Maryland Parents who Let Kids Walk to Park Still Under Investigation
CPS won't let parents be.
Culture
Our Searches, Ourselves: What Google Says About Our Sexual Psyches
We like big butts, for one thing.
Students Newspapers Desecrating Free Speech: A Transformation, or Return to Form?
The cycle of censorship rears its ugly head.
Boehner Uses the Snowstorm as an Excuse to Pull Border Security Bill
McCaul bill's untimely death shows the impotence of the House leadership on immigration reform
Clearly What Indianans Need Is a Taxpayer-Funded State News Outlet
Governor proposes his own media coverage.
Why Jameis Winston Is a Huge Exception in the Campus Rape Debate
Some rape accusations are true. Some are not.
Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Government's Embarrassing Friend
It's time to end support for a regime that sees beating as a merciful alternative to execution for dissenters.
Just What Patriots' Deflategate Scandal Needed: U.S. Congressmen
Government is once again threatening to use tax dollars to meddle in the affairs of private sports leagues.
Charlie Hebdo and the Horrible History of Suppressing 'Blasphemy'
An unwelcome blast from France's oppressive past.
Cops Are Still Robbers
Eric Holder's new forfeiture policy affects only a small share of seizures.
Venerating Lincoln
A history of Abraham Lincoln's critics would be improved if the author weren't so smitten with Lincoln himself.
Red Army Film Explores Hockey, The Cold War, and Sports as Propaganda
Filmmaker Gabe Polsky and Russian hockey star Slava Fetisov discuss the new documentary about the Soviet national hockey team.
Heathen Arizona Mayor Dares Besmirch All-Powerful NFL
Most politicians play along with the Super Bowl's crony economic propaganda-not the mayor of Glendale.
Mortdecai and Black Sea
Johnny Depp's sad career slide continues, Jude Law goes for the gold.
Let Slip the Robots of War
Lethal autonomous weapon systems might be more moral than human soldiers.
Barrett Brown Gets 63 Months in Jail, Nearly a Million Fine
'Anonymous'-linked journalist convicted for issues arising from an FBI investigation into non-crimes.
Lenore Skenazy's New Show Brings Free-Range Parenting to Your TV Screen
Show airs Thursdays at 9 pm on Discovery Life
Boston City Employees Banned From Criticizing Olympics
Boston hasn't even been awarded the 2024 Olympics yet, and many of its citizens are already having their civil liberties violated.
Daniel Hannan: 'Instead of making documentaries about powerful, shadowy terrorist networks, let's laugh at the numpties'
The British MEP challenges the conservative consensus on terror and Islam.
Hyphenated Americans Don't Undermine America
Their hyphen makes them appreciate America in a way that natives can't
No Asylum: Immigrants Locked Up in U.S. after Fleeing Violence
A look at America's expanding immigration detention system
Conservatives Rethink Liberty vs. Order
The authoritarian element of conservative thought persists, but it may be getting weaker.
How the ADA and a Lawsuit Mill Could Turn Out the Lights on One of New York's Last Punk Rock Bars
Manitoba's, one of the last punk rock dive bars in New York's East Village, fights for its life.
Illinois Schools Now Have Terrifying Access to Kids' Social Media Passwords
To quell cyber-bullying, administrators would abolish privacy.
Steven Soderbergh, Copyright Hypocrite?
The filmmaker takes one approach to intellectual property in court, another in his own work.
BPA Safe: Yet Another Scientifically Unfounded Environmentalist Scare Bites the Dust
European Food Safety Authority finds "no consumer health risk from bisphenol-A exposure."
Obama SOTU: We've "Turned the Page"; But What We Need is a Whole New Book
The president's tired rhetoric and policy proposals show that we've not yet entered the 21st century in politics.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown on the Allegedly Elusive Libertarian Woman
Plus: how to promote social norms without injecting state violence into them.
Pew: Americans Say Obama is a "Good Man" Who is "Incompetent"
While most of us will be tuning out tonight's SOTU, here's a reason to watch: It frames the president's thinking about the next year.
The State of the Union Address Will Be Awful, Because the State of the Union Address Is Always Awful
Let's go back to the Jeffersonian system.
States Move to Deregulate Homemade Food in 2015
Lawmakers target overregulation of small-scale milk, meat, and "cottage food" producers
