Free Speech

Policy

Dharun Ravi's Thought Crimes

The Tyler Clementi case shows how hate crime laws punish opinion.

Jacob Sullum | 2.29.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Freedom of Religion vs. Freedom from Religion

If churches want to be left alone, they should stop begging alms of the government.

Ronald Bailey | 2.28.2012 4:45 PM

Policy

Can Lesbians Commit an Anti-Gay Hate Crime?

Jacob Sullum | 2.27.2012 3:50 PM

Policy

How Dharun Ravi Could Get 10 Years for Expressing Unapproved Views

Jacob Sullum | 2.27.2012 12:17 PM

Civil Liberties

The Not-Really-Fleeting Expletive That Wasn't Bleeped at Last Night's Oscars

Matt Welch | 2.27.2012 11:14 AM

Civil Liberties

Is It Progress When the Price on Salman Rushdie's Head Declines by $5.2 Million?

Nick Gillespie | 2.24.2012 8:58 AM

Policy

Drug Paraphernalia Raids Make Books Disappear

Jacob Sullum | 2.23.2012 1:53 PM

Politics

Where Do I Go to Get Back My Valor?

Jacob Sullum | 2.22.2012 3:57 PM

Politics

Free Speech? Ya right: Mitch McConnell Is a Poopy-head!

Matt Welch | 2.17.2012 12:41 PM

Politics

How Super PACs Are Good for Democracy and Transparency

Jacob Sullum | 2.15.2012 3:45 PM

Politics

Trial Begins for the Hutaree Militia

Brian Doherty | 2.14.2012 2:45 PM

Civil Liberties

Blasphemous Saudi Tweeter Has Been Deported, Supporters Could Be Punished

Nick Sibilla | 2.13.2012 4:29 PM

Politics

Montana Supreme Court Ignores Citizens United. Will the U.S. Supreme Court Set It Straight?

Damon Root | 2.10.2012 3:14 PM

Civil Liberties

Saudi Writer Could Be Executed for Blasphemous Tweets

Nick Sibilla | 2.10.2012 10:05 AM

Civil Liberties

"This is a sad case of the South Korean authorities' complete failure to understand sarcasm."

Lucy Steigerwald | 2.9.2012 4:38 PM

Politics

Obama Leads All Candidates With Ooodles of Campaign Money; Pledges to Let Rich Friends Raise Even More

Nick Gillespie | 2.9.2012 9:35 AM

Politics

Dan Abrams on 'the Media's Shameful, Inexcusable Distortion' of Citizens United

Jacob Sullum | 2.8.2012 5:02 PM

Politics

Another Example of How New York Cops Make Their Own Law

Jacob Sullum | 2.8.2012 1:01 PM

Policy

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Teams With ACLU to Promote Your Right to Photograph Cops

Mike Riggs | 2.7.2012 12:53 PM

Politics

Why Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Joke Falls Flat

Jacob Sullum | 2.3.2012 6:06 PM

Politics

New Jersey Legislators Get a Chance to Fix the First Amendment Problems With Their Anti-Bullying Law

Jacob Sullum | 2.2.2012 1:17 PM

Politics

Reason.tv Replay: 3 Reasons Not to Get Worked Up Over Super PACS

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 1.28.2012 11:25 AM

Politics

Superstar 1st Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams on Why Free Speech is an All or Nothing Deal

Nick Gillespie | 1.28.2012 9:35 AM

Politics

"If the First Amendment means anything, then school officials cannot prohibit students from handing out gifts with Christmas messages due to the religious content of those messages."

Damon Root | 1.27.2012 4:58 PM

Civil Liberties

Attn: New York Reasonoids! Come See a Benefit Reading of Václav Havel's The Memorandum Tonight!

Matt Welch | 1.27.2012 3:30 PM

Policy

Is Backpage Responsible for Kidnapping and Rape?

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2012 4:24 PM

Politics

Police Charge Canadian Blogger With Criminal Libel…for Criticizing the Police

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2012 1:41 PM

Civil Liberties

Salman in No Rush to Die….

Shikha Dalmia | 1.20.2012 8:05 PM

Politics

9th Circuit Sees No Anti-Corruption Rationale for Limiting Contributions to Recall Campaigns

Jacob Sullum | 1.20.2012 4:15 PM

Politics

The Controversial Ron Paul: The GOP and Assange, Israel and the NDAA

Brian Doherty | 1.19.2012 7:45 PM

Politics

People Are Indeed People, and Their Right to Talk About Politics Is Guaranteed by the First Amendment

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2012 11:37 AM

Politics

David Harsanyi on Fighting Money in Politics

Reason Staff | 1.18.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

Some Views on SOPA & PIPA

Nick Gillespie | 1.18.2012 9:48 AM

Politics

The Vain Crusade to Purify Politics

How misguided efforts to prevent corruption gave us the pretense of "independent" campaign spending.

Jacob Sullum | 1.18.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Liberal Nullification Watch: Montana Supreme Court vs. Citizens United

Damon Root | 1.13.2012 11:44 AM

Politics

The Rap Against Super PACs

Jacob Sullum | 1.12.2012 7:36 PM

Politics

Urinegate; Binge Drinking; Foreclosures Up; $1.2 Trillion Loan; and More: PM Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.12.2012 5:24 PM

Civil Liberties

Rushdie: Still Hounded After All These Years

Shikha Dalmia | 1.11.2012 8:51 PM

Politics

Obama Administration Lost Big at the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 1.11.2012 6:24 PM

Politics

Can 'Scarcity' Justify the FCC's TV Censorship?

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2012 3:33 PM

Politics

Four Years After Busting a Guy for Recording an Arrest, Boston Police Admit They Should Not Have Done That

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2012 1:14 PM

Policy

Toddler to Say Fuck on Delightful Family Sitcom Next Week; Nuclear Clock Now Even Closer to Midnight

Nick Gillespie | 1.11.2012 10:13 AM

Politics

The FCC's Incomprehensible Ban on Broadcast Indecency

The Supreme Court examines TV censorship.

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

SCOTUS Seems Inclined to Overturn the FCC's Indecency Policy, but Not the Decision That Authorized It

Jacob Sullum | 1.10.2012 6:02 PM

Politics

Why Liberals Favor Campaign Season Censorship

If people can be totally convinced by a few campaign ads, then the real objection is not advertising-but democracy itself.

A. Barton Hinkle | 1.10.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Protecting Venice Beach From Boardwalk Commerce, Protecting Free Speech by Banning T-Shirts

Matt Welch | 1.10.2012 11:25 AM