10 Ridiculous Recent Food-Marketing Lawsuits
And why these class-action endeavors are on the rise. (Hint: it's not consumer protection.)
Culture
Senators Urge Sessions to Keep Trump's Promise of Marijuana Federalism
The attorney general's private assurances, like his public threats, are vague and noncommittal.
Movie Review: Logan
Hugh Jackman's Wolverine farewell introduces a new possibility for the series' future.
Baseball Star Jose Abreu Ate His Fake Passport on Flight to the U.S.
The Cuban defector and Chicago White Sox star's bizarre tale is indicative of how ridiculous immigration policy can be.
The Federal Ban on Sports Betting Is Unfair, Unnecessary, and Unconstitutional
A new CEI paper argues that states should be free to decriminalize March Madness wagers.
Everybody Agrees This Trans Wrestler Should Compete With Boys, but Government Is the Barrier
Culture is adapting, slowly. Forced solutions make things messier.
Islam Without Extremes: The Muslim Case for Liberty
Q&A with author and New York Times columnist Mustafa Akyol.
Libertarians Should Go See Moonlight
The year's best movie shows the consequences of drug war authoritarianism without lecturing the audience.
The Solutions Are Sitting Around a Campfire, Not In Congress
Everything's going to be more or less ok.
Fifty Years After Titicut Follies, Frederick Wiseman Collects an Oscar
Wiseman made the only movie in U.S. history to be banned for reasons other than obscenity or national security.
At Independent Spirit Awards, Casey Affleck Vindicates Reason TV, Karl Marx With Victory Speech
Forget about history repeating itself first as tragedy, then as farce. Manchester By The Sea star goes directly to farce.
Don't Look Now, But Michigan's Restricting Wine Shipments Again
Michigan lawmakers and the Twenty-First Amendment stink.
Best Political Speech by an Entertainment Celebrity: Who Will Win?
Dissent is the highest form of stardom.
Remix Culture Meets the Scolds
Friday A/V Club: A president gets remixed and the establishment frets.
Movie Review: Get Out
Jordan Peele launches his movie career with an instant horror classic.
"Your Papers Please" Becomes Harsh Reality for Passengers on Domestic San Francisco to New York Flight
Customs and Border Protection offer only their authority at the border as excuse for demanding papers from citizens on domestic flight in fruitless search for someone "ordered removed by an immigration judge."
Danish Man Who Burned a Koran on Facebook Will Be Prosecuted For Blasphemy
Denmark's first blasphemy prosecution since 1971.
Public School Bans Pro-Diversity Posters to Avoid Offending Pro-Trump Snowflakes
Maryland school district insists "both sides" be heard on any political statement or none at all.
Trump Is Not an Anti-Semite. He Is Just a Jerk.
Ivanka Trump, unlike her father, understands that sympathy, not hostility, is the right response to people worried by anti-Jewish bomb threats.
Retreat From Electoral Vote Boast Shows Trump Can Be Forced to Acknowledge Reality
The president says he expects the press to challenge his alternative facts.
Deregulation of Local Foods Is a Winning Idea That's Spreading
New bills in Montana and California would make it easier for small food entrepreneurs to thrive and for consumers to have more choices.
Great Balls of Fire, Sun Records Puts on a Show
CMT explores rock's roots, while CBS presents a spinoff to a popular legal drama.
Florists Join Bakers, Photographers in Court Ruling Ordering Them to Serve Gay Weddings
You will bring me flowers, or else.
Is it Religious Liberty or Discrimination? Yes.
State-level attempts at religious liberty laws pose difficult questions.
Lawmakers and Regulators Act Like They Hate Farmers Markets
Existential threats from meddlesome rulemakers
Flemming Rose Against the Worldwide Suppression of Speech
"I am not willing to sacrifice freedom of expression on the altar of cultural diversity."
Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four Describes the Authoritarian Left Better Than It Does Trump
Trump haters rush to buy the famous dystopian novel.
Movie Review: John Wick: Chapter 2
Back to kill city with the unstoppable Keanu Reeves.
Mississippi Is the Most Religious and Vermont the Least Religious of the States
Hmm. I wonder what other comparisons might one make?
California Teachers' Pension System Lowers Projection, Potentially Tripling What Taxpayers Will Owe
And how baseball can explain complicated pension math.
No Super Bowl Sex-Trafficking Hordes in Houston
Where were all the Super Bowl 2017 sex-traffickers? Living only in activist and law-enforcement imaginations, it seems.
Was the Super Bowl Too Politicized, Is Trump Losing His Sh*t & Is Betsy DeVos Toast? [Reason Podcast]
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch discuss news, politics, and culture.
