Culture

Civil Liberties

The TSA…for Kids!

Propaganda video of the day.

Jesse Walker | 9.7.2014 3:40 PM

Politics

Drew Carey Pledges $10,000 Reward to Find Perps Behind Cruel ALS Prank

Nick Gillespie | 9.7.2014 10:53 AM

Politics

Don't Let Hacked Celebrity Pics Shut Down Internet Freedom, Expression

Nick Gillespie | 9.7.2014 10:47 AM

Culture

Vid: Black Americans Failed by Good Intentions: An Interview with Jason Riley

Nick Gillespie and Anthony Fisher | 9.7.2014 9:30 AM

Culture

Price of a College Degree too High? Blame Football!

Paul Detrick | 9.6.2014 3:00 PM

Policy

Food Trucks Have Turned the Corner

Are we at the dawn of a new era for food trucks?

Baylen Linnekin | 9.6.2014 8:00 AM

Politics

Do They Have White Zinfandel in Prison? Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell's Secret Shame

Nick Gillespie | 9.5.2014 9:46 PM

Policy

Leaping From Mouse to Man, Researchers Warn That E-Cigarettes Could Make You Snort Cocaine

Jacob Sullum | 9.5.2014 5:11 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Food Fight! Featuring Katherine Mangu-Ward, Baylen Linnekin, John Tierney, and More!

Matt Welch | 9.5.2014 5:09 PM

Sports

Shaq Wants to Be a Cop

Didn't he get schooled by Aaron Carter that one time? The early 2000s were weird.

Reason Staff | 9.5.2014 5:00 PM

Culture

The Countercultural Appeal of 19 Kids and Counting

Considering most of what we see on TV, the Duggar family is basically transgressive.

David Harsanyi | 9.5.2014 4:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Kentucky Man Arrested for 'Terroristic Threatening' After Posting Thrash Metal Lyrics to Facebook

Damon Root | 9.5.2014 1:27 PM

Movies

Friday A/V Club: Eugenicsploitation

When reformers accept the premises of the system.

Jesse Walker | 9.5.2014 12:03 PM

E-cigarettes

Study: E-Cigarettes Offer Far More Benefits Than Harms to Smokers and Bystanders

Ronald Bailey | 9.5.2014 12:03 PM

Culture

Wetlands and The Longest Week

A wild German import, and a limp Woody Allen tribute Jason Bateman can't quite save.

Kurt Loder | 9.5.2014 9:00 AM

Economics

One-Third of Americans Are Freelancers Now

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.5.2014 8:30 AM

Policy

Guy Tells Bad Joke, Finds Himself in LAPD Sniper Scope

Zenon Evans | 9.4.2014 3:55 PM

Civil Liberties

Police Keep Killing Mentally Ill Teens, Too

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.4.2014 2:55 PM

Politics

"Hacked Celebrity Pics Should Not Be an Excuse To Throttle Our Free and Open Internet"

Nick Gillespie | 9.4.2014 1:57 PM

Culture

Facebook Messenger Censors (Some of) Your Favorite Porn Sites

Guess which ones made the list and which ones didn't.

Zenon Evans | 9.4.2014 1:25 PM

Surveillance

FBI's Abuse of National Security Letters Seems to Have Lessened—Except Maybe Against Journalists

Scott Shackford | 9.4.2014 12:50 PM

Economics

The Eight-Hour-Every-Two-Years Trailer Casino: The Gloriously Weird Loopholes of Licensing Laws

Brian Doherty | 9.3.2014 11:23 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: U.S. vs. ISIL, Russia vs. Ukraine, Michelle Obama vs. Satire, Ebola, Rape-Victim Child Support, Kinder/Gentler Drug Courts, Plus After-show

Matt Welch | 9.3.2014 8:27 PM

Civil Liberties

Woman Charged With Hate Crime for Anti-NYPD Graffitti

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.3.2014 7:30 PM

Nanny State

Give a Panhandler a Buck, Get Ticketed by San Antonio Cops

J.D. Tuccille | 9.3.2014 3:26 PM

Politics

Grover Norquist on Burning Man: 'This is the way the world should be'

Matt Welch | 9.3.2014 1:03 PM

Culture

Michelle Obama Does Funny or Die, Because Junk Food is Killing Us All

And it's not funny. At all.

Robby Soave | 9.3.2014 12:18 PM

Sports

Michael Sam Update: Off to Texas

Scott Shackford | 9.3.2014 10:20 AM

Politics

Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?!

Focus on your own kids and stop criminalizing parenthood

Tyler Koteskey | 9.3.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Latest ISIL Beheading, Grover Norquist Tells All About Burning Man, Report from the Russo-Ukrainian Mini-war, Leaked Nudes, Revolving Cantor, NSA, Minimum Wage, Plus After-show!

Matt Welch | 9.2.2014 8:04 PM

Politics

No, a Democratic Candidate Didn't Wish Ebola on the NRA

Zenon Evans | 9.2.2014 5:10 PM

ISIS

Video Appears to Show Second American Journalist's Execution by Islamic State (Updated)

Video of Steven Sotloff appears online

Reason Staff | 9.2.2014 4:36 PM

Biotechnology

The New Yorker Rebuts Bioluddite Disinformationist Vandana Shiva

Ronald Bailey | 9.2.2014 4:06 PM

Entrepreneurship

Guy Who Tried to Shut Down Kid's Lemonade Stand Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine. And That Totally Sucks.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.2.2014 12:50 PM

Politics

"The Hunger Games, The Giver and Divergent all depict rebellions against the state, and promote a tacit right-wing libertarianism"

Nick Gillespie | 9.2.2014 12:44 PM

Politics

That Time the President, the FBI, and a Moonlighting Supreme Court Justice Tried to Dig Up Dirt on a Movie Star

When LBJ ordered an investigation of George Hamilton.

Jesse Walker | 9.2.2014 11:35 AM

Civil Liberties

What Policing Should Look Like

How can we build an ethical police force based upon the concept of Constitutional policing by consent?

Stephen Downing | 9.2.2014 8:30 AM

Politics

If Democrats Seek to "Rally Blacks" Against Police Militarization, They Might Start with the Congressional Black Caucus

Nick Gillespie | 9.1.2014 1:54 PM

Sports

Looks Like Michael Sam Might Not Be First Out NFL Player

Scott Shackford | 9.1.2014 11:35 AM

Culture

Gay Marriage and the Limits of Tradition

We treasure the customs and practices passed down from our ancestors. And we change them anytime we want.

Steve Chapman | 9.1.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Video: P.J. O'Rourke on Millennials vs. Baby Boomers

Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller | 8.31.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Hillary Clinton's Millennial Problem (and the Democrats')

Nick Gillespie | 8.30.2014 10:51 AM

Policy

Portuguese Food Co-op Fights Back Against EU-Mandated Waste

Baylen Linnekin speaks with Maria Canelhas from Fruta Feia, which has saved literally tons of great food from the garbage.

Baylen Linnekin | 8.30.2014 8:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The War on War

Matt Welch | 8.29.2014 7:49 PM

Policy

GWU Prez Should Not Apologize for Remark About Drunk Girls and Rape

That doesn't make him entirely right, though.

Robby Soave | 8.29.2014 5:05 PM