Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties

Scenes from the Drug War: DEA Secretly Commandeers Truck, Gets Driver Killed

Company owner did not authorize use, is trying to get reimbursed and fears for his family.

Reason Staff | 7.30.2012 10:02 PM

Civil Liberties

Imprisoned Marine 'Deserter' Had Been Honorably Discharged

Alan Gourgue was kept in custody for a month and hauled across country before he was released.

Reason Staff | 7.30.2012 6:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Gay Marriage Placed on DNC Platform, Surprising Those Who Thought It Was Already There

Language supporting same-sex recognition to face vote in August.

Reason Staff | 7.30.2012 5:48 PM

Politics

Judge Won't Block Arizona Late-Term Abortion Ban

Abortions after 20 weeks would be forbidden, except in medical emergencies.

Reason Staff | 7.30.2012 5:43 PM

Policy

Do 3D Printers Make Prohibitions Impossible?

J.D. Tuccille | 7.30.2012 12:26 PM

Civil Liberties

Russian Dissident Punk Band Pussy Riot Goes on Trial

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.30.2012 12:10 PM

Policy

Would a New Law Make Big Magazines Disappear?

Jacob Sullum | 7.30.2012 11:54 AM

Policy

Eugene Volokh on Gun Rights, Free Expression, and the Nanny State

Ted Balaker | 7.29.2012 3:30 PM

Policy

Eugene Volokh on Gun Rights, Free Expression, and the Nanny State

Ted Balaker | 7.29.2012 3:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Why Gay Marriage is Winning

Kennedy and Joshua Swain | 7.29.2012 10:30 AM

Policy

Are Rape Jokes Funny?

Daniel Tosh isn't the first comedian to have told a controversial rape joke.

Paul Krassner | 7.28.2012 5:00 PM

Policy

Paul Krassner on Whether Rape Jokes Are Funny

Reason Staff | 7.28.2012 5:00 PM

Politics

What Segregationists Really Believed: Read the Racist Rant That Couldn't See Print in 1962

Nick Gillespie | 7.28.2012 3:13 PM

Politics

Obama's Wars: Biting Drone-War Parodies and The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.27.2012 7:25 PM

Politics

Liberal Columnist: Obama's "black dialect" Explains Why "You didn't build that" Outrages People

Matt Welch | 7.27.2012 6:53 PM

Politics

Seattle May Spend Millions Teaching Police Officers How to Not Stomp on People

Scott Shackford | 7.27.2012 6:46 PM

Policy

U.N. Gun Treaty Not Looking as Restrictive as Anti-Gun Advocates Want, Maybe After the Election?

Ed Krayewski | 7.27.2012 6:26 PM

Civil Liberties

Greg Lukianoff: How Colleges Fight Free Speech

Kennedy and Joshua Swain | 7.27.2012 5:15 PM

Politics

Bloomberg Says Mayors Are Wrong to Ban Chick-fil-A, Takes a Brief Break from Totally Sucking

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.27.2012 2:33 PM

Politics

Should the U.S. Emulate Germany's Campaign Against Scientology?

Jacob Sullum | 7.27.2012 1:46 PM

Politics

Anaheim Riots Spotlight Need for Broad Police Reform

The city's law enforcement culture values aggressiveness over community policing.

Steven Greenhut | 7.27.2012 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Greg Lukianoff: How Colleges Fight Free Speech

Kennedy and Joshua Swain | 7.27.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Chik-Fil-A: Hate the Hater, Love the Chicken, Eat More Beef?

Nick Gillespie | 7.27.2012 10:34 AM

Policy

Cop Block Founder Modifies Car to Record Cops on the Sly

Calvin Thompson | 7.27.2012 10:14 AM

Policy

American Elites' Obsession with Gun Control

Jesse Walker | 7.26.2012 11:04 PM

Politics

The Atlantic's Andrew Cohen Wonders Why We Can't Ruin the Second Amendment Like We Ruined The Other Nine

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.26.2012 7:15 PM

Policy

Left and Right Agree: Only Crazy People Oppose Reviving the 'Assault Weapon' Ban

Jacob Sullum | 7.26.2012 5:54 PM

Politics

Obama Still Thinks the Second Amendment Is About Hunting

Jacob Sullum | 7.26.2012 12:42 PM

Politics

Don't Let the Aurora Shooting Curtail the Right of Self-Defense

Gun control isn't the answer.

Sheldon Richman | 7.26.2012 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Is the Lesson of the Aurora Shooting That We Need Better (Or More Compulsory) Mental Health Services in the U.S.?

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.25.2012 7:45 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on Russia Today: Scott Shackford (Again!) on Anaheim Shooting, Protests

Reason Staff | 7.25.2012 5:45 PM

Policy

The Times on Guns: Still Tendentious, but Improving

Jacob Sullum | 7.25.2012 4:24 PM

Politics

Anaheim Police Deals with Community Upset at Their Propensity for Shooting at Them By Shooting at Them Even More

Scott Shackford | 7.25.2012 2:55 PM

Policy

What We Saw at the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum

Kennedy and Joshua Swain | 7.25.2012 12:30 PM

Politics

20 Years of On-Duty Sex, Plus Overtime, Cop Retired Early at 42 with 7 Years of Health Benefits

Ed Krayewski | 7.25.2012 11:18 AM

Politics

Ice-T: From "Cop Killer" to Second Amendment Hero

Damon Root | 7.25.2012 11:00 AM

Politics

Progressives Try to Purge Libertarians from Occupy New Hampshire

Jesse Walker | 7.25.2012 9:52 AM

Politics

Outrage Is Not an Argument

Politicians should resist demands to do something about guns in response to the Aurora massacre.

Jacob Sullum | 7.25.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Watch Live: Anaheim Protestors Refusing to Disperse

Scott Shackford | 7.24.2012 11:53 PM

Politics

U.S. Government Says That Already-Leaked Wikileaks Cables Are Still Classified

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.24.2012 6:53 PM

Politics

Parent-triggered Charter School Transition Effort Given New Life in California

Scott Shackford | 7.24.2012 5:22 PM

Policy

Gun Control and the Aurora, Colorado, Shootings

Damon Root | 7.24.2012 5:00 PM

Nanny State

Surveillance Fourth Amendment Violations Admitted by Feds

J.D. Tuccille | 7.24.2012 3:46 PM

Civil Liberties

J. Neil Schulman on How to Prevent Mass Shootings. And Joe Klein on What "Caused" Them!

Nick Gillespie | 7.24.2012 2:12 PM

Politics

Obama Says 'I Do' to Gay Marriage

The president changes his mind on gay unions. Again.

Jacob Sullum | 7.24.2012 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Mayor Bloomberg Says Cops Should Go On Strike Until Americans Give Up Their Guns

Mike Riggs | 7.24.2012 11:03 AM

Policy

Reason Writers on Russia Today: Scott Shackford on Anaheim Shooting, Recording Law Enforcement

Reason Staff | 7.23.2012 7:52 PM