Foreign Policy

Cellphones

Here's Why You Shouldn't Use the Fingerprint Password on Smartphones in Virginia

Judge rules suspects can be compelled to use fingerprint to provide police access.

Reason Staff | 10.31.2014 2:20 PM

Cybersecurity

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Sentenced to Prison in Denmark

Gottfrid Warg gets 42 months in jail.

Reason Staff | 10.31.2014 2:10 PM

Politics

Cold War Revival?: Hackers, Harassment, and Nuclear-Equipped Bombers

Zenon Evans | 10.31.2014 1:30 PM

Culture

French Town Bans Clown Costumes Amid Nationwide 'Aggressive Clown' Terror

SPOILER ALERT: This story also involves Clown Hunters

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.31.2014 12:22 PM

Policy

Chuck Hagel Says We Haven't Had Enough War Yet

J.D. Tuccille | 10.31.2014 10:49 AM

Election 2014

Spooky Politicians That Go Bump in the Night

The end of October brings children disguised as pretend ghosts and goblins, and politicians whipping up fears of supposedly real ones.

Christopher Preble | 10.31.2014 10:30 AM

Politics

Rand Paul: GOP Brand "Sucks" Like Domino's Pizza

Nick Gillespie | 10.30.2014 4:33 PM

Politics

America Cannot Kill Its Way Out of the ISIS War

This is not a simple "we win, they lose" scenario.

Zenon Evans | 10.30.2014 4:31 PM

Civil Liberties

Quarantined Ebola Nurse: 'Beautiful Day for a Bike Ride'

Reason Staff | 10.30.2014 4:28 PM

World

U.S. Treasury Struggling to Disrupt ISIS Funding

Lucian McMahon | 10.30.2014 3:18 PM

Politics

This One Picture of Telly Savalas Refutes All Fears That Progress Has Ended

Nick Gillespie | 10.30.2014 1:13 PM

Politics

Tensions High After White House Official Calls Israeli PM 'Chickenshit'

Zenon Evans | 10.30.2014 12:20 PM

World

NATO Jets Intercept Russian Military Flights Over Europe

Reason Staff | 10.30.2014 9:30 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Millennials Abandon Dems, Suderman-Computerman on Obamacare, President John eBolton on "chickenshit," Julian Sanchez on the White House Cyber Attack, and a New Enemy of Freedom That Rhymes With "Yost off 'is"

Matt Welch | 10.29.2014 8:24 PM

Politics

Tonight on "Red Eye": Anthony L. Fisher Talks Catcalls, Ebola Panic and Intolerant Berkeley Students Teach Tolerance to Bill Maher

Anthony Fisher | 10.29.2014 7:02 PM

World

Kurdish Reinforcements Reach Kobani

Turkey puts tensions aside for the moment.

Reason Staff | 10.29.2014 6:04 PM

World

ISIS Nabs New Ground-to-Air Missiles

The usual supply-the-rebels SNAFU.

Reason Staff | 10.29.2014 2:50 PM

Culture

Can ISIS Survive…Mockery?

J.D. Tuccille | 10.29.2014 2:43 PM

Politics

Sugar Subsidies Make Halloween Candy Much More Expensive, Leave Sour After-Taste

Veronique de Rugy | 10.29.2014 2:03 PM

Ebola

Hagel OKs Quarantine for Troops Returning from West Africa

Move goes beyond civilian precautions

Reason Staff | 10.29.2014 12:34 PM

Politics

Vesuvius Caused Less Damage Than Italian Labor Laws

Nick Gillespie | 10.29.2014 11:57 AM

Culture

Stalkers of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Sneaking into a radioactive wasteland

Jesse Walker | 10.29.2014 11:10 AM

Politics

What Will Republicans Do If WHEN They Win the Senate? A Limited-Govt Scenario

Nick Gillespie | 10.29.2014 10:31 AM

Science & Technology

White House Computer Network Was Attacked

Could be work of Russian hackers, sources say

Reason Staff | 10.29.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Did Western Aid Create the Breeding Ground for Ebola?

