Civil Liberties

Politics

Don't Worry: The President Will Have Complete Discretion to Imprison People Without Trial

Jacob Sullum | 11.28.2011 2:03 PM

Policy

School District Acknowledges Student's Right to Say the Governor Sucks

Jacob Sullum | 11.28.2011 1:25 PM

Policy

Gag Order Silences Parents of Boy Charged With Sexual Assault for Playing Doctor

Jacob Sullum | 11.28.2011 10:50 AM

Politics

Eminent Domain Reform Is a Bipartisan Opportunity

Eminent domain laws are bad for property rights and social justice alike

A. Barton Hinkle | 11.25.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

Campus Speech Codes Are Bad For Higher Education

We should counter hateful speech with more words-not government force

John Stossel | 11.24.2011 12:30 PM

Policy

Parents Sue D.A. for Charging Their 6-Year-Old Son With a Felony After He Played Doctor With a 5-Year-Old Girl

Jacob Sullum | 11.23.2011 4:38 PM

Politics

"Bruce Ratner's latest useful idiots have no one to blame but themselves."

Damon Root | 11.23.2011 4:25 PM

Politics

DHS Sez: Happy Thanksgiving, Turkey Fryers Are Scary

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.23.2011 2:17 PM

Policy

'Oh Yeah Man, We Got the Water Pipes Bro'

Jacob Sullum | 11.23.2011 1:29 PM

Politics

Citizen Journalist Demonstrates How to Stand Up to NYPD

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.23.2011 1:05 PM

Policy

Subjects of Missouri Drug Raid That Went Viral Have Their Civil Suit Dismissed

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.22.2011 6:20 PM

Politics

More of These, Please: Obama's First Commutation

Jacob Sullum | 11.22.2011 4:26 PM

Policy

How Do You Turn AK-47s Into Cufflinks? Very Carefully, Let's Hope

Tate Watkins | 11.22.2011 3:20 PM

Politics

Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Shows That Hunger for More Power Corrupts

J. Edgar Hoover's Fetish for Authority Was More Worrisome Than His Apocryphal Sexual Hangups

Gene Healy | 11.22.2011 1:30 PM

Politics

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Why Taxation is Theft, Abortion is Murder, & It's Dangerous to Be Right When the Gov't Is Wrong

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 11.22.2011 12:20 PM

Politics

Newsweek Cannot Help But Follow Media Tradition of Panic Over Right Wing Extremists

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.21.2011 6:33 PM

Politics

California's Assault Weapon Ban Challenged in Federal Court

Brian Doherty | 11.21.2011 4:49 PM

Policy

Government Worker Fired for Signing Pro-Pot Legalization Petition

Brian Doherty | 11.21.2011 3:56 PM

Civil Liberties

Battle for Brooklyn Shortlisted for an Oscar

Damon Root | 11.21.2011 3:04 PM

Politics

Why We Should Fear Bathtubs More Than Terrorists-Authors John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart on Security Spending

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 11.21.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

Why Must Prosecutors Be Told to Follow the Law?

Jacob Sullum | 11.21.2011 2:02 PM

Politics

New Video of Police Brutality at Occupy Oakland

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.19.2011 6:53 PM

Politics

Sit on a Sidewalk, Get Pepper Sprayed

Brian Doherty | 11.18.2011 11:50 PM

Politics

"Prop 8's backers deserve their day in court"

Damon Root | 11.18.2011 5:01 PM

Politics

Campaign Finance and the Problem of Big Government

A response to Jacob Sullum

Lawrence Lessig | 11.18.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Don't Let's Discuss the Legitimacy of the Saudi Government, MMkay?

Brian Doherty | 11.18.2011 4:10 PM

Policy

20 Years Later, Mandatory Minimum Sentences Are Still Mindlessly Draconian

Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2011 1:23 PM

Politics

The Guy Who Proposed Amending the Constitution to Overturn Citizens United Faults Senators for Trying to Do That

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2011 7:24 PM

Policy

The Politics of Campus Sexual Assault

Why is the federal government pushing to reduce the due process rights of college students?

Cathy Young | 11.17.2011 7:00 PM

Policy

TSA Celebrates 10 Years of Sucking!

Nick Gillespie | 11.17.2011 4:50 PM

Politics

Moore Casts Stones at His Neighbors While Living in His Glass House on Torch Lake

Shikha Dalmia | 11.17.2011 3:24 PM

Politics

Gay Marriage Moves One Step Closer to the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 11.17.2011 2:49 PM

Politics

Meet, Heckle Tim Cavanaugh at UCLA Tonight

Reason Staff | 11.17.2011 2:28 PM

Politics

Why Bother Attaching Tracking Devices to Cars When People Voluntarily Carry Them Wherever They Go?

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 6:14 PM

Policy

Drop Those Drugs

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 4:37 PM

Politics

Occupy Wall Street Removed from Zuccotti Park by NYPD (11/15/2011)

Reason Staff | 11.16.2011 12:03 PM

Politics

Do Catholics Have a First Amendment Right to Ban Gay Marriage?

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 11:46 AM

Politics

[UPDATED] Obama Administration Allegedly Helped Coordinate Occupy Crackdowns

Mike Riggs | 11.16.2011 11:19 AM

Civil Liberties

"The nature of martial arts is a lot like dancing."

Damon Root | 11.16.2011 10:15 AM

Politics

New York Times Logic: Someone in a Class Did Something Bad with a Gun. No One in that Class Should Have a Gun.

Brian Doherty | 11.15.2011 8:43 PM

Politics

New York Judge Upholds Eviction of Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park

Mike Riggs | 11.15.2011 5:33 PM

Civil Liberties

A Fitting Tribute to Medgar Evers

America honors the civil rights hero.

Ira Stoll | 11.14.2011 4:30 PM