Free Speech/First Amendment

• Is Advocating the Paleo Diet Against the Law? A New Institute for Justice Suit Stands Up For Free Speech Against Occupational Licensing Law, Brian Doherty, May 29, 2012
• Reason "Hero of Freedom" Larry Flynt's Latest Stunt? Photoshopping a Penis into Mouth of Conservative Pundit S.E. Cupp, Nick Gillespie, May 24, 2012
• How in the World Did a Case About Speech Restrictions Become a Battle Over Government Censorship?, Jacob Sullum, May 22, 2012
• Jacob Sullum Discusses the Right to Record Cops on RT, May 18, 2012
• George Soros: Only My Interests Are Public, Jacob Sullum, May 11, 2012
• 7th Circuit Orders Injunction Against Illinois Ban on Recording Cops, Jacob Sullum, May 8, 2012
• What Makes a Horror Movie Intolerable in Canada?, Jacob Sullum, May 8, 2012
• WashTimes Writer Complains That "half-white Barack Obama....didn't say a word" About the Death of Beastie Boy Adam "MCA" Yauch, Matt Welch, May 7, 2012
• How Dharun Ravi's Prosecutors Turned a Minor, Nonviolent Offense Into a Felony Subject to a 10-Year Prison Sentence, Jacob Sullum, May 2, 2012
• 'Shock Artist' Could Get 25 Years for Offending Federal Prosecutors, Jacob Sullum, May 1, 2012
• Does the First Amendment Cover the Right to “Like” Something on Facebook?, Damon W. Root, April 30, 2012
• In Alabama, They Like Their Bastards Fat and Arrogant, but Not Dirty, Jacob Sullum, April 24, 2012
• Blogging About the Paleo Diet Can Get You Shut Down in North Carolina, Brian Doherty, April 23, 2012
• Judge Rules That Advocating Jury Nullification Is Not a Crime, Jacob Sullum, April 20, 2012
• FCC Asks SCOTUS to Reinstate CBS Nip Slip Fine, Jacob Sullum, April 18, 2012
• How Long Will Nicholas Kristof Continue to Profit From Sex Trafficking?, Jacob Sullum, April 12, 2012
• No "Obscene, Lewd or Profane" Language? There Goes Twitter, J.D. Tuccille, April 3, 2012
• L.A. City Hall Singles Out Anti-L.A. City Hall Radio Program for Racism, Sexism, and Insufficient Workplace Diversity, Matt Welch, March 26, 2012
• Reason Writers Around Town: Brian Doherty on Pajamas Media's PJTV's Front Page, Brian Doherty, March 23, 2012
• An Atheist Billboard in Brooklyn, Anthony L. Fisher & Kennedy, March 23, 2012
• Going to Canada? Leave Your Comic Books at Home., Jacob Sullum, March 22, 2012
• Was Nicholas Kristof's Story About an Underage Prostitute Peddled on Backpage.com 'Concocted'?, Jacob Sullum, March 21, 2012
• Does Tyler Clementi's Suicide Prove Dharun Ravi Is a Bigot?, Jacob Sullum, March 20, 2012
• 6th Circuit Approves Cigarette Warning Labels and Suppression of Risk Information but Rejects Ad Limits, Jacob Sullum, March 19, 2012
• Did Dharun Ravi Commit a Hateless Hate Crime?, Jacob Sullum, March 16, 2012
• DFW Readers: Hear Me Talk About Loony Liquor Laws, Jacob Sullum, March 15, 2012
• When Is Quoting Van Halen a Crime?, Jacob Sullum, March 14, 2012
• Is Dharun Ravi Guilty of 'Bias Intimidation'?, Jacob Sullum, March 14, 2012
• Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem: Rush Limbaugh “is not constitutionally entitled to the people’s airways”, Damon W. Root, March 13, 2012
• Unions and Democrats: Labor’s Love Lost, Tim Cavanaugh, March 11, 2012
• With 12 Beholders, You Just Need One to Say It Might Be Art, Jacob Sullum, March 9, 2012
• Who Will Save the Poor Incumbents From the Super PAC Onslaught?, Jacob Sullum, March 8, 2012
• Debating Hate Crime Laws With Thom Hartmann, Jacob Sullum, March 7, 2012
• Porn So Icky That It Can't Be Obscene, Jacob Sullum, March 5, 2012
• Illinois Judge Says Eavesdropping Law Is Unconstitutional, Jacob Sullum, March 2, 2012
• Does H.R. 347 Change Anything About Your Right to Protest Politicians Under Secret Service Protection? It's All In the Word Change., Lucy Steigerwald, March 1, 2012
