Civil Liberties

Police Abuse

St. Paul City Attorney: Not My Job to Second Guess Cop's Decision

Ed Krayewski | 9.5.2014 10:58 AM

Politics

Peace Candidate Obama Keeps Congress in Dark About Ongoing War Plans

Nick Gillespie | 9.5.2014 9:53 AM

Policy

Guy Tells Bad Joke, Finds Himself in LAPD Sniper Scope

Zenon Evans | 9.4.2014 3:55 PM

Civil Liberties

Police Keep Killing Mentally Ill Teens, Too

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.4.2014 2:55 PM

Politics

"Hacked Celebrity Pics Should Not Be an Excuse To Throttle Our Free and Open Internet"

Nick Gillespie | 9.4.2014 1:57 PM

Culture

Facebook Messenger Censors (Some of) Your Favorite Porn Sites

Guess which ones made the list and which ones didn't.

Zenon Evans | 9.4.2014 1:25 PM

Surveillance

FBI's Abuse of National Security Letters Seems to Have Lessened—Except Maybe Against Journalists

Scott Shackford | 9.4.2014 12:50 PM

Policy

Justice Department Will Investigate Entire Ferguson Police Force

Reason Staff | 9.4.2014 9:36 AM

Civil Liberties

Woman Charged With Hate Crime for Anti-NYPD Graffitti

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.3.2014 7:30 PM

Policy

How You Get Two Years for Firing a Shotgun at a Shooting Range

Jacob Sullum | 9.3.2014 5:38 PM

Civil Liberties

Federal Court Questions 'Self-Serving' Police Account of Fatal Shooting

Jury trial ordered for California cops who shot and killed an unarmed suspect

Damon Root | 9.3.2014 4:31 PM

Civil Liberties

Gay Russian Activists Concerned About Crimean Conquest

Reason Staff | 9.3.2014 3:36 PM

Civil Liberties

Cops Storm Texas High School to Investigate Miscarriage 'Suspect'

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.3.2014 3:15 PM

Civil Liberties

Mentally-Disabled Men Sent to Death Row 30 Years Ago By World's "Deadliest Prosecutor" Found Innocent

Lauren Krisai | 9.3.2014 2:50 PM

Policy

Rand Paul Says Criminal Justice Reform Can Expand the GOP's Appeal

Jacob Sullum | 9.3.2014 1:42 PM

Politics

Kasich Cronies Are Causing Libertarian Candidates' Woes

Zenon Evans | 9.3.2014 12:15 PM

Surveillance

Mass NSA Phone Metadata Collection in Federal Appeals Court Crosshairs

Scott Shackford | 9.3.2014 12:05 PM

Guns

Study: People Faster to Shoot White Suspects than Black Suspects

Ronald Bailey | 9.3.2014 11:25 AM

Policy

These Clues Can Help Identify Innocent People to Hassle, Confine, and Forcibly Treat

Jacob Sullum | 9.3.2014 11:04 AM

Civil Liberties

No, Chris Lollie Wasn't Required to Show Cops Identification

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.3.2014 10:15 AM

Civil Liberties

Move Along

Charles Oliver | 9.3.2014 6:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Latest ISIL Beheading, Grover Norquist Tells All About Burning Man, Report from the Russo-Ukrainian Mini-war, Leaked Nudes, Revolving Cantor, NSA, Minimum Wage, Plus After-show!

Matt Welch | 9.2.2014 8:04 PM

Civil Liberties

Answers! Teacher Was Not Given Mental Exam Because of Sci Fi Novels

Robby Soave | 9.2.2014 5:42 PM

Surveillance

Appeals Court Takes on Legalities of NSA Snooping

Obama administration grilled on mass collection of phone records

Reason Staff | 9.2.2014 5:40 PM

Economics

Under ISIL Threat, Erbil Residents Snap Up Black Market Guns

J.D. Tuccille | 9.2.2014 4:39 PM

Warrants

Microsoft Still Resisting Orders to Surrender Overseas Emails to DOJ

Scott Shackford | 9.2.2014 4:15 PM

Surveillance

Dems Push Obama to Declassify Snooping Rules

Want access to legal opinions justifying executive power to collect people's information

Reason Staff | 9.2.2014 2:30 PM

Policy

Trend Alert? Federal Judges Halt Texas and Louisiana Abortion Restrictions

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.2.2014 2:25 PM

Science & Technology

Agora Is the Web's Top Black Marketplace

Zenon Evans | 9.2.2014 1:00 PM

Politics

"The Hunger Games, The Giver and Divergent all depict rebellions against the state, and promote a tacit right-wing libertarianism"

Nick Gillespie | 9.2.2014 12:44 PM

Politics

That Time the President, the FBI, and a Moonlighting Supreme Court Justice Tried to Dig Up Dirt on a Movie Star

When LBJ ordered an investigation of George Hamilton.

Jesse Walker | 9.2.2014 11:35 AM

Civil Liberties

What Policing Should Look Like

How can we build an ethical police force based upon the concept of Constitutional policing by consent?

Stephen Downing | 9.2.2014 8:30 AM

Politics

If Democrats Seek to "Rally Blacks" Against Police Militarization, They Might Start with the Congressional Black Caucus

Nick Gillespie | 9.1.2014 1:54 PM

Policy

High Times Challenges Colorado's Restrictions on Pot-Related Speech

Why wouldn't a marijuana business advertise in the flagship magazine of the cannabis counterculture?

Jacob Sullum | 9.1.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

Video: P.J. O'Rourke on Millennials vs. Baby Boomers

Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller | 8.31.2014 9:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Arizona Cops Seize $455,000 from Medical Marijuana Patient

Tracy Oppenheimer | 8.30.2014 3:00 PM

Politics

Hillary Clinton's Millennial Problem (and the Democrats')

Nick Gillespie | 8.30.2014 10:51 AM

Civil Liberties

Mom Arrested for (Maybe) Hanging Up on Cop While Her 'Missing' 10-Year-Old Plays at Church

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.30.2014 10:20 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The War on War

Matt Welch | 8.29.2014 7:49 PM

Politics

Did Armed GOP Thugs Try to Keep Libertarian Party off Illinois Ballot?

Nick Gillespie | 8.29.2014 4:27 PM

Science

"Libertarian ideology is the natural enemy of science," says The Guardian: Absolute Codswallop.

Ronald Bailey | 8.29.2014 3:02 PM

Politics

Burger King's Tax Evasion, Uber's Dirty Tricks, Knee Defender Hijinks: Nick Gillespie on HuffPost Live

Nick Gillespie | 8.29.2014 2:41 PM

Civil Liberties

Back to School Surveillance: "If you're not where you want to be at the expected time, campus police will show up."

Zenon Evans | 8.29.2014 12:05 PM

Civil Liberties

Update: Officials Still Silent About Mandatory Psych Eval for Teacher

Robby Soave | 8.29.2014 11:58 AM

Policy

Legalize It, but Don't Advertise It: High Times Fights Colorado's Restrictions on Marijuana-Related Speech

Jacob Sullum | 8.29.2014 10:15 AM

Politics

The Deep Roots of Obama's "We Don't Have a Strategy Yet" Problem - and What to Do Next.

Nick Gillespie | 8.29.2014 9:32 AM