Top-Down Political Cowardice Helped Make Charlie Hebdo a Lonely Target
From Jimmy Carter to Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama to John Kerry, politicians have led the abandonment of free speech.
From Jimmy Carter to Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama to John Kerry, politicians have led the abandonment of free speech.
Stealth alcohol prohibition in the guise of an anti-cancer campaign.
Courts block laws regulating algorithms and online porn.
Long before Wicked came along, America's homegrown fairyland was filled with politics.
An HBO series set in the Batman universe reminds us that when a substance is outlawed, the market will provide one way or another.
Playing this digital collection of new retro-style games is like rediscovering a box of old cartridges.
An Italian bitcoin enthusiast pays homage to the person or people who started the cryptocurrency revolution.
Movies like Wicked draw on classic works no longer under copyright protection.
"Jesus said, 'Love your enemy.' Jesus didn't say, 'Execute the hell out of the enemy,'" the Catholic nun and anti–death penalty activist tells Reason.
Canyon Independent School District pulled sections of the Bible from its library shelves over concerns that its "sexually explicit" material violated Texas law.
Historian Anthony Gregory explains how liberalism can be used to build an apparatus of repression.
Charities can focus resources on those who genuinely need a hand while saying no to those who just need "a kick in the butt."
The English city protects its historical sites while embracing growth and redevelopment.
Annunciation House feeds, shelters, and clothes immigrants. State officials say it's "systemic criminal conduct."
A Haitian art exhibit in Washington, D.C., reminds us there is much more to the country than false allegations about eating cats.
Temperance activists argued that "the people" should have a say in how many alcohol sellers could serve a given neighborhood.
Flawed as it may be, the U.S. Freedom of Information Act became a model in transparency for other countries to follow.
Jeffrey Edward Green, author of Bob Dylan: Prophet Without God, discusses Dylan’s fraught relationship with political activism, Christianity, and self-mythology.
With a name inspired by a controversial police surveillance technology, Bop Spotter scans the streets for ambient tunes.
The House Ethics Committee's findings, combined with Gaetz's lack of relevant experience, again raise the question of why Donald Trump picked him for attorney general.
Without a fix, churches and other places of worship could lose their clergy.
Nearly half of the universities in the College Football Playoff are located in states where sports betting is illegal.
Our capital's brutalist architecture is on display at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
Former VJ Dave Holmes explores the channel's history on his podcast, Who Killed the Video Star.
The president-elect's lawsuit against The Des Moines Register is a patently frivolous and constitutionally dubious attempt to intimidate the press.
Hannah Hiatt isn't the first parent to face child welfare investigations sparked by an internet mob.
The fiasco around the “Syrian prisoner” filmed by CNN demonstrates that sometimes institutions aren’t the best judges of misinformation.
The host of This Week repeatedly and inaccurately asserted that Trump had been "found liable for rape."
Proponents call it modernization, but watchdogs see a path to censorship.
Pharmacological Perennialism crossed paths with the Catholic Church at a previously unreported "holy meeting."
December 17 is a day for mourning sex workers lost to violence and for drawing attention to conditions—like criminalization—that put sex workers at risk.
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Using force to make people give up drugs is both dangerous and morally wrong.
What began as a vibrant, organic solution to a crisis has been stifled by overregulation.
Brandy Moore, who stopped using meth midway through her pregnancy, was charged with "aggravated domestic violence" because she decided not to have an abortion.
Unleashing such force on a broad scale will not result in precise, humane, and just results.
More laws couldn’t have stopped the crime and won’t stop people from making their own weapons.
Francis Ford Coppola's new film has traces of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
"Our mainstream media is hell-bent on tearing down the future before we can get too good a glimpse," the publisher wrote in the debut issue.
More than a month after Election Day, the race has been called in favor of Amendment 2.
A new type of sore-loser law.
NBC reports the assassin's video game habits, as if they matter.