• Bill Passes House: Protests Near Secret Service Protected Folk Effectively Outlawed, Brian Doherty, March 1, 2012
• Federal Judge Says the Government Can't Use Cigarette Packages for Anti-Smoking Propaganda, Jacob Sullum, March 1, 2012
• Can Lesbians Commit an Anti-Gay Hate Crime?, Jacob Sullum, February 27, 2012
• How Dharun Ravi Could Get 10 Years for Expressing Unapproved Views, Jacob Sullum, February 27, 2012
• The Not-Really-Fleeting Expletive That Wasn't Bleeped at Last Night's Oscars, Matt Welch, February 27, 2012
• Drug Paraphernalia Raids Make Books Disappear, Jacob Sullum, February 23, 2012
• Where Do I Go to Get Back My Valor?, Jacob Sullum, February 22, 2012
• Free Speech? Ya right: Mitch McConnell Is a Poopy-head!, Matt Welch, February 17, 2012
• How Super PACs Are Good for Democracy and Transparency, Jacob Sullum, February 15, 2012
• Montana Supreme Court Ignores Citizens United. Will the U.S. Supreme Court Set It Straight?, Damon W. Root, February 10, 2012
• Obama Leads All Candidates With Ooodles of Campaign Money; Pledges to Let Rich Friends Raise Even More, Nick Gillespie, February 9, 2012
• Dan Abrams on 'the Media's Shameful, Inexcusable Distortion' of Citizens United, Jacob Sullum, February 8, 2012
• Another Example of How New York Cops Make Their Own Law, Jacob Sullum, February 8, 2012
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt Teams With ACLU to Promote Your Right to Photograph Cops, Mike Riggs, February 7, 2012
• Why Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Joke Falls Flat, Jacob Sullum, February 3, 2012
• New Jersey Legislators Get a Chance to Fix the First Amendment Problems With Their Anti-Bullying Law, Jacob Sullum, February 2, 2012
• Reason.tv Replay: 3 Reasons Not to Get Worked Up Over Super PACS, Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg, January 28, 2012
• Superstar 1st Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams on Why Free Speech is an All or Nothing Deal, Nick Gillespie, January 28, 2012
• Is Backpage Responsible for Kidnapping and Rape?, Jacob Sullum, January 26, 2012
• Police Charge Canadian Blogger With Criminal Libel...for Criticizing the Police, Jacob Sullum, January 26, 2012
• 9th Circuit Sees No Anti-Corruption Rationale for Limiting Contributions to Recall Campaigns, Jacob Sullum, January 20, 2012
• The Controversial Ron Paul: The GOP and Assange, Israel and the NDAA, Brian Doherty, January 19, 2012
• People Are Indeed People, and Their Right to Talk About Politics Is Guaranteed by the First Amendment, Jacob Sullum, January 19, 2012
• David Harsanyi on Fighting Money in Politics, January 18, 2012
• Some Views on SOPA & PIPA, Nick Gillespie, January 18, 2012
• Liberal Nullification Watch: Montana Supreme Court vs. Citizens United, Damon W. Root, January 13, 2012
• The Rap Against Super PACs, Jacob Sullum, January 12, 2012
• Obama Administration Lost Big at the Supreme Court, Damon W. Root, January 11, 2012
• Can 'Scarcity' Justify the FCC's TV Censorship?, Jacob Sullum, January 11, 2012
• Four Years After Busting a Guy for Recording an Arrest, Boston Police Admit They Should Not Have Done That, Jacob Sullum, January 11, 2012
• SCOTUS Seems Inclined to Overturn the FCC's Indecency Policy, but Not the Decision That Authorized It, Jacob Sullum, January 10, 2012
• Morality in Media Suggests Another Reason to Vote Against Romney, Santorum, and Gingrich, Jacob Sullum, January 9, 2012
• How Big a Friend of Free Speech Is the Roberts Court?, Jacob Sullum, January 9, 2012
• Why Shouldn’t Point Break Auteur Kathryn Bigelow Get the Same Respect as a Journalist?, Tim Cavanaugh, January 6, 2012