The NRA's Phony Concession on Bump Stocks Invites a Real Ban
Prohibiting the accessory used by Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock will require new legislation.
Civil Liberties
Harvey Weinstein, Tim Murphy, and Political Hypocrisy
Two disturbing sex scandals underscore why a historic number of Americans want a major third party.
Overcoming Confirmation Bias on Guns
Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty.
A Prospective Bump Stock Ban Shows How Disconnected Gun Control Politics Is From Reality
The device's ineffectiveness and unpopularity make it an easy sacrifice.
A Liberal War on Guns Is Not the Answer to Mass Killings
It'll eviscerate not just the Second Amendment, but much of the Constitution
Are the Feds Using Backdoor Searches to Access Your Banking Data?
BuzzFeed reports federal agencies violating the rules to engage in warrantless domestic snooping of financial information.
What Gun Control Advocates Get Wrong
The misguided call to "repeal the Second Amendment."
ACLU Now Against First Amendment, Conservatives Against Second Amendment?
Today in the news: up is down, left is right, cats are dogs
How the Second Amendment Helped Civil Rights Activists Resist Jim Crow
A response to New York Times columnist Bret Stephens and his call to "repeal the Second Amendment."
Here's How Some Lawmakers Want to Reform Federal Surveillance. Prepare to Be Disappointed
The backdoor, warrantless searches won't end, but will see new limits.
The Real 'Modern Slavery'? Inside America's Court-Ordered Corporate Labor Camps
Under the guise of getting addicts treatment, courts are ordering people to do dangerous and unremunerated labor in "diversion" factory farms.
Republicans Get Behind Gun Control in Wake of Las Vegas Shooting
Get your bump stocks while you can.
U.K. Official Wants You to Stop Sneering at Her for Trying to Destroy Your Privacy
Amber Rudd admits that she doesn't understand encryption while insisting on the need to undermine it.
Vegas Mass Shooting—Where Gun Control Meets Reality: Podcast
Reason's Jacob Sullum talks about making effective policy in the wake of tragedy.
No, the Post-9/11 Response to Terrorism Is Not a Good Model for Gun Policy
Gun control advocates don't seem to realize they are making the case against their push.
A Statistician Reconsiders Her Support for Gun Control After Looking at the Data
If only politicians were so open to contradiction by reality.
A Massacre Is Not an Argument
The Las Vegas attack does not strengthen the case for all the usual gun control ideas.
Did Bump Stocks Make the Las Vegas Shooting Deadlier?
The accessories, which are legal and widely available, sacrifice accuracy for speed.
If You Think Trump Is a Fascist, You Should Oppose Gun Control
Don't combine an authoritarian president with a disarmed populace.
This Is the Time To Defend the Second Amendment and Less-Strict Gun Control
Anti-gun activists are pushing for a crackdown in the wake of the Vegas shooting. That's understandable but wrong.
House Passes Bill Making Abortion After 20 Weeks a Federal Crime
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.
Automatic Weapons Are Already Heavily Regulated and Gun Control Laws Don't Work
Laws aren't the solution you're looking for to crimes like the massacre in Las Vegas.
How to Stop Post-Tragedy Panic Syndrome: Podcast
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.
Outrage at Las Vegas Massacre Does Not Mean Agreeing With Nick Kristof About Gun Control [Updated]
As usual, the policies pushed in response to a mass shooting have little or nothing to do with it.
Feds Give Americans the Frog Treatment
DHS looking to collect social media info from immigrants just the latest development in the surveillance society.
Trump on Las Vegas Shooting: "An Act of Pure Evil"
The president offered condolences, federal law enforcement assistance.
Updated: Las Vegas Mass Shooting Biggest in U.S. History, Gunman I.D.'ed as Stephen Paddock
Resist "grotesque urge to immediately transform all human tragedies into a political agenda."
By All Means, Let's Take Politics Out of Sports—Starting With the National Anthem
Rid private functions of all symbols of the church-state. Then play ball.
Katherine Mangu-Ward: Using Race to Drum up Criminal Justice Outrage Is A-OK
Reason editor in chief steps into The Fifth Column.
D.C. Circuit Won't Reconsider Decision Upholding the Right to Be Armed in Public
The vote confirms a split that invites the Supreme Court to settle the issue.
My Alma Mater American University Cancelled My Title IX 'Hate Speech' Panel
The American Association of University Women at AU celebrated when a talk about feminism, Title IX, and sex on campus got canceled.
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Against Compulsory Public-Sector Union Fees
SCOTUS will hear Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 this term.
Reality Contradicts Study Linking Movie Guns to Fatal Firearm Accidents
As guns proliferated in movies, accidental gun deaths and violent crime fell dramatically.
Will SCOTUS Let Fear of Sex Offenders Trump Justice?
Two cases give the Court a chance to reconsider its counterintuitive conclusions about commitment and registration.
Department of Homeland Security
DHS Wants to Collect Social Media Handles and Other Info from Immigrants, Naturalized Citizens
Government's thirst to know more about you is unquenchable.
9 Lessons from the Trump/NFL Anthem Wars
Let's start by allowing unwitting taxpayers to quit financing a lucrative entertainment industry.
Jeff Sessions Wades Into Debates Over Campus and NFL Speech
The attorney general says the Justice Department will be more active in free speech cases on college campuses.
Stossel: Entrepreneur Saves Free College Courses from Government Ban
An internet entrepreneur saved 20,000 free online college lectures (and more) after the government declared them illegal.
Would Data Breach Notification Laws Really Improve Cybersecurity?
Responses to top-down federal dictates are hard to predict.
When the Government Declared War on the First Amendment
It all started with President Woodrow Wilson.
Judge Napolitano on Whether the Trump/NFL Feud Is a First Amendment and/or Free Speech Issue
The real 'Free Speech Week' kicks off on tonight's Kennedy, featuring Robby Soave, Matt Welch, Kat Timpf, Charles C.W. Cooke, and the Judge
Is Minnesota's Indefinite Detention of Sex Offenders Punitive or Therapeutic?
An appeal asks SCOTUS to decide the question, noting that the program has released just one "patient" in 23 years.
To Commemorate Constitution Day, Princeton Professor Says 'F%*# Free Speech'
The academy, the director of the African Studies program contends, has never considered speech a central value.
