Civil Liberties

Politics

Fear of a Muslim America

In the fight against radical Islam, conservatives are trying to limit the property and speech rights of peaceful American Muslims.

Cathy Young | 7.18.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Obama Even Disappoints Frederick Douglass: Ranks Preserving Union above Ending Slavery

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.17.2011 9:34 PM

Politics

State Governments Set Their Sights on Cigarette Bootleggers

Mike Riggs | 7.15.2011 2:02 PM

Policy

Appeals Court Rules In Favor of Nude Body Scanners; Against Privacy Advocates and Other Decent Peoples

Mike Riggs | 7.15.2011 1:30 PM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on Michelle Bachmann's Marriage Pledge

Reason Staff | 7.14.2011 2:45 PM

Politics

Gun Rights and the 10th Amendment

Damon Root | 7.14.2011 10:13 AM

Nanny State

Woman Jailed While Attempting to Shield Daughter From TSA Pat Down

Peter Suderman | 7.13.2011 1:05 PM

Politics

Justice Stephen Breyer's Hostility to Individual Rights

Damon Root | 7.12.2011 3:07 PM

Policy

Sheriff's Deputy Kills Former NFL Player Outside a Convenience Store

Jacob Sullum | 7.12.2011 2:58 PM

Policy

The TSA's Invasive Search Contest

All it takes to win is the right attitude and a pair of rubber gloves.

A. Barton Hinkle | 7.12.2011 1:30 PM

Policy

We Can Sell Our Beer in Texas, but We Can't Tell You Where

Jacob Sullum | 7.12.2011 12:40 PM

Civil Liberties

Washington Attempts to Make us All Culpable for Online Child Pornography

Matt Welch | 7.12.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

There's Still No Evidence That Eric Holder Knew About Operation Fast and Furious

Mike Riggs | 7.11.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

The Great Basketball Swindle

A riveting new documentary takes on New York's shameful eminent domain abuse

Damon Root | 7.11.2011 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

If You Won't Change Your Mind About Gay Marriage, Will You Limit Your Opposition to Quiet Grumbling?

Jesse Walker | 7.8.2011 10:25 AM

Politics

"TSA Agent Caught With Passenger's iPad in His Pants; Allegedly Took $50,000 in Other Goods, Cops Say"

Matt Welch | 7.8.2011 9:30 AM

Policy

How a Single Nick Gillespie Sentence Indicates "the central analytical failure of libertarianism as a worldview," or at Least Is a Good Enough Reason to Pre-emptively Discount a Piece of Journalism About Black People Getting Screwed Over in D.C.

Matt Welch | 7.7.2011 3:32 PM

Science & Technology

I Failed a Social-Media Background Check

Matt Welch | 7.7.2011 2:45 PM

Politics

The Smallest Stampede You'll See Today

Jesse Walker | 7.6.2011 9:15 AM

Civil Liberties

Coming Tomorrow: The Video Documentary That Got a Reason.tv Journalist Arrested! Plus, a Plea for DC Gov't to Respect the 1st Amendment!

Nick Gillespie | 7.6.2011 8:14 AM

Politics

Sandra Day O'Connor vs. Samuel Alito: Free Speech Edition

Damon Root | 7.5.2011 6:14 PM

Policy

US Airways Adopts TSA Ethos, Treats Customer Like Terrorist

Mike Riggs | 7.5.2011 11:47 AM

Politics

Reason.tv: The Killing of Allen Kephart - How the police lost the trust of a law-and-order town

Tim Cavanaugh and Paul Detrick | 7.5.2011 10:00 AM

Politics

Celebrate the Freedom to Have Your Life Destroyed by County Busybodies

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.4.2011 7:49 PM

Politics

Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance Accountable for DSK Debacle

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.1.2011 1:35 PM

Politics

How George W. Bush Fulfilled FDR's Legacy

Jesse Walker | 7.1.2011 11:05 AM

Policy

The Yearbook Is Not Just Child Pornography; It's Also Evidence of a Sex Crime

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2011 6:58 PM

Politics

Stephen Colbert Lampoons the First Amendment

The Comedy Central host receives government approval to form a political action committee.

Jeff Patch | 6.30.2011 5:45 PM

Policy

U.S. Sentencing Commission Makes Crack Sentence Changes Retroactive

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2011 3:21 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Q&A with Farmageddon's director Kristin Canty

Nick Gillespie and Anthony Fisher | 6.30.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

Texas TSA Bill Succumbs to Squabbling

Jacob Sullum | 6.30.2011 11:04 AM

Politics

More Unintentional Hilarity from Stephen Colbert's Campaign Finance Stunt

Damon Root | 6.30.2011 10:35 AM

Politics

Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie Talk About The Declaration of Independents on Bloggingheads

Reason Staff | 6.29.2011 10:22 PM

Politics

A 'Compelling Interest' to Restrict Video Games Requires More Than Pediatricians' Prejudices

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2011 12:01 PM

Policy

Al Gore's Ugly Rhetoric

The latest pseudoscience from the former vice president

David Harsanyi | 6.29.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Collars for Dollars

How the drug war sacrifices real policing for easy arrests.

Peter Moskos | 6.29.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Reason.tv: Mayor Ed Koch on rent control, his sexuality, Andrew Cuomo, and how he helped save New York

Jim Epstein and Nick Gillespie | 6.29.2011 9:15 AM

Politics

Big Daddy

The government should let parents regulate their children's entertainment.

Jacob Sullum | 6.29.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Clarence Thomas, the First Amendment, and "Originalism at the Wrong Time"

Damon Root | 6.28.2011 7:50 PM

Politics

Document Dump of the Day: The Yippie Files

Jesse Walker | 6.28.2011 4:24 PM

Civil Liberties

Radley Balko Named "Journalist of the Year," Reason Wins Three Other First Place Prizes at the Southern California Journalism Awards

Matt Welch | 6.28.2011 3:43 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Stonewall 2011-The Night NY Legalized Gay Marriage

Anthony Fisher | 6.28.2011 2:59 PM

Politics

Beware the Depends Bomber

The TSA's latest ritual humiliation of an innocent traveler

Gene Healy | 6.28.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Texas TSA Bill Revived

Jacob Sullum | 6.27.2011 8:21 PM

Politics

Is the Defeat of Arizona's 'Clean Elections' System a Victory for 'the Richest Americans'?

Jacob Sullum | 6.27.2011 7:10 PM

Politics

Justice Clarence Thomas on Selling Violent Video Games to Children: "I Don't Think the First Amendment Stretches That Far."

Damon Root | 6.27.2011 3:29 PM