Civil Liberties

Politics

Justice for Cisco: A Wrong Door Puppycide in Austin

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.17.2012 2:35 PM

Politics

Tasers for Transit Workers?

Ed Krayewski | 4.17.2012 10:35 AM

Politics

Can Wal-Mart Scale L.A.'s Great Wall of Regulation?

Opponents claim local Asian-Americans oppose the big-box store. Locals tell a different story.

Charles Johnson | 4.17.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Drones Are a Fact of Life (and a Meme) But the Pakistani Parliament Requests the U.S. Stop With the Strikes

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.16.2012 7:03 PM

Politics

Pulitzer Prize May Be Most Coverage NYPD Spy Program Will Get All Year

Ed Krayewski | 4.16.2012 5:45 PM

Policy

How Can Overcharging Be Ethical?

Jacob Sullum | 4.16.2012 4:47 PM

Politics

Civil Libertarians Launch Campaign Against CISPA

Ed Krayewski | 4.16.2012 2:55 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh Talks Secret Service Hookers With Jerry Doyle: 3:30 p.m Eastern (12:30 Pacific)

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 2:49 PM

Policy

TSA Thinks Drag Queen's Fake Boobs Are a Terrorist Threat

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.16.2012 10:36 AM

Politics

5 Freaky Fetishes of Golden-Age Hollywood - And The Enduring Question They Still Raise

Nick Gillespie | 4.15.2012 1:00 PM

Politics

Secret Service Agents Should be Allowed to Rent Hookers

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.15.2012 10:52 AM

Civil Liberties

Did the West Liberate Kuwait So It Could Execute Anyone Who Insults God or Mohammed? The Answer May Appall You.

Nick Gillespie | 4.14.2012 3:46 PM

Politics

Cops May Throw Wet Blanket on Nude Maid Service

Ed Krayewski | 4.13.2012 3:58 PM

Civil Liberties

Fickle Friends of Online Freedom

J.D. Tuccille | 4.12.2012 4:19 PM

Policy

How Long Will Nicholas Kristof Continue to Profit From Sex Trafficking?

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 1:31 PM

Politics

No Pilot, No Problem

The future of military aviation is unmanned. The sooner it comes, the better.

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.12.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Will the Supreme Court Review New York's Rent Stabilization Law?

Damon Root | 4.12.2012 1:02 PM

Policy

If George Zimmerman Loses a Pretrial Motion to Dismiss, He Can Still Be Acquitted

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 11:22 AM

Politics

Newt Gingrich Tells Us About the Justice System and Experts

Ed Krayewski | 4.11.2012 7:42 PM

Policy

George Zimmerman Charged With Second-Degree Murder

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 6:09 PM

Politics

Florida Drug Warriors Say They Had to Erase Possibly Incriminating Surveillance Video—for Their Own Protection

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 4:17 PM

Policy

New Telecomm Provider Would Put Privacy First

Ed Krayewski | 4.11.2012 2:50 PM

Policy

WP Says Prosecutor Will Charge George Zimmerman

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 2:17 PM

Civil Liberties

Stop Cyberbullying Your Masters!

J.D. Tuccille | 4.11.2012 1:56 PM

Politics

Can Volunteers Protect Communities?

Tracy Oppenheimer | 4.11.2012 12:30 PM

Politics

The Cure for Humanity's Natural State of Abject Poverty

A review of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty.

Ronald Bailey | 4.10.2012 5:15 PM

Politics

The TSA's Security Secret: There Is No Security Secret

Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2012 5:03 PM

Policy

It's Not the Crime; It's the Cover-Up—Even If There Is No Crime

Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2012 4:11 PM

Policy

Autopsy Raises Doubts About Police Account of Kenneth Chamberlain's Death

Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2012 2:48 PM

Civil Liberties

Baseball Morality: You Can Lie to the Taxpayers You Steal Money From, But Just Don't You Go Talking About Fidel Castro!

Matt Welch | 4.10.2012 2:28 PM

Policy

The New York Times Gets Florida's Self-Defense Law Wrong. Again.

Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2012 1:47 PM

Civil Liberties

Grad Student Challenges Border Laptop Searches

J.D. Tuccille | 4.10.2012 1:19 PM

Politics

U.S. Not Allowing Pakistani Drone Lawyer Into Country

Ed Krayewski | 4.10.2012 1:10 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on MSNBC: Matt Welch Talks POTUS vs. SCOTUS, the Social-Darwinism Slur, and the Constitution-Shredding War on Crime on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show

Matt Welch | 4.10.2012 9:31 AM

Civil Liberties

Remembering Mike Wallace, and "The Homosexuals"

Matt Welch | 4.9.2012 12:19 PM

Policy

When Losers Write History

Why legacy-newspaper media reporters get their own industry so wrong

Matt Welch | 4.8.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

How Gauche: American Yokels Actually Obey Their Own Laws

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.7.2012 1:55 PM

Policy

Matt Welch Talks Pot Raids, Gun Sales, and Stones Songs on Varney & Co.

Matt Welch | 4.6.2012 5:05 PM

Politics

Bronx Legislators Push To Hold Incarcerated Parents Closer to Children

Ed Krayewski | 4.6.2012 3:37 PM

Policy

Will Google's Augmented Reality Glasses Facilitate an All-Seeing Surveillance State?

Peter Suderman | 4.6.2012 2:50 PM

Policy

Startup All-You-Can-Fly Airline Doesn't Want to See Your Underwear

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.5.2012 3:01 PM

Civil Liberties

U.S. Court Gives Thumbs-Up to Snoopy Checkpoints Near-ish the Border

J.D. Tuccille | 4.5.2012 2:45 PM

Policy

7 Rules for Recording Police

Courts are expanding rights but cops are cracking down. Find out how to keep your footage, and yourself, out of trouble.

Steve Silverman | 4.5.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

What We Saw at the San Francisco Marijuana Rally

Reason Staff | 4.5.2012 12:36 PM

Policy

DOMA Still Messing With Gay People's Ability to Sponsor Spouses for Green Cards

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.4.2012 6:54 PM

Politics

Stop Panicking Over Bullies

Despite a flurry of recent documentaries and attention, school hasn't been reduced to jungle law.

Nick Gillespie | 4.4.2012 4:30 PM