Civil Liberties

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

Politics

Supreme Court Will Review the FCC's 'Indecency' Ban

Jacob Sullum | 6.27.2011 1:06 PM

Policy

In Defense of Mindless Government Drones

Mike Riggs | 6.27.2011 12:12 PM

Politics

Bad Boys

A rogue's gallery of misbehaving prosecutors, plus three worth praising

Radley Balko | 6.27.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona Matching Funds Campaign Finance Law

Damon Root | 6.27.2011 10:58 AM

Politics

Supreme Court Overturns California Ban on Selling Violent Video Games to Minors

Jacob Sullum | 6.27.2011 10:45 AM

Policy

All in the Gay Family

Same-sex marriage existed long before it was legalized.

Jesse Walker | 6.27.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Montana Town Full of Ominous, Mostly Harmless Anti-Government Types

Lucy Steigerwald | 6.27.2011 10:26 AM

Politics

So Much Depends Upon TSA Stripping Travelers of Their Dignity & Diapers

Nick Gillespie | 6.27.2011 8:57 AM

Civil Liberties

How Libertarians Pushed Gay Marriage in New York Over the Top

Nick Gillespie | 6.26.2011 12:13 AM

Civil Liberties

Reason.tv's Jim Epstein Talks to Judge Napolitano About Being Arrested for Filming a Public Meeting

Matt Welch | 6.24.2011 5:13 PM

Policy

No Cigars in Cigar City

Jacob Sullum | 6.24.2011 4:35 PM

Policy

You've Got Jail

Is it time to bring America's prisoners online?

Greg Beato | 6.24.2011 3:00 PM