Free Speech

Policy

Separation of Church and Second Amendment?

Seth McKelvey | 10.11.2011 10:15 AM

Politics

Silencing John Lewis Is What Democracy Looks Like

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.10.2011 7:28 PM

Policy

Cannabis Candy Leaves Sour Taste in Drug Warriors' Mouths

Jacob Sullum | 10.10.2011 3:07 PM

Civil Liberties

New York State Senators Who Want to Outlaw Cyberbullying Hopefully Just Trolling

Lucy Steigerwald | 10.5.2011 6:45 PM

Politics

Jonathan Chait's Latest Libertarian Fever Dream

Matt Welch | 10.5.2011 4:10 PM

Civil Liberties

"My client will not be bullied out of exercising his First Amendment right to make clear his belief that your client is a spoiled, brainless twit who is cheapening the political discourse in this country"

Mike Riggs | 10.5.2011 12:28 PM

Civil Liberties

Hank Williams Jr. To Return Award From Institute for Football Preparedness

Nick Gillespie | 10.4.2011 10:53 AM

Politics

Occupy Wall Street: Ghosts of Seattle '99 and Nader 2000?

Matt Welch | 10.3.2011 3:54 PM

Politics

American Jobs Act Features Sop to Unemployees

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.30.2011 9:11 PM

Science & Technology

The Murder of a Mexican Journalist and Social Media's Mixed Blessings

Tate Watkins | 9.30.2011 3:25 PM

Politics

Freedom of the Press Belongs to Everyone

Jacob Sullum | 9.28.2011 11:34 AM

Politics

Off the Record

The Illinois Eavesdropping Act shields public officials from public scrutiny.

Jacob Sullum | 9.28.2011 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

The Clear and Present Danger Posed by Space Captains

Jacob Sullum | 9.26.2011 1:53 PM

Politics

The Chilling Power of Incredible Defamation Claims

Jacob Sullum | 9.22.2011 7:10 PM

Politics

San Juan Capistrano Fines Family for Reading Bible without Permit

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.21.2011 10:31 PM

Politics

Judge Rejects Eavesdropping Charges for Recording Police

Jacob Sullum | 9.20.2011 4:17 PM

Politics

Update on Arthur Alan Wolk's Lawsuit Against Reason

Jacob Sullum | 9.19.2011 5:18 PM

Police

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 9.18.2011 7:36 PM

Politics

Judge Posner Fears 'Snooping Around by Reporters and Bloggers' If People Are Allowed to Record the Police

Jacob Sullum | 9.14.2011 6:47 PM

Politics

The Evolution of Liberty

A discussion about brain, belief, and politics

Ronald Bailey | 9.13.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Arianna Huffington's 9/13 Spirit

Matt Welch | 9.12.2011 3:53 PM

Policy

Renton Police Drop Cyberstalking Investigation of Cartoon Creator, Pursue Harassment Claim Instead

Jacob Sullum | 9.7.2011 3:30 PM

Politics

Judges Don't Need Roe to Overturn Abortion Laws

Jacob Sullum | 9.7.2011 11:55 AM

Politics

Quick! Call the Regulators! Those People Are Buying Gold!

Matt Welch | 8.31.2011 9:38 AM

Politics

"What do you think of interracial marriage? It would be hard, offhand, to think of a question less relevant to libertarianism"

Matt Welch | 8.30.2011 2:04 PM

Politics

Does Angie's List Have a Section for Lawyers? Online Review Leads to Libel Suit

Nick Gillespie | 8.29.2011 9:19 AM

Policy

Reading Is Fundamentally Forbidden

Prison Legal News fights for the First Amendment at South Carolina's Berkeley County Detention Center.

Greg Beato | 8.25.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

The AFL-CIO, Citizens United, Super PACs, & What a Difference a Couple Years Make

Nick Gillespie | 8.23.2011 12:31 PM

Local Government

Brickbats

Charles Oliver | 8.21.2011 6:31 PM

Civil Liberties

Judge: Racy High School Slumber Party Photos Posted to Facebook May Not Be "Important" or "Worthwhile," But They're Still Protected Speech

Peter Suderman | 8.18.2011 3:01 PM

Politics

There's a Hashtag Goin' On

Jesse Walker | 8.11.2011 3:02 PM

Politics

"What Citizens United Didn't Say"

Matt Welch | 8.9.2011 10:46 AM

Politics

Now That Only Two of Them Are Still Living (If You Can Call it Living), Cubans Can Finally Meet the Beatles

Nick Gillespie | 8.9.2011 8:56 AM

Politics

Renton, Washington: Where Cartoons Are a Bigger Offense Than Gross Abuses of Police Power

Jacob Sullum | 8.5.2011 12:25 PM

Politics

'The Department Does Not Like Laundry Being Aired in Public'

Jacob Sullum | 8.4.2011 3:30 PM

Policy

NY State Senator Not Quite Sure Which Constitutional Amendment Doesn't Apply When Parents Go Looking for Guns in Their Daughters' Jewelry Boxes

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.3.2011 5:20 PM

Politics

Texas Appeals Court Rejects Developer's Defamation Claims

Jacob Sullum | 7.26.2011 4:10 PM

Politics

Stanford So Smart Even Its Rapists Are Logical

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.21.2011 3:50 PM

Policy

Is It the FCC's Fault If Parents Don't Know What Their Kids Are Watching?

Peter Suderman | 7.21.2011 11:26 AM

Civil Liberties

Jewish Groups Speak Out Against Israel's Speech-Killing Boycott Law

Hannah Burak | 7.20.2011 4:38 PM

Politics

California Court Says Child Porn Requires Real Children

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 3:56 PM

Politics

Arkansas Town Bans Organizations Lest They Cause 'Discourse'

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 2:46 PM

Civil Liberties

Sometimes the Headline Says it All

Matt Welch | 7.19.2011 4:01 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on The Alyona Show: Matt Welch Talks Morgan Freeman, Herman Cain, and TSA Nipple-Twisting

Reason Staff | 7.19.2011 12:46 PM

Civil Liberties

Fundamentalists vs. the First Amendment

Stop worrying about Shariah. Christian fanatics are the ones using the government to restrict individual liberty.

A. Barton Hinkle | 7.19.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

8th Circuit Says St. Louis Must Tolerate Conspicuous Criticism

Jacob Sullum | 7.18.2011 3:21 PM

Politics

Fear of a Muslim America

In the fight against radical Islam, conservatives are trying to limit the property and speech rights of peaceful American Muslims.

Cathy Young | 7.18.2011 12:00 PM