Civil Liberties

Policy

Friday Funnies: Good News Is Relative

Chip Bok | 5.2.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Botched Execution Timeline Raises Questions

Lauren Krisai | 5.1.2014 7:08 PM

Science & Technology

Tech Companies Increasingly Refusing to Keep Government Searches Secret

Big firms join Twitter in letting customers know about subpoenas

Scott Shackford | 5.1.2014 6:05 PM

Police Abuse

Cops Harass Wheelchair-Bound Vet, Take His Cellphone Out of Spite, Arrest Him on Probation Violation After Story Goes Viral

Ed Krayewski | 5.1.2014 5:33 PM

Policy

FCC to Reporters: What You're Doing Isn't Journalism

Why is the Federal Communications Commission deciding which reporters are producing real 'news stories'?

Jesse Walker | 5.1.2014 4:32 PM

Policy

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Expands Police Power to Conduct Warrantless Car Searches

Damon Root | 5.1.2014 11:31 AM

Civil Liberties

Bundy, Sterling, and Reconciling Racially Hateful Speech With Freedom

The most effective equalizer for hatred is the free market.

Andrew Napolitano | 5.1.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

You Gotta Have Faith

Charles Oliver | 5.1.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Brickbat: You Gotta Have Faith

Charles Oliver | 5.1.2014 6:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Mystery Meat Wednesday, With Ralph Nader, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Melissa Francis, Paul Mecurio…Talking Executions, Corporate Welfare, Asteroids, Benghazi, Economic Malaise, and National Honesty Day (Bumped)

Matt Welch | 4.30.2014 8:46 PM

Politics

What The Independents Saw at the Vape-in

Matt Welch | 4.30.2014 6:50 PM

Policy

Is the Death Penalty Constitutional?

Damon Root | 4.30.2014 4:06 PM

Civil Liberties

Federal Agents Beat Retiree at Border Crossing, Claim His Wounds Were 'Self-Inflicted'

J.D. Tuccille | 4.30.2014 1:02 PM

Politics

Mediaite: 'Here Are the Best Moments from Hannity's Clownshow Weed Panel'

Matt Welch | 4.30.2014 12:47 PM

Politics

Classes Dismissed

Web ed crackdown

Zenon Evans | 4.30.2014 10:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Beyond Male and Female

Zenon Evans | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Stop Spying, NSA!

Surveillance oversight

Peter Suderman | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Stop, Frisk, Repeat

NY cops won't stop

Jacob Sullum | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Not-So-Private Email

Encryption under threat

Alyssa Hertig | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

SWAT, Unrestrained

Prison abuse

Ed Krayewski | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

You're Gay? OK.

Jury duty

Scott Shackford | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Pistols Pulled Out

Firearms makers exit California

J.D. Tuccille | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Sneaky Apps

NSA in your pocket

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

The State of Marijuana Legalization

A 50-state guide to the legality of pot

John Ross | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Brickbat: Do You Believe Me Now?

Charles Oliver | 4.30.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Do You Believe Me Now?

Charles Oliver | 4.30.2014 6:00 AM

The Independents

Tonight on The Independents: Silver Bans Sterling, Kyle Smith Pokes Piketty, Brian Lamb on Gubmint Transparency, You Vote for Second Panel Topic, Plus Scenes From the Vape-in & Steamy After-Show!

Matt Welch | 4.29.2014 8:30 PM

Politics

Scenes From Last Night's Vape-in

Matt Welch | 4.29.2014 7:55 PM

Policy

SCOTUS Seems Inclined to Limit Police Access to Your Cellphone

Jacob Sullum | 4.29.2014 6:28 PM

Politics

In North Carolina, United Church of Christ Sues to Demand Right to Solemnize Gay Marriages

Scott Shackford | 4.29.2014 6:05 PM

Policy

Border Patrol Threatens Mother, Slashes Her Tire, as Kids Watch

J.D. Tuccille | 4.29.2014 5:37 PM

Civil Liberties

Cop Fired After Being Caught on Camera Choking Student

Zenon Evans | 4.29.2014 3:25 PM

Politics

GOP Michigan State Rep Bolts Party Over Gay Rights; Joins Libertarians

Nick Gillespie | 4.29.2014 1:26 PM

Politics

Libertarians Should Take Over the GOP, Not Create 3rd Party

Nick Gillespie and Amanda Winkler | 4.29.2014 12:30 PM

Politics

Obama Is Right on Clemency for Non-Violent Drug Offenders

Conservatives have no good reason to caterwaul this time.

Gene Healy | 4.29.2014 12:00 PM

Politics

Mark Cuban: Sterling's Racism "Abhorrent" But "People Are Allowed to be Morons"

Nick Gillespie | 4.29.2014 9:07 AM

Policy

Today at SCOTUS: Do Cops Need a Warrant to Search Your Cellphone When You're Under Arrest?

Damon Root | 4.29.2014 8:10 AM

Politics

Hung Up on 'Stand Your Ground'

The absence of a duty to retreat does not explain the outcome of Michael Dunn's murder trial.

Jacob Sullum | 4.29.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Brickbat: Out of Season

Charles Oliver | 4.29.2014 6:00 AM

Politics

Sarah Palin: 'Waterboarding Is How We Baptize Terrorists'

Zenon Evans | 4.28.2014 5:00 PM

Politics

Kareem, on Donald Sterling: 'Shouldn't we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media?'

Matt Welch | 4.28.2014 4:26 PM

Policy

'A Freedom-Destroying Cocktail': Justice Breyer Keeps Siding with the Cops in Fourth Amendment Cases

Damon Root | 4.28.2014 3:50 PM

Policy

Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Sentenced to Death in Egypt

Matthew Feeney | 4.28.2014 3:28 PM

Policy

Obama Piles New Sanctions on Russia for 'Provocation' in Ukraine

Zenon Evans | 4.28.2014 1:48 PM

Policy

Is It Time to Welcome Our New Robot Overlords?

From online shopping to drone surveillance, it's a brave new world out there.

A. Barton Hinkle | 4.28.2014 12:00 PM