Free Speech

Politics

License to Ill

Does the First Amendment cover vanity license plates?

David Harsanyi | 4.29.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Upholds the FCC's New Indecency Rules

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2009 4:01 PM

Policy

Re-Education Residence Halls at the University of Delaware

Nick Gillespie | 4.28.2009 10:57 AM

Politics

The Anti-Man-Eat-Dog Act

Jacob Sullum | 4.23.2009 7:25 PM

Civil Liberties

Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee

Mau-mauing controversial speech at Umass-Amherst

Cathy Young | 4.23.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

Because It's Been a While Since Any of My Lazy Colleagues Have Blogged And an Even Longer Time Since We Had Any Cheesecake Up at Hit & Run, Here's Something About Miss Kalifornia's Gay Marriage Stance…

Nick Gillespie | 4.21.2009 3:05 PM

Policy

And When They Came For Tofu Lovers, I Did Nothing Because I Was Busy Standing In Line For My Own Vanity License Plates…

Nick Gillespie | 4.21.2009 7:30 AM

Civil Liberties

What Part of "Congress Shall Pass No Law" Don't You Understand, Pt. 472

Matt Welch | 4.20.2009 11:39 AM

Policy

Federal Prosecutor Tries to Silence Drug Policy Activist (Again)

Jacob Sullum | 4.17.2009 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

VA Officials Seize Reporter's Equipment

Radley Balko | 4.9.2009 11:00 PM

Civil Liberties

A Radical Takes the Stand

Ward "Little Eichmanns" Churchill wants his job back.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.6.2009 4:30 PM

Politics

Felonious Advocacy

Thanks to campaign finance reform, activists can go to jail if their movie makes a politician look bad.

Jacob Sullum | 4.1.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Criticism of Politicians Is Not Defamation, Even If You Use the D-Word

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2009 2:51 PM

Civil Liberties

An Annoying Law

Free speech in Michigan

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2009 12:59 PM

Civil Liberties

Leave Allah Alone!

Free speech at the U.N.

Ronald Bailey | 3.30.2009 12:14 PM

Politics

The Fifth Element

Does Justice Anthony Kennedy practice a "modestly libertarian" jurisprudence?

Damon Root | 3.27.2009 4:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Newspaper Bailout Update

Matt Welch | 3.20.2009 9:57 AM

Policy

Extreme Associates Obscenity Case Ends in Guilty Pleas

Jacob Sullum | 3.18.2009 5:11 PM

Policy

Eighteen Months per Shoe

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2009 12:28 PM

Civil Liberties

The Grass-Mud Horse vs. the River Crab

Jacob Sullum | 3.13.2009 5:34 PM

Politics

The "Special Duties and Responsibilities" of Freedom

Michael Moynihan | 3.3.2009 3:51 PM

Civil Liberties

Who's Harassed Now?

Sexual politics in California

Matt Welch | 2.27.2009 9:01 AM

Civil Liberties

Soothsayer Speech

No fortunetelling ban

Brian Doherty | 2.27.2009 7:54 AM

Civil Liberties

The Right Not to be Offended?

Even offensive speech deserves protection

David Harsanyi | 2.25.2009 4:30 PM

Politics

Take Two Tablets, Take 2

Jacob Sullum | 2.25.2009 2:31 PM

Politics

Censorship and Double Standards

The United Kingdom's selective intolerance of free speech

Michael Moynihan | 2.18.2009 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Obama: No Fairness Doctrine For Me

Matt Welch | 2.18.2009 2:49 PM

Civil Liberties

'Pornography Advocate at DOJ': One of the Bright Spots in the Obama Administration

Jacob Sullum | 2.13.2009 2:29 PM

Civil Liberties

Walesa Banned, Wilders Detained

Michael Moynihan | 2.12.2009 7:19 PM

Politics

Now at Reason.tv: Freedom of Expression in the Age of Obama

Reason Staff | 2.11.2009 4:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Rules for Radicals: UK Edition

Michael Moynihan | 2.10.2009 6:24 PM

Civil Liberties

Reason.tv at Sundance: The Most Famous Flag Burner of Them All

Nick Gillespie | 2.2.2009 1:47 PM

Policy

Limiting Free Speech in Holland

Michael Moynihan | 1.30.2009 7:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Reason.tv at Sundance: Shouting Fire!—First Amendment Attorney Martin Garbus on Free Speech Under Obama

Reason Staff | 1.29.2009 4:30 PM

Politics

The Bulldozer and the Bully

Jacob Sullum | 1.27.2009 3:36 PM

Politics

Do Contribution Limits Reduce Corruption?

Jacob Sullum | 1.23.2009 12:07 PM

Politics

Coping Without COPA

Jacob Sullum | 1.22.2009 10:59 AM

Civil Liberties

Are Neo-Nazi Nincompoops Automatically Unfit Parents?

Jacob Sullum | 1.16.2009 3:24 PM

Civil Liberties

A European Model for U.S. Newspapers?

Matt Welch | 1.16.2009 9:31 AM

Civil Liberties

He Tried Using the Fourth, But It Was Full of Holes

Radley Balko | 1.14.2009 12:07 AM

Civil Liberties

"The time is ripe for rethinking the First Amendment as a positive call for non-market support of a meaningful journalism"

Matt Welch | 1.12.2009 6:33 PM

Politics

Assorted Reactions to Cass Sunstein's Appointment as Obama's Regulation Czar Head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs

Matt Welch | 1.12.2009 10:03 AM

Politics

Kitten Crush? Is That Like Puppy Love?

Jacob Sullum | 1.9.2009 12:03 PM

Politics

Washington Metro Area Transit Authority Goes After Flex Your Rights

Mike Riggs | 1.8.2009 12:38 PM

Civil Liberties

Where Presidents Meddle With Your Television Set

Matt Welch | 1.6.2009 10:47 AM

Civil Liberties

No One Better Than Ezra

Matt Welch | 1.6.2009 9:55 AM

Politics

It Takes a Fine Public Servant to Bake a Tasty Apple Pie

Jacob Sullum | 12.30.2008 5:38 PM

Politics

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Why the president should come face to face with public criticism

Steve Chapman | 12.25.2008 7:00 AM