Aid-dependent Liberian leaders neglect the needs of their people to please Western benefactors.

Shikha Dalmia | 10.28.2014 4:31 PM

Politics

Shikha Dalmia on How Western Aid Contributed to West Africa's Ebola Epidemic

Reason Staff | 10.28.2014 4:31 PM

Politics

"How we 'won' in Vietnam, but are losing at home": Glenn Reynolds

Nick Gillespie | 10.28.2014 3:53 PM

Politics

Rand Paul: Conservative Realist?

The Kentucky senator speaks about ISIS, the Middle East, and when America should go to war

Matt Welch | 10.28.2014 3:30 PM

Civil Liberties

British Authorities Drop 'Extreme Pornography' Charge When They Realize the Tiger Is Actually a Man in a Tiger Suit

The perils of the Extreme Pornography Act.

Jesse Walker | 10.28.2014 12:23 PM

Politics

"Asset forfeiture, drug legalization, and the mainstreaming of libertarian ideas"

Nick Gillespie | 10.28.2014 11:23 AM

Sexism

Brickbat: A Few Good Men Isn't What They're Looking For

Charles Oliver | 10.28.2014 6:00 AM

Russia

Staff at U.S. Embassy in Moscow Face Harassment

Slashed tires and mysterious break-ins

Reason Staff | 10.27.2014 5:15 PM

Sequestration

Hawks Claim Defense Cuts Could Jeopardize ISIS Campaign. They Won't.

Lucian McMahon | 10.27.2014 4:50 PM

Politics

FAIL: State Dept. Spent $3.6 Million on Afghan Goat Carcass Game, and That's Just the Start of It

Zenon Evans | 10.27.2014 2:16 PM

Afghanistan

Marines, NATO Troops Exit Southern Afghanistan

Military presence lessens, but, of course, we still have troops there.

Reason Staff | 10.27.2014 2:05 PM

Ebola

U.S. Soldiers Returnng from Liberia Being Monitored for Ebola

Being placed under observation in Italy

Reason Staff | 10.27.2014 1:35 PM

Politics

Poll: Russians Fear the United States More than ISIS-Type Terrorists

Zenon Evans | 10.27.2014 12:05 PM

Central Intelligence Agency

The CIA Used Nazis (and Lots of Them) to Fight Commies

Scott Shackford | 10.27.2014 11:00 AM

Politics

Should What ISIS Hostages Endured Before Being Murdered Matter to US Policy?

Nick Gillespie | 10.27.2014 9:55 AM

Science & Technology

Watch (and Cringe): U.S. vs. U.K. Media on Ebola

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.27.2014 7:00 AM

World

White House Not Happy About States' Ebola Quarantines

Reason Staff | 10.26.2014 5:30 PM

Politics

Obama's Taylor Swift Strategy: Shake It Off (Remy Remix)

Meredith Bragg | 10.26.2014 1:00 PM

Politics

Sharyl Attkisson's Stonewalled: How the Media Protects Obama

Nick Gillespie | 10.26.2014 9:00 AM

Politics

Why Are the Midterm Elections Turning Off Voters? (Hint: It Involves Dildos)

Nick Gillespie | 10.25.2014 10:14 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Midterm Madness, With Veronique de Rugy, Stephen Hayes, Guy Benson, Richard Fowler, and More!

Matt Welch | 10.24.2014 6:38 PM

Nanny State

Lets Not Import Canada's Sex Work Bill

Canada's new proposals criminalize johns, while decriminalizing those engaged in prostitution.

Noah Berlatsky | 10.24.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Kenny G Backs Down on Hong Kong Support After Chinese Reprimand

Zenon Evans | 10.24.2014 12:40 PM

Policy

Ebola: The Upshot of Liberia's Western Aid Curse

Shikha Dalmia | 10.24.2014 11:06 AM