Civil Liberties

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

Policy

D.C. Police Officially Declare Photography Is Not a Crime

Jacob Sullum | 7.23.2012 6:53 PM

Policy

Florida Police Changed The Real Suspect's Charges to Attempted Murder After They Fatally Shot Andrew Scott Instead

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.23.2012 6:07 PM

Politics

Boston Police Overtime Scandal: Drug Unit Clocked in 900 Court Hours Not Needed by DA's Office

Ed Krayewski | 7.23.2012 2:03 PM

Politics

North Dakota the New Center for Drone Concerns

Calvin Thompson | 7.23.2012 1:36 PM

Civil Liberties

Anaheim Cops Shoot Rubber Bullets, Unleash Dog on Crowd Protesting Police Shooting

Nick Gillespie | 7.22.2012 5:30 PM

Politics

5 Rules for Coping with Tragedy

Ted Balaker and Nick Gillespie | 7.22.2012 3:30 PM

Policy

Cop Took Cell Phone Used to Film Him, Lawsuit Alleges Retaliation

Ed Krayewski | 7.20.2012 3:22 PM

Policy

The Map of Florida: Gun Control and Firearm Death Rates

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2012 2:27 PM

Politics

Batman Shooter: Tragedy Shouldn't Make Policy

Brian Doherty | 7.20.2012 11:31 AM

Policy

Brady Campaign's Response to Aurora Murders: Guns Bad

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2012 11:12 AM

Politics

Would President Mitt Romney "Vigorously Enforce" Obscenity Laws?

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.19.2012 4:40 PM

Politics

How to Build a Mosque in Tennessee

Ed Krayewski | 7.19.2012 2:39 PM

Politics

Obama Administration Will Review Clarence Aaron's Commutation Petition and the Clemency Process

Jacob Sullum | 7.19.2012 12:13 PM

Politics

YouTube Face Blurring Tech Latest Google Thwarting of Authoritarian Governments

Ed Krayewski | 7.18.2012 6:01 PM

Politics

Would Family-Friendly TV Fare Disappear Without the FCC?

Jacob Sullum | 7.18.2012 5:05 PM

Politics

California's Ballot Initiatives: A Top Ten List Too Boring for Letterman or Buzzfeed

Scott Shackford | 7.18.2012 4:52 PM

Policy

"Good Samaritan" Laws For Overdose Emergencies Get More Good Press

Brian Doherty | 7.18.2012 4:01 PM

Politics

Seeking Just Compensation for Damages from Federal Flooding

Damon Root | 7.18.2012 4:00 PM

Politics

How "You didn't build that" became "He didn't say that"

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.18.2012 3:42 PM

Politics

Can the Zombie Apocalypse Save Detroit?

Melanie Kruvelis | 7.18.2012 3:01 PM

Politics

Constitution, Schmonstitution, Bloomberg Says

Jacob Sullum | 7.18.2012 1:14 PM

Politics

Chuck Schumer's "Limits to First Amendment" Garbage a Throwback to George W. Bush Circa 1999

Ed Krayewski | 7.18.2012 11:52 AM

Policy

The Dumbest Argument for Censorship That You Will Read Today

Jesse Walker | 7.18.2012 10:32 AM

Politics

The Truth About "Deep Throat"

A new book sheds light on the Watergate whistleblower's real motives.

Athan Theoharis | 7.18.2012 9:00 AM

Politics

No Innocent Pakistanis Killed by Drones in 2012 Still Untrustworthy Summation of Incomplete Data

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.17.2012 10:05 PM

Policy

Caitlin Moran Knows How To Be a Woman and You Don't

Popular feminist yuk-fest is really a class-based etiquette book.

Brendan O'Neill | 7.17.2012 7:00 PM

Politics

Why Refute Lies When You Can Throw Liars in Jail?

Jacob Sullum | 7.17.2012 3:07 PM

Politics

Sen. Tom Coburn: How Both Parties Bankrupted America

Nick Gillespie and Jim Epstein | 7.17.2012 2:34 PM

Politics

Enyclopedia Brown: The Grown-Up Years

Jesse Walker | 7.17.2012 12:33 PM

Politics

Frederick Douglass, Classical Liberal

A fresh look at the political evolution of a great American

Damon Root | 7.17.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

The Mad Dream of a Libertarian Dictatorship

The long-lived, utterly insane idea of an autocrat imposing freedom

Jesse Walker | 7.17.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

Detroit Police Unions Seriously Wonder Why Their Officers Are Paid So Little

Scott Shackford | 7.16.2012 7:07 PM

Policy

Newark's Mayor Calls the Drug War 'Big Overgrown Government at Its Worst'

Jacob Sullum | 7.16.2012 7:06 PM

Nanny State

Facial Recognition Technology Will Make You Hard To Miss

J.D. Tuccille | 7.16.2012 3:55 PM

Politics

Drone Records Gush from FAA Spigot, But Privacy Issues Not a Priority

Scott Shackford | 7.16.2012 2:43 PM

Politics

Seth Adams Investigation Findings Imminent; Sheriff Says They "Verify Exactly" What He's Thought Since the Beginning Anyway

Ed Krayewski | 7.16.2012 1:23 PM

Politics

America's First Rebel: Roger Williams and the Birth of Liberty

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 7.16.2012 1:00 PM

Politics

Florida Police Knock on Wrong Door at 1:30 a.m. Without Identifying Themselves, Then Fatally Shoot Armed Resident

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.16.2012 11:15 AM

Policy

Houston Police Kill Unarmed Man, Allegedly Took Witness' Cellphone When She Tried to Record

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.13.2012 8:00 PM

Politics

FBI: Zimmerman Not Racist, Occupy Riot in L.A., Anybody Serious About the Deficit?: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 7.13.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Gay French Will Be Able to Get Married in the Crumbling Ruins of Their Home Country

Scott Shackford | 7.13.2012 1:13 PM

Politics

"Interrogation Has Been Replaced by Assassination"

Jesse Walker | 7.13.2012 11:12 AM

Policy

Why Not Let Cops Stop People for Unbuckled Seat Belts?

Jacob Sullum | 7.13.2012 3:50 AM