Privacy

Politics

File Keepers

The government wants to sit on your laptop

Jacob Sullum | 8.6.2008 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

The Public Is Very Interested, but Not Legitimately

Jacob Sullum | 7.25.2008 12:07 PM

Politics

Strip for the Principal

How could anyone think a strip search for Advil was reasonable?

Jacob Sullum | 7.16.2008 7:00 AM

Politics

On Second Thought, Maybe a Strip Search for Advil Isn't Reasonable

Jacob Sullum | 7.11.2008 1:47 PM

Politics

What Are You, a Terrorist?

Jacob Sullum | 7.10.2008 11:30 AM

Science & Technology

Is It Safe?

Mike Riggs | 7.8.2008 5:05 PM

Policy

Set a Camera to Catch a Thief

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.1.2008 12:11 PM

Politics

Would President McCain Obey the Law?

Why his shifting position on wiretaps is cause for concern

Jacob Sullum | 6.25.2008 1:00 PM

Civil Liberties

The Donkey Likes Angry Sex, and the Man Was Playing Hard to Get

Jacob Sullum | 6.16.2008 9:54 AM

Politics

Would President McCain Obey the Law? 'It's Ambiguous.'

Jacob Sullum | 6.11.2008 6:30 PM

Civil Liberties

"And Then They Started Having Sex"

Mike Riggs | 6.11.2008 3:08 PM

Policy

Your Fingerprints Are Literally All Over This Housing Bill

Nick Gillespie | 5.23.2008 11:39 AM

Nanny State

I Want My CCTV

Radley Balko | 5.12.2008 12:51 PM

Politics

Liberty for All

As South Dakota debates an abortion ballot initiative, the question remains: Does the Constitution protect unenumerated rights?

Damon Root | 5.5.2008 3:00 PM

Policy

More DNA Day Fun: To Test, Or Not to Test?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.25.2008 12:19 PM

Nanny State

Erase Your Porn

Radley Balko | 4.23.2008 10:55 AM

Policy

Akron, Too

Radley Balko | 4.21.2008 3:27 PM

Science & Technology

Don't Be Evil, Revisited

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.17.2008 4:28 PM

Politics

Excuse Me While I Post the Sky

Jacob Sullum | 4.4.2008 11:58 AM

Politics

The School Crotch Inspector

Fighting the Advil menace, one strip search at a time

Jacob Sullum | 4.2.2008 7:00 AM

Policy

'Police Are Like Vampires'

Jacob Sullum | 3.26.2008 10:11 AM

Politics

A Clean Page

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2008 6:03 PM

Politics

Stealing Our Sunshine

Radley Balko | 3.20.2008 9:09 AM

Politics

They Ain't Gonna Pee-Pee in No Cup

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2008 10:59 AM

Politics

The FBI's Experiments in Self-Supervision

Jacob Sullum | 3.6.2008 11:03 AM

Politics

Before the House Folds

Jacob Sullum | 2.13.2008 3:01 PM

Politics

The Whys of Spies

The Bush administration's ever-shifting story about the need for new surveillance powers

Jacob Sullum | 2.6.2008 7:02 AM

Civil Liberties

Hiding From REAL ID

Why honest people might run from a national ID card

Kerry Howley | 2.1.2008 7:00 AM

Politics

What a Difference Two Weeks Make

Jacob Sullum | 1.30.2008 2:02 PM

Politics

If The President Doesn't Sign an Extension, Americans Are Going to Die

Jacob Sullum | 1.28.2008 6:51 PM

Politics

Scalia's "New Professionalism" Comes Full Circle

Radley Balko | 1.18.2008 12:03 PM

Politics

Freedom of Travel Is So 1988

Jacob Sullum | 1.10.2008 2:50 PM

Science & Technology

Know Thyself

Or at the very least, Google thyself

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.20.2007 3:00 PM

Politics

Time for Democrats to Lead on FISA

The Republicans are scaremongring, but the Democrats are cowering

Julian Sanchez | 12.20.2007 12:08 PM

Politics

Do Welfare Applicants Forfeit the Fourth Amendment?

Radley Balko | 11.27.2007 3:49 PM

Civil Liberties

Let the Viewer Decide

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman on free speech, complexity, and the trouble with Michael Moore

Jesse Walker | 11.16.2007 3:21 PM

Politics

Americans: Sheep to the Constitutional Slaughter?

An Interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano

Brian Doherty | 11.15.2007 12:02 PM

Policy

It's All About the Parking

Jacob Sullum | 11.9.2007 12:05 PM

Science & Technology

YouTube Tests Honor Among Thieves

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.7.2007 12:59 PM

Science & Technology

WHOIS On First?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.31.2007 5:05 PM

Policy

He Should Have Hung the 'Please Don't Charge Into My Room and Have Me Arrested on a Ridiculous Sex Charge' Sign

Jacob Sullum | 10.30.2007 6:44 PM

Nanny State

Their Eyes Are Watching Loopt

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.23.2007 12:17 PM

Politics

Why Is Retroactive Immunity Necessary to Assure Future Cooperation?

Jacob Sullum | 10.18.2007 1:59 PM

Politics

The Gap in Mukasey's Testimony

Jacob Sullum | 10.18.2007 12:14 PM

Civil Liberties

Kids Are Asked the Darndest Things

Brian Doherty | 10.4.2007 8:13 AM

Politics

Breaking the Law in the Name of the "War on Terror" = Not Breaking The Law

Brian Doherty | 9.20.2007 7:04 PM

Policy

Search Me! Search Me!

Jacob Sullum | 9.20.2007 11:26 AM

Science & Technology

"We Had To Come in Shooting. His Heart Rate Demanded It."

Brian Doherty | 9.18.2007 11:49 AM