Even If Trump's Threat Against NBC Isn't Serious, It's Still Destructive
Our norms are being eroded by "both sides" of the partisan battle.
Our norms are being eroded by "both sides" of the partisan battle.
This is your brain on campus activism
No, the president actually doesn't have the right to say whatever he wants.
What I saw at the latest campus free speech controversy.
"Setting aside the fact that the FCC doesn't license cable channels," Ajit Pai said last month, "these demands are fundamentally at odds with our legal and cultural traditions."
The leader of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus explains why prohibiting the suddenly notorious gun accessories is rash and dangerous.
America needs a completely different approach based on building multiple defense lines.
The web host can redact user info unless the Justice Department provides evidence of criminal activity.
Most either think hate speech isn't protected by the First Amendment or aren't sure.
Current owners of newly prohibited devices could go to prison for keeping them.
The bill, sponsored by both Republicans and Democrats, would ban much more than just bump stocks.
The video hosting website falls prey to a hysteria.
Worry over Russia's "influence" on U.S. politics is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of free speech.
Businesses shouldn't have to serve those who offend them.
The rules' purpose is to "indoctrinate pregnant women into the belief held by some...Christians that a separate and unique human being begins at conception" said appeals court.
Many conservatives want to proscribe the rights of Muslims, journalists, and those who "disrespect" the United States.
If you strip away legal protections for rights valued by millions of Americans, you're just going to make them angry to no good end.
Is rape culture out of control, or have we entered a new era of "sexual McCarthyism?"
From the man that helped Utah declare porn a "public health crisis."
Prohibiting the accessory used by Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock will require new legislation.
Two disturbing sex scandals underscore why a historic number of Americans want a major third party.
Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty.
The device's ineffectiveness and unpopularity make it an easy sacrifice.
It'll eviscerate not just the Second Amendment, but much of the Constitution
BuzzFeed reports federal agencies violating the rules to engage in warrantless domestic snooping of financial information.
The misguided call to "repeal the Second Amendment."
Today in the news: up is down, left is right, cats are dogs
A response to New York Times columnist Bret Stephens and his call to "repeal the Second Amendment."
The backdoor, warrantless searches won't end, but will see new limits.
Under the guise of getting addicts treatment, courts are ordering people to do dangerous and unremunerated labor in "diversion" factory farms.
Get your bump stocks while you can.
Amber Rudd admits that she doesn't understand encryption while insisting on the need to undermine it.
Reason's Jacob Sullum talks about making effective policy in the wake of tragedy.
Gun control advocates don't seem to realize they are making the case against their push.
If only politicians were so open to contradiction by reality.
The Las Vegas attack does not strengthen the case for all the usual gun control ideas.
The accessories, which are legal and widely available, sacrifice accuracy for speed.
Don't combine an authoritarian president with a disarmed populace.
Anti-gun activists are pushing for a crackdown in the wake of the Vegas shooting. That's understandable but wrong.
The Trump administration has signaled support for the ban, which would throw abortion doctors in jail and let women who get abortions sue their doctors.
Laws aren't the solution you're looking for to crimes like the massacre in Las Vegas.
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch on the Las Vegas shooting, Trump's Twitter rage at Puerto Rico, and the Jones Act.
As usual, the policies pushed in response to a mass shooting have little or nothing to do with it.
DHS looking to collect social media info from immigrants just the latest development in the surveillance society.