Transparency in Government

• Obama's Administration Continues Its Record of Criminal Cases Against "Leakers", Brian Doherty, January 24, 2012
• The New York Times Is Suing the DOJ Over the Assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, Mike Riggs, December 21, 2011
• VP Attends Closed Door Meeting on Transparency, Katherine Mangu-Ward, November 17, 2011
• Holder Nixes Rule Telling Agencies to Lie About FOIA Records, Jacob Sullum, November 3, 2011
• File Not Found, Jacob Sullum, November 2, 2011
• Proposed FOIA Update: Government Should Be Allowed to Pretend Records Don't Exist, Lucy Steigerwald, October 25, 2011
• Uppity Young Geek Steals Legitimately Downloads Millions of Documents. Again., Katherine Mangu-Ward, July 20, 2011
• Reason.tv: The Killing of Allen Kephart - How the police lost the trust of a law-and-order town, Tim Cavanaugh & Paul Detrick, July 5, 2011
• Transparency Advocate and Former Obama Adviser on "Our Untransparent President", Matt Welch, June 27, 2011
• Reason on TV: Epstein, Judge Napolitano on Reporters Being Arrested for Having Cameras at Public Meetings, June 23, 2011
• "I really believe Assange is disturbed", Mike Riggs, May 12, 2011
• Why Did It Take 10 Years to Get Osama bin Laden?, Tim Cavanaugh, May 2, 2011
• What Are California Cities Hiding?, Tim Cavanaugh, April 26, 2011
• Mike Huckabee's (Hard) Drive, Radley Balko, April 4, 2011
• Obama: Sunshine Superman or Lex Luthor of Open Gov't?, Nick Gillespie, March 17, 2011
• Is Julian Assange a Journalist?, Jacob Sullum, April 2011
• Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Government: Love the Twitter, Hate the Tweet, Brian Doherty, February 16, 2011
• Another Kind of Tip Jar, Jesse Walker, January 27, 2011
• Justice for Sal, Radley Balko, January 17, 2011
• WikiLeaks as Haiku vs. Rumsfeld as Free Verse, Katherine Mangu-Ward, January 3, 2011
• Deroy Murdock, Wikileaks, and the Danziger Bridge, Radley Balko, December 19, 2010
• Obama's Disappointing Record on Transparency, Matt Welch, December 13, 2010
• Joe Lieberman: When People Commit Crimes, They Must Be Prosecuted. Unless They Work for the Government, Radley Balko, December 10, 2010
• Leaker Calls on Leaker to Leak the WikiLeaks Story, Jesse Walker, December 3, 2010
• Smart Takes on Wikileaks, Radley Balko, December 1, 2010
• Wikileaks: Sharif Don't Like it, Either, Matt Welch, November 29, 2010
• Cheap Booze, Cheaper Congressmen, Katherine Mangu-Ward, September 29, 2010
• Obama Warns That Corporations Are Taking Over While Insisting They Do Not Have the Power to Do So, Jacob Sullum, September 20, 2010
• Reason Morning Links: Two Elections and a Diaspora, Jesse Walker, September 20, 2010
• Two Reasons The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles Sucks, Nick Gillespie, September 2, 2010
• Putting a Partisan Legal Advocate in Charge of White House Transparency, Matt Welch, August 13, 2010
• Reason Morning Links: Parking Prices, a Border Bill, and the Big Baby Conspiracy, Jesse Walker, August 13, 2010
• Name That Bill!, Jacob Sullum, August 11, 2010
• Reason Morning Links: From Cambodia to Las Vegas, Jesse Walker, July 26, 2010
• Reason Morning Links: Photoshop, FOIAs, and the Rivers of Babylon, Jesse Walker, July 23, 2010
• "My soul ... is terrifying", Matt Welch, June 23, 2010
• Reason.tv: Porker of The Month (June 2010) – Sen. Richard Shelby, Who Made Pigs Fly in Outer Space!, June 22, 2010
• Another Marylander Arrested for Recording the Police, Radley Balko, June 21, 2010
• Secret Watchdogs, Jesse Walker, June 17, 2010
• Girl-Punching (and Cop-Taping) in Seattle, Matt Welch, June 17, 2010
• "There's No Transparency, and I Find that Inexcusable", Radley Balko, June 14, 2010
• Legislator Posts Votes on Facebook. All of Them., Katherine Mangu-Ward, May 28, 2010
• Government Backslides on Agriculture-Subsidies Transparency, Matt Welch, May 24, 2010
• Another Area Where Obama Is Even Less Transparent Than Bush, Jesse Walker, May 20, 2010
• Reason on The TV: Katherine Mangu-Ward Talks Open Government on TVOntario, May 5, 2010
• Why Cities Are Broke (They Spend Too Much!), Chapter XXVIII (in an Infinite Series), Nick Gillespie, May 3, 2010
• Keeping An Eye On Earmarks, April 13, 2010
• Reason.tv: You Want Political Freedom? There's an App For That., April 6, 2010
• Why the iPad is the iFad or, DIY WTF?, Nick Gillespie, April 6, 2010
• The NoVa Police Blackout, Radley Balko, April 5, 2010
• What Is a Day in Obama's Eyes?, Jacob Sullum, March 22, 2010
• But Can They Vote 'Present'?, Jacob Sullum, March 18, 2010
• Dig In!, Jacob Sullum, March 18, 2010
• Public=Online, Katherine Mangu-Ward, March 18, 2010
• It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word 'Many' Is, Jacob Sullum, March 18, 2010
• Serve the Servants, Especially When They Have Server Issues, Matt Welch, March 16, 2010
• As Congress Gets Set to Yap & Maybe Even Ban Some Earmarks, Check Out Where DC Insiders Party on Your Dime, Nick Gillespie, March 11, 2010
• Top Government Websites for Transparency, Radley Balko, March 10, 2010
• Reason.tv: Pork Party House: Where DC insiders go for tax-subsidized fun!, March 9, 2010
• Here's Your Earmark. On a Completely Unrelated Matter..., Jacob Sullum, March 5, 2010
• They're Not Necessarily Jobs, and They Weren't Necessarily Created or Saved, but We Gave These Guys Money, and They Gave Us Some Numbers, Jacob Sullum, February 3, 2010
• Presidential Promises and Pretenses, Jacob Sullum, February 3, 2010
• 'The American People Don't Care About Process', Jacob Sullum, February 1, 2010
• Well, at Least the State of the Union Address Was Televised on C-SPAN, Jacob Sullum, January 28, 2010
• Live C-SPAN Coverage vs. Pass Now, Explain Later, Jacob Sullum, January 27, 2010
• The New Transparency, Jacob Sullum, January 25, 2010
• Reason Morning Links: The U.S. Helps China, Pirates Help Haiti, Ellie Light Helps Her President, Jesse Walker, January 25, 2010
• 'Why Fill Out the Forms?', Jacob Sullum, January 19, 2010
• Obama's Transparency Outlook: Still Hazy, Jacob Sullum, January 5, 2010
• Ron Paul on Ben Bernanke as Time's Man of The Year: Not Evil Per Se, But Head of an Evil System, Nick Gillespie, December 16, 2009