Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties

New Witness Testimonies Surface In Kelly Thomas Case: "They Pounded His Face Against the Curb"; "He's Almost Halfway Dead"

Mike Riggs | 8.2.2011 10:46 AM

Politics

Obama's Top Four Power Grabs

The president stretches executive power to expand the warfare state and the regulatory state.

Shikha Dalmia | 8.2.2011 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

FBI Investigating "Scuffle" In Which Five Fullerton Cops Beat Kelly Thomas Into a Coma

Mike Riggs | 8.1.2011 4:47 PM

Politics

Affirmative Action Heading Back to Supreme Court?

Damon Root | 8.1.2011 10:17 AM

Politics

Rick Perry's Fair-Weather Federalism

The Texas governor backtracks on his 10th Amendment support for New York's gay marriage law.

Mike Riggs | 7.29.2011 1:30 PM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on Obama's Executive Power Grabs

Reason Staff | 7.28.2011 2:45 PM

Policy

Allow Me to Introduce My Victim

Jacob Sullum | 7.27.2011 6:16 PM

Policy

The Police Say David Lee Turner's Shooting Was Justified, but Their Account Suggests Otherwise

Jacob Sullum | 7.27.2011 11:34 AM

Policy

NAACP Wants to 'End the War on Drugs'

Jacob Sullum | 7.26.2011 5:07 PM

Politics

Texas Appeals Court Rejects Developer's Defamation Claims

Jacob Sullum | 7.26.2011 4:10 PM

Policy

'I Can Never Have Faith in Justice in This Country Again'

Jacob Sullum | 7.26.2011 10:43 AM

Politics

Rick Perry Defends 10th Amendment, Makes SocialCons Uneasy

Mike Riggs | 7.26.2011 9:54 AM

Politics

If at First You Don't Get a Prison Sentence, Try, Try Again

Jacob Sullum | 7.25.2011 4:31 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Fighting the War on Cameras - Jerome Vorus and the ACLU take D.C. to Court

Joshua Swain and Nick Gillespie | 7.25.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

Allen Kephart Taser Death Evidence Shuffle

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.24.2011 2:09 PM

Policy

Targeting Child Porn With Sarbanes-Oxley; or, How to Cut Your Sentence in Half With a Hammer

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2011 5:40 PM

Policy

'It Should Look Good on YouTube': The Anti-Harless

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2011 3:26 PM

Politics

Reason On Radio: Tim Cavanaugh talks California Prison Guards on Fresno's KMJ 105.9FM 580AM

Reason Staff | 7.22.2011 3:07 PM

Policy

Scientific Evidence Clearly Shows That Ecstasy Is Only 200 Times As Bad As Pot

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2011 1:51 PM

Policy

'I Should Blast You in the Mouth Right Now'

Jacob Sullum | 7.22.2011 11:13 AM

Policy

At the University of North Dakota, Yes Also Means No

Jacob Sullum | 7.21.2011 6:55 PM

Politics

Stanford So Smart Even Its Rapists Are Logical

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.21.2011 3:50 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Do Parents Matter? Q&A with Bryan Caplan, Author of Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 7.21.2011 3:00 PM

Policy

Is It the FCC's Fault If Parents Don't Know What Their Kids Are Watching?

Peter Suderman | 7.21.2011 11:26 AM

Policy

Startup All-You-Can-Fly Airline Dodges TSA Using Horde of Tiny Planes

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.21.2011 11:22 AM

Civil Liberties

Jewish Groups Speak Out Against Israel's Speech-Killing Boycott Law

Hannah Burak | 7.20.2011 4:38 PM

Politics

California Court Says Child Porn Requires Real Children

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 3:56 PM

Politics

Arkansas Town Bans Organizations Lest They Cause 'Discourse'

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 2:46 PM

Politics

If You Want to Keep Your Baby, Steer Clear of the Pasta Salad

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 2:11 PM

Policy

A Pocketknife Earns Expulsion but Not a Felony Conviction

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2011 12:51 PM

Civil Liberties

Misreading Marriage Statistics

Jesse Walker | 7.20.2011 12:44 PM

Politics

Cuba Carefully Doles Out GLBT Rights

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.20.2011 12:29 PM

Civil Liberties

Sometimes the Headline Says it All

Matt Welch | 7.19.2011 4:01 PM

Politics

Welch & Gillespie: Doubling Down on Bets to Unravel the Paradox of the Dovetailed Freakout…or, Why'dya Write the Book?

Reason Staff | 7.19.2011 3:52 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Battle for Brooklyn-Eminent Domain Abuse Gone Wild

Anthony Fisher | 7.19.2011 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Underground Music in the Age of Jim Crow

Damon Root | 7.19.2011 2:51 PM

Politics

Return to Normalcy

When Al Qaeda is defeated, can we have our liberties back?

Gene Healy | 7.19.2011 1:30 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on The Alyona Show: Matt Welch Talks Morgan Freeman, Herman Cain, and TSA Nipple-Twisting

Reason Staff | 7.19.2011 12:46 PM

Politics

Erasing the "I" from Marriage

Conservative candidates pledge to uphold the Christian version of Shariah.

Shikha Dalmia | 7.19.2011 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Fundamentalists vs. the First Amendment

Stop worrying about Shariah. Christian fanatics are the ones using the government to restrict individual liberty.

A. Barton Hinkle | 7.19.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

Silly Young Person Wants "Social Network Neutrality"

Mike Riggs | 7.18.2011 4:21 PM

Politics

8th Circuit Says St. Louis Must Tolerate Conspicuous Criticism

Jacob Sullum | 7.18.2011 3:21 PM

Politics

Fear of a Muslim America

In the fight against radical Islam, conservatives are trying to limit the property and speech rights of peaceful American Muslims.

Cathy Young | 7.18.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Obama Even Disappoints Frederick Douglass: Ranks Preserving Union above Ending Slavery

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.17.2011 9:34 PM

Politics

State Governments Set Their Sights on Cigarette Bootleggers

Mike Riggs | 7.15.2011 2:02 PM