Free Speech

Civil Liberties

Did the West Liberate Kuwait So It Could Execute Anyone Who Insults God or Mohammed? The Answer May Appall You.

Nick Gillespie | 4.14.2012 3:46 PM

Policy

How Long Will Nicholas Kristof Continue to Profit From Sex Trafficking?

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 1:31 PM

Civil Liberties

Stop Cyberbullying Your Masters!

J.D. Tuccille | 4.11.2012 1:56 PM

Civil Liberties

Baseball Morality: You Can Lie to the Taxpayers You Steal Money From, But Just Don't You Go Talking About Fidel Castro!

Matt Welch | 4.10.2012 2:28 PM

Politics

U.S. Not Allowing Pakistani Drone Lawyer Into Country

Ed Krayewski | 4.10.2012 1:10 PM

Policy

When Losers Write History

Why legacy-newspaper media reporters get their own industry so wrong

Matt Welch | 4.8.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

7 Rules for Recording Police

Courts are expanding rights but cops are cracking down. Find out how to keep your footage, and yourself, out of trouble.

Steve Silverman | 4.5.2012 1:30 PM

Civil Liberties

No "Obscene, Lewd or Profane" Language? There Goes Twitter

J.D. Tuccille | 4.3.2012 5:15 PM

Policy

Do You Have a Free Speech Right to Heckle Athletes, Coaches, and Referees at Publicly Financed Stadiums?

Matt Welch | 3.29.2012 12:10 PM

Policy

12 Colleges that Suck When it Comes to Free Speech. Does Your Alma Mater Make the Grade?

Nick Gillespie | 3.27.2012 2:55 PM

Civil Liberties

L.A. City Hall Singles Out Anti-L.A. City Hall Radio Program for Racism, Sexism, and Insufficient Workplace Diversity

Matt Welch | 3.26.2012 4:06 PM

Politics

The Freakin' FCC

The increasingly incomprehensible ban on broadcast indecency

Jacob Sullum | 3.26.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Brian Doherty on Pajamas Media's PJTV's Front Page

Brian Doherty | 3.23.2012 8:33 PM

Civil Liberties

An Atheist Billboard in Brooklyn

Anthony Fisher | 3.23.2012 1:59 PM

Policy

Going to Canada? Leave Your Comic Books at Home.

Jacob Sullum | 3.22.2012 6:17 PM

Policy

Was Nicholas Kristof's Story About an Underage Prostitute Peddled on Backpage.com 'Concocted'?

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 7:03 PM

Policy

Dharun Ravi's Hateless Hate Crime

A jury blames Dharun Ravi for his dead roommate's imagined feelings.

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Does Tyler Clementi's Suicide Prove Dharun Ravi Is a Bigot?

Jacob Sullum | 3.20.2012 4:42 PM

Policy

6th Circuit Approves Cigarette Warning Labels and Suppression of Risk Information but Rejects Ad Limits

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2012 6:56 PM

Politics

Five Ways Citizens United Is Making Politics Better

The controversial 2010 Supreme Court ruling is already bringing us more competitive campaigns, funnier ads and greater freedom of speech.

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.17.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Five Ways Citizens United Is Making Politics Better

The controversial 2010 Supreme Court ruling is already bringing us more competitive campaigns, funnier ads and greater freedom of speech.

Reason Staff | 3.17.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Is Jason Russell's Hysterical Naked Madness Good for Kony?

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.16.2012 9:50 PM

Culture

Kony 2012 Narrator Detained for "Masturbating in Public" (Updated)

Nick Sibilla | 3.16.2012 4:34 PM

Policy

Did Dharun Ravi Commit a Hateless Hate Crime?

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2012 4:25 PM

Politics

Dharun Ravi Found Guilty on Most Charges

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.16.2012 1:04 PM

Civil Liberties

Reason Writers Around Town: Jesse Walker on "Doonesbury," in Newsday

Matt Welch | 3.16.2012 8:46 AM

Politics

Joseph Kony is a Terrorist

Nick Sibilla | 3.15.2012 12:59 PM

Policy

DFW Readers: Hear Me Talk About Loony Liquor Laws

Jacob Sullum | 3.15.2012 11:52 AM

Politics

When Is Quoting Van Halen a Crime?

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2012 3:33 PM

Policy

Is Dharun Ravi Guilty of 'Bias Intimidation'?

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2012 12:11 PM

Politics

Why Super PACs Are Good for Democracy

Wealthy super PAC donors make politics more competitive.

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem: Rush Limbaugh "is not constitutionally entitled to the people's airways"

Damon Root | 3.13.2012 5:20 PM

Politics

Invisible Children, Invisible Finances? Kony 2012 Creators Stonewall Critics

Nick Sibilla | 3.13.2012 3:58 PM

Politics

Unions and Democrats: Labor's Love Lost

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.11.2012 10:22 PM

Politics

Atheism Is a Religion

Or at least it requires a God for you not to believe in.

Kennedy | 3.10.2012 10:00 AM

Politics

A Guide to Joseph Kony and the Backlash Against Invisible Children

Nick Sibilla | 3.9.2012 12:30 PM

Policy

With 12 Beholders, You Just Need One to Say It Might Be Art

Jacob Sullum | 3.9.2012 12:26 PM

Politics

Who Will Save the Poor Incumbents From the Super PAC Onslaught?

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2012 3:38 PM

Politics

Among the Nonbelievers: Part II

Atheist activists in Orlando talk John Locke, religious toleration, presidential politics, and Don't Ask, But Do Tell.

Ronald Bailey | 3.8.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Among the Nonbelievers

Atheist activists in Orlando talk separation of church and state, sick kids, and Evil God.

Ronald Bailey | 3.7.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Debating Hate Crime Laws With Thom Hartmann

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2012 4:09 PM

Policy

Porn So Icky That It Can't Be Obscene

Jacob Sullum | 3.5.2012 3:56 PM

Politics

Islam, Free Speech, and Democracy

What really happened in the Pennsylvania "zombie Mohammed" case?

Cathy Young | 3.3.2012 9:00 AM

Politics

Illinois Judge Says Eavesdropping Law Is Unconstitutional

Jacob Sullum | 3.2.2012 6:13 PM

Politics

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 | 3.1.2012 7:48 PM

Politics

Department of Homeland Security Gives Occupy Wall Street the "Rightwing Extremist" Treatment

Mike Riggs | 3.1.2012 3:30 PM