Civil Liberties

Politics

Why Stephen Colbert's Super PAC Joke Falls Flat

Jacob Sullum | 2.3.2012 6:06 PM

Politics

Plainclothes NYPD Officers Chase, Fatally Shoot Unarmed 18-Year-Old Over Drug Deal

Lucy Steigerwald | 2.3.2012 6:00 PM

Politics

Does the NYPD Have a Strategy to Infiltrate and Dominate Muslims in New York?

Julie Ershadi | 2.3.2012 5:57 PM

Politics

Iranian Court Upholds Death Sentence for Software Designer

Julie Ershadi | 2.3.2012 2:07 PM

Policy

Cato Paper Shows How Guns Thwart Crimes and Save Lives

Jacob Sullum | 2.3.2012 1:22 PM

Policy

The State Squeal of Vermont

Jacob Sullum | 2.3.2012 10:57 AM

Politics

Lawsuit Alleges NYPD Harassed Transgender Woman, Kept Her Chained for 28 Hours over Minor Subway Violation

Lucy Steigerwald | 2.2.2012 5:41 PM

Politics

Libertarians, Guns, and Federalism

A reply to Richard Epstein's take on the right to keep and bear arms

Damon Root | 2.2.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

"There have been no good reasons not to televise the Supreme Court."

Damon Root | 2.2.2012 1:34 PM

Politics

New Jersey Legislators Get a Chance to Fix the First Amendment Problems With Their Anti-Bullying Law

Jacob Sullum | 2.2.2012 1:17 PM

Politics

Plaid Revolution: Citizens Celebrate Death of Redevelopment

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.1.2012 9:22 PM

Policy

Bogus Pot Busts Continue Apace in New York City

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2012 4:29 PM

Policy

What's Going On with Google's New Privacy Policy?

Julie Ershadi | 2.1.2012 3:41 PM

Politics

A Trip Is Ruined, but Marilyn Monroe Is Safe

Jacob Sullum | 1.31.2012 4:40 PM

Politics

Can Scientific Censorship Stop Bioterrorism?

The best defense against a deadly attack with avian flu is the open scientific enterprise.

Ronald Bailey | 1.31.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Obama Admits U.S. Drone Program Exists, But It's Definitely Just for Special Terrorist Occasions

Lucy Steigerwald | 1.31.2012 3:18 PM

Politics

The TSA's War on Innocent Travelers

The threat of terrorism has radically diminished. So why is Obama trying to expand the TSA's reach?

Gene Healy | 1.31.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Park Ranger Shoots Man With Stun Gun for Walking Dogs Without a Leash

Matt Welch | 1.31.2012 12:05 PM

Politics

Gary Johnson Braves the ACLU

The Libertarian presidential candidate charms a gathering of civil libertarians.

Mike Riggs | 1.31.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

Federal Jury Says Cops Can't Arrest People for Recording Police Encounters

Jacob Sullum | 1.30.2012 3:56 PM

Politics

Piracy: It's Not Killing the Entertainment Industry

Brian Doherty | 1.30.2012 12:24 PM

Politics

Shopping for guns and votes in Tallahassee

Garrett Quinn | 1.28.2012 8:59 PM

Politics

Reason.tv Replay: 3 Reasons Not to Get Worked Up Over Super PACS

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 1.28.2012 11:25 AM

Politics

Superstar 1st Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams on Why Free Speech is an All or Nothing Deal

Nick Gillespie | 1.28.2012 9:35 AM

Politics

"If the First Amendment means anything, then school officials cannot prohibit students from handing out gifts with Christmas messages due to the religious content of those messages."

Damon Root | 1.27.2012 4:58 PM

Policy

"The war on drugs is a war on people." Meet Law Enforcement Against Prohibition's New Anonymous Blogger, an Active-Duty Cop

Lucy Steigerwald | 1.27.2012 4:25 PM

Civil Liberties

Attn: New York Reasonoids! Come See a Benefit Reading of Václav Havel's The Memorandum Tonight!

Matt Welch | 1.27.2012 3:30 PM

Politics

Newt Gingrich vs. the Rule of Law

Jacob Sullum | 1.27.2012 1:43 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on Freedom Watch: Matt Welch Talks Rand Paul & the TSA With Judge Napolitano

Matt Welch | 1.27.2012 10:42 AM

Politics

Smart City Logic: Ten Tall Buildings Worth More Than 20,000 Family Homes

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.27.2012 8:08 AM

Policy

The New Yorker Has a Sobering Look at the Whys of America's Prison-Industrial Complex

Lucy Steigerwald | 1.26.2012 4:28 PM

Policy

Is Backpage Responsible for Kidnapping and Rape?

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2012 4:24 PM

Politics

Police Charge Canadian Blogger With Criminal Libel…for Criticizing the Police

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2012 1:41 PM

Policy

What Should a Mayor Do About Police Abuse of Latinos? He 'Might Have Tacos'

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2012 11:35 AM

Politics

Ron Paul Fights in Maine, Not Florida

Brian Doherty | 1.26.2012 10:57 AM

Civil Liberties

The Trouble with the Copyright Debate

Does every illegal download represent a lost sale?

Cathy Young | 1.25.2012 6:00 PM

Politics

3 Supreme Court Decisions to Watch

Jim Epstein and Nick Gillespie | 1.25.2012 12:19 PM

Politics

How GPS Tracking Threatens Privacy

The Supreme Court considers the 4th Amendment implications of new surveillance technologies.

Jacob Sullum | 1.25.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Iranian Exiles Protest Iran's Internet Crackdown

Julie Ershadi | 1.24.2012 3:50 PM

Politics

Sonia Sotomayor's Heartening Defense of Privacy

Jacob Sullum | 1.24.2012 3:41 PM

Politics

No Charges For Deputies in Mountain Taser Death

Paul Detrick | 1.24.2012 2:04 PM

Politics

Fourth Circuit Says Government Needs More Proof of Link Between Drug Use and Gun Violence

Brian Doherty | 1.24.2012 12:25 PM

Policy

Do We Need a Law to Make People Think?

Virginia's hypocrisy on gun rights versus abortion rights

A. Barton Hinkle | 1.24.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Obama's Administration Continues Its Record of Criminal Cases Against "Leakers"

Brian Doherty | 1.24.2012 10:25 AM

Politics

The Tragic Truth About India's Caste System

Untouchables cling to it because they have few other choices.

Shikha Dalmia | 1.24.2012 7:00 AM