Culture
Mike Huckabee Officially Enters the Presidential Race
His speech stresses economic issues, but he also makes it clear that he's a socially conservative hawk.
Man Convicted of Sex on the Beach Likely to Get 15 Years
Excessive PDA, excessive sentencing
Murderer or Musician? Rapper Tiny Doo Reflects on Being Jailed for Rap Lyrics
Is violence in art a crime?
Campus Censorship and Anti-Sex Paranoia: Robby Soave Talks College Culture on Bloggingheads
CUNY Professor Angus Johnston hits back
Freddie Gray Is a Casualty of Baltimore's Police Unions
The police's privilege and self-protectiveness is on rich display in the whole sordid saga.
Bomb Threat at DC GamerGate Meetup Shows There Are Bad Eggs on the Other Side
Militant anti-feminists and scorched-earth social justice warriors deserve equal speech rights
Viral 'Social Experiment' Parenting Video Peddles Outrageously False Claims About Stranger Danger
No, strangers don't grab 700 kids every day
Gender-Neutral Title 'Mx' Embraced by U.K. Officials, May Join Oxford English Dictionary
"This is an example of how the English language adapts to people's needs," says OED editor Jonathan Dent.
'Hacktivist' Hysteria in Baltimore
The debunked #BaltimoreLootCrew tweets find a new way to feed fearmongering.
"College Students are Human Veal"
Abetted by idiot administrators, today's students seem incapable of living in the real world.
With Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, Are Republicans Having a Latino Moment?
Q&A with "Ask a Mexican" columnist Gustavo Arellano
Bomb Threat Targets GamerGate Meetup (Hear From Somebody Who Was There)
Much of the "GamerGate" viciousness can actually be laid at the doors of its opponents
Free Speech Under Fire; Two Gunmen Killed at Texas "Draw Mohammed" Contest
Free speech is never a justification for violence - or submitting to the thug's veto.
The NFL Gives Up Tax Exempt Status. Can We Stop Paying for Stadiums Too?
Top 5 NFL Hits to Taxpayers
WATCH: Is Giving Directly to the Poor a Good Idea?
GiveDirectly co-founder on the value of charitable cash transfers.
The GMO Debate Heats Up (Again)
Courts. Federal, state, and local laws. It's difficult to keep up with all of the developments around genetically modified foods.
Cops Visit Parents After Boy, 4, Takes Off Clothes and Runs Outside
Cops promise "further action" if it happens again
Where Were You in 1995, When the Internet Was Privatized?
Watch the first-ever event devoted to "Internet Independence Day," when the government got out of the business of running the Internet backbone.
Friday A/V Club: I'm So Old, I Remember When Liberals Protested Military Exercises Conducted on U.S. Soil
From Operation Urban Warrior to Jade Helm 15
Gene-Editing Human Embryos Is Ethical
Bioethicists and scientists who say otherwise are wrong.
Movie Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron Is Fun, But Crowded
Joss Whedon, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, and company versus the looming Marvel mothership.
145 Intellectuals Agree: Dead Cartoonists Aren't Worthy of Free-Speech Award if Their Murderers Come From a Disadvantaged Minority
Charlie Hebdo's posthumous critics pen an authoritarian anti-speech manifesto
Bill Bennett's Pot Prevarications
A former drug czar's dazed and confused defense of marijuana prohibition
The Latest Microaggression: Educating Students About… Microaggression!
Triggers all the way down
Don't Close the American Mind
There is nothing 'open-minded' about using government to punish disfavored views.
Hacking Marriage
Polyamory, creative prenups, platonic co-parenting, open marriage, and the power of contracts
Open Worlds and Endless Lives
How massive, explorable environments brought a new era of choice to video games.
Lego Store Detains 11-Year-Old Boy for Shopping Without Dad
Store: It should be obvious to any good parent that children under 12 shouldn't be in a store unattended."
"Trigger Warning: College Kids Are Human Veal"
WTF is wrong with kids these days and, more important, the supposed adults who look after them?
Vince Vaughn: Rand Paul's the Best in 2016, But Ron's 'the most consistent'
Actor talks libertarianism at a Young Americans for Liberty conference
Scandinavia is a Collectivist Paradise? Not So Much.
A touch too much in the way of conformity, high taxes, and "benign totalitarianism"