Health

Policy

Double Your Spending, Double Your Fun

Peter Suderman | 2.1.2012 9:59 AM

Politics

Meet Roscoe Filburn, the Dead Farmer at the Center of the ObamaCare Case

Damon Root | 1.30.2012 6:52 PM

Politics

Why Geezers Are the True Enemy of the Occupy Movement

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 1.30.2012 6:00 PM

Policy

Watching TV Probably Won't Kill You

Peter Suderman | 1.30.2012 10:01 AM

Policy

Maybe Schools Don't Control What Kids Eat

Jacob Sullum | 1.24.2012 4:49 PM

Policy

CDC: If You Drink Enough to Enjoy It, You've Had Too Much

Jacob Sullum | 1.23.2012 6:30 PM

Politics

Mitt Romney's MediScare

Inconsistency is only the beginning of the problems with Mr. Romney's Medicare scare.

Ira Stoll | 1.23.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

"Either Mr. Romney isn't smart enough to realize that these two lines of attack are inconsistent, or he does realize they are inconsistent and is cynical enough to think that voters aren't smart enough to realize they are inconsistent."

Matt Welch | 1.20.2012 10:45 AM

Policy

If Poker Is a Public Health Issue, What Isn't?

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2012 3:48 PM

Politics

ObamaCare's Imaginary Medicare Savings

Peter Suderman | 1.19.2012 10:05 AM

Policy

In Which We Learn That the Government's Innovative Health Policy Reforms Don't Always Work

Peter Suderman | 1.18.2012 3:40 PM

Policy

Will the Obesity Plateau Allow Us to Take a Breather From Paternalistic Panic?

Jacob Sullum | 1.18.2012 11:49 AM

Policy

Cancel the War and Fix the Wounded

Most people don't overindulge. Some do. Let's help the ones who need it, and leave the rest alone.

A. Barton Hinkle | 1.17.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

Nicotine Gum and Patches May Not Work, but at Least They're Officially Approved

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2012 1:33 PM

Policy

3 Reasons Why We Should Raise Medicare's Eligibility Age

Peter Suderman | 1.11.2012 4:14 PM

