Shocked to Death
Tasers under fire.
Criminal Justice
How to Silence a Racket
The Justice Department's tobacco lawsuit threatens freedom of speech
Drug Test Nation
Get a whiff of the new pot-sniffing technologies, coming to a highway near you
Crime-Friendly Neighborhoods
How "New Urbanist" planners sacrifice safety in the name of "openness" and "accessibility"
Gluttons for Punishment
The Supreme Court's expansion of judicial sentencing discretion could provoke a dangerous congressional backlash.
Civil Liberties and Enemy Combatants
Why the Supreme Court's widely praised rulings are bad for America.
Justice Department To America: Lock and Load!
But the shooting will continue in the political war over guns
Making A Federal Case Out of Almost Everything
It's time to rediscover constitutional limits
Healers and Dealers
Prosecuting doctors for their patients' misuse of narcotics hurts people in pain
Tripped Up
Joel Miller's Bad Trip kills the government's anti-drug buzz. A Reason interview
Welcome to the Fun-Free University
The return of in loco parentis is killing student freedom.
David Simon Says
The creator of HBO's The Wire talks about the decline of journalism, the failure of the drug war, and a new kind of TV.
Dr. Feelscared
Drug warriors put the fear of prosecution in physicians who dare to treat pain.
John Kerry's Monstrous Record on Civil Liberties
The Man from Beacon Hill's "New War" on the Constitution
Criminal Representation
Did Congress quietly make it a crime for lawyers to defend terror suspects?
Teenage Wasteland
Critics on the left and right falsely portray kids as passive victims of mass media.
