Civil Liberties

Politics

Supreme Court Rules Unanimously Against EPA "Strong-Arming of Regulated Parties"

Damon Root | 3.21.2012 11:09 AM

Politics

Cops Moving In On Toulouse Shooting Suspect

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.21.2012 7:59 AM

Policy

Dharun Ravi's Hateless Hate Crime

A jury blames Dharun Ravi for his dead roommate's imagined feelings.

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

What's the Problem with Dropping Out?

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.20.2012 5:14 PM

Policy

Does Tyler Clementi's Suicide Prove Dharun Ravi Is a Bigot?

Jacob Sullum | 3.20.2012 4:42 PM

Politics

How Strong Is the Legal Case Against Rent Control?

Damon Root | 3.20.2012 1:58 PM

Politics

California Kills Redevelopment

Gov. Jerry Brown's winning campaign against blight hustlers

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.20.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

Obama's Daughter Vacations in Mexico, But Let's Not Discuss It. In Fact, Let's Not Even Ever Have Discussed It

Brian Doherty | 3.19.2012 11:37 PM

Policy

6th Circuit Approves Cigarette Warning Labels and Suppression of Risk Information but Rejects Ad Limits

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2012 6:56 PM

Policy

It Might Be Premature to Blame 'Meth Babies' for Imposing 'Tremendous Burdens on Society'

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2012 5:52 PM

Politics

You Seem Like a Dangerous Sex Offender, Or the Indefinite Detainment of Americans

Lucy Steigerwald | 3.19.2012 5:45 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Charles Nichols Challenges California's Open Carry Ban

Tim Cavanaugh and Zach Weissmueller | 3.19.2012 5:40 PM

Politics

We Know You Have a Choice of Gropers, and We Appreciate Your Business

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2012 1:52 PM

Politics

Sextuple Jeopardy

The Groundhog Day of capital murder trials

William Browning | 3.19.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

TSA Screener Pats Down a Wheelchair-Bound Toddler in a Hip Cast

Mike Riggs | 3.19.2012 8:49 AM

Politics

Eric Holder in 1995: We "really need to brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way."

Nick Gillespie | 3.19.2012 8:00 AM

Politics

Five Ways Citizens United Is Making Politics Better

The controversial 2010 Supreme Court ruling is already bringing us more competitive campaigns, funnier ads and greater freedom of speech.

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.17.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Five Ways Citizens United Is Making Politics Better

The controversial 2010 Supreme Court ruling is already bringing us more competitive campaigns, funnier ads and greater freedom of speech.

Reason Staff | 3.17.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Is Jason Russell's Hysterical Naked Madness Good for Kony?

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.16.2012 9:50 PM

Politics

What Wouldn't You Believe About the Patriot Act?

Brian Doherty | 3.16.2012 6:05 PM

Culture

Kony 2012 Narrator Detained for "Masturbating in Public" (Updated)

Nick Sibilla | 3.16.2012 4:34 PM

Policy

Did Dharun Ravi Commit a Hateless Hate Crime?

Jacob Sullum | 3.16.2012 4:25 PM

Politics

Drug War Incompatible with Human Rights, Says Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

Brian Doherty | 3.16.2012 3:53 PM

Politics

Dharun Ravi Found Guilty on Most Charges

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.16.2012 1:04 PM

Civil Liberties

Reason Writers Around Town: Jesse Walker on "Doonesbury," in Newsday

Matt Welch | 3.16.2012 8:46 AM

Politics

The American Prospect on the Kelo Debacle: "It's almost a textbook case of federalism at its best"

Damon Root | 3.15.2012 2:30 PM

Policy

Bill Bennett Takes Drug Policy Advice From Bruce Springsteen

Jacob Sullum | 3.15.2012 2:04 PM

Politics

Joseph Kony is a Terrorist

Nick Sibilla | 3.15.2012 12:59 PM

Policy

DFW Readers: Hear Me Talk About Loony Liquor Laws

Jacob Sullum | 3.15.2012 11:52 AM

Politics

Bill Maher: There's No Double Standard, Because I'm Funny, and Rush Isn't

Jacob Sullum | 3.15.2012 11:40 AM

Politics

Anecdotes About Horrible, Sexist "Quiverfull" Families Probably Proof That Homeschooling Needs More Government Oversight

Lucy Steigerwald | 3.14.2012 9:15 PM

Civil Liberties

Jack Kerouac Wrote Marlon Brando a Letter, or Maybe He Just Typed It

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.14.2012 4:51 PM

Politics

When Is Quoting Van Halen a Crime?

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2012 3:33 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: How Sex Offender Registries Fail Us

Tracy Oppenheimer | 3.14.2012 12:28 PM

Policy

Is Dharun Ravi Guilty of 'Bias Intimidation'?

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2012 12:11 PM

Politics

Why Super PACs Are Good for Democracy

Wealthy super PAC donors make politics more competitive.

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem: Rush Limbaugh "is not constitutionally entitled to the people's airways"

Damon Root | 3.13.2012 5:20 PM

Politics

Invisible Children, Invisible Finances? Kony 2012 Creators Stonewall Critics

Nick Sibilla | 3.13.2012 3:58 PM

Politics

The Case Against Rent Control

An Upper West Side landlord challenges a New York City institution

Damon Root | 3.13.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

The Supreme Court Can't Fix University Admissions Policies

Universities have a history of ignoring the law to engineer the right ethnic mix on campus.

Shikha Dalmia | 3.13.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Orange County Cop Who Killed Manuel Loggins Returns to Duty Amid Allegations that Loggins' Daughters Were Held for 13 Hours by Police After Watching Their Father Die

Lucy Steigerwald | 3.12.2012 6:50 PM

Politics

Ordeal by Trial: Sowing Chaos With the Sixth Amendment

Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2012 2:52 PM

Policy

California Pot Legalization Initiatives in Disarray

Brian Doherty | 3.12.2012 1:23 PM

Politics

Charles Murray on Forcing Classes to Mix

Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2012 1:22 PM

Politics

Unions and Democrats: Labor's Love Lost

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.11.2012 10:22 PM

Politics

Atheism Is a Religion

Or at least it requires a God for you not to believe in.

Kennedy | 3.10.2012 10:00 AM