Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties

Attn: New York Reasonoids! Come See a Benefit Reading of Václav Havel's The Memorandum Tonight!

Matt Welch | 1.27.2012 3:30 PM

Politics

Newt Gingrich vs. the Rule of Law

Jacob Sullum | 1.27.2012 1:43 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on Freedom Watch: Matt Welch Talks Rand Paul & the TSA With Judge Napolitano

Matt Welch | 1.27.2012 10:42 AM

Politics

Smart City Logic: Ten Tall Buildings Worth More Than 20,000 Family Homes

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.27.2012 8:08 AM

Policy

The New Yorker Has a Sobering Look at the Whys of America's Prison-Industrial Complex

Lucy Steigerwald | 1.26.2012 4:28 PM

Policy

Is Backpage Responsible for Kidnapping and Rape?

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2012 4:24 PM

Politics

Police Charge Canadian Blogger With Criminal Libel…for Criticizing the Police

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2012 1:41 PM

Policy

What Should a Mayor Do About Police Abuse of Latinos? He 'Might Have Tacos'

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2012 11:35 AM

Politics

Ron Paul Fights in Maine, Not Florida

Brian Doherty | 1.26.2012 10:57 AM

Civil Liberties

The Trouble with the Copyright Debate

Does every illegal download represent a lost sale?

Cathy Young | 1.25.2012 6:00 PM

Politics

3 Supreme Court Decisions to Watch

Jim Epstein and Nick Gillespie | 1.25.2012 12:19 PM

Politics

How GPS Tracking Threatens Privacy

The Supreme Court considers the 4th Amendment implications of new surveillance technologies.

Jacob Sullum | 1.25.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Iranian Exiles Protest Iran's Internet Crackdown

Julie Ershadi | 1.24.2012 3:50 PM

Politics

Sonia Sotomayor's Heartening Defense of Privacy

Jacob Sullum | 1.24.2012 3:41 PM

Politics

No Charges For Deputies in Mountain Taser Death

Paul Detrick | 1.24.2012 2:04 PM

Politics

Fourth Circuit Says Government Needs More Proof of Link Between Drug Use and Gun Violence

Brian Doherty | 1.24.2012 12:25 PM

Policy

Do We Need a Law to Make People Think?

Virginia's hypocrisy on gun rights versus abortion rights

A. Barton Hinkle | 1.24.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Obama's Administration Continues Its Record of Criminal Cases Against "Leakers"

Brian Doherty | 1.24.2012 10:25 AM

Politics

The Tragic Truth About India's Caste System

Untouchables cling to it because they have few other choices.

Shikha Dalmia | 1.24.2012 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

More Grim News from the Egyptian Winter

Brian Doherty | 1.23.2012 6:07 PM

Politics

Rand Paul's TSA Incident; Complaining About the TSA is Worse Than the TSA to Some Commentators

Lucy Steigerwald | 1.23.2012 5:20 PM

Politics

Breitbart: "Newt Gingrich is the Tea Party by Proxy"

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.23.2012 4:59 PM

Policy

Out of 747,408 Registered Sex Offenders, How Many Are Actually Dangerous?

Jacob Sullum | 1.23.2012 3:31 PM

Civil Liberties

Abortion, Roe v. Wade, Ron Paul, & Libertarians

Nick Gillespie | 1.23.2012 2:19 PM

Politics

SCOTUS Rules That GPS Tracking Is a 'Search'

Jacob Sullum | 1.23.2012 12:02 PM

Politics

Rand Paul Allegedly Detained by TSA

Matt Welch | 1.23.2012 10:25 AM

Civil Liberties

Salman in No Rush to Die….

Shikha Dalmia | 1.20.2012 8:05 PM

Policy

The Internet Dodges the SOPA Bullet—For Now

Those who seek control will not give up easily.

Sheldon Richman | 1.20.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

9th Circuit Sees No Anti-Corruption Rationale for Limiting Contributions to Recall Campaigns

Jacob Sullum | 1.20.2012 4:15 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh on Gingrich's Counterculture McGovernik Ethics: RT Big Picture

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.20.2012 2:53 PM

Politics

The Controversial Ron Paul: The GOP and Assange, Israel and the NDAA

Brian Doherty | 1.19.2012 7:45 PM

Politics

People Are Indeed People, and Their Right to Talk About Politics Is Guaranteed by the First Amendment

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2012 11:37 AM

Politics

Gary Johnson on SOPA: "There are NO problems with the Internet that we want the government to try to fix!"

Mike Riggs | 1.19.2012 9:52 AM

Politics

The Upside of the Keystone Cancellation

Jesse Walker | 1.19.2012 9:18 AM

Politics

Iran Refuses to Return U.S. Drone, Offers Cool Toy Version Instead

Julie Ershadi | 1.18.2012 4:39 PM

Politics

Will The Supreme Court End New York's Rent Control Laws?

Joshua Swain | 1.18.2012 3:00 PM

Politics

This May Be the Only Time I've Rooted for the DEA

Jacob Sullum | 1.18.2012 1:38 PM

Politics

Where Do the Republican Candidates Stand on Science?

A roundup of the views of GOP hopefuls on contraception, evolution, Internet freedom, and more.

Ronald Bailey | 1.18.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

David Harsanyi on Fighting Money in Politics

Reason Staff | 1.18.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

Some Views on SOPA & PIPA

Nick Gillespie | 1.18.2012 9:48 AM

Politics

The Vain Crusade to Purify Politics

How misguided efforts to prevent corruption gave us the pretense of "independent" campaign spending.

Jacob Sullum | 1.18.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Rick Santorum Worries About the Drug War's Racial Impact

Jacob Sullum | 1.17.2012 1:21 PM

Policy

Melbourne Police Kick, Punch, and Taser a 66-Year-Old Man With Dementia

Mike Riggs | 1.16.2012 3:51 PM

Civil Liberties

Reason on Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Civil Rights

Nick Gillespie | 1.16.2012 9:50 AM

Policy

Guess the Top 10 TSA Catches of 2011! Hint: Not Terrorists.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 1.13.2012 4:59 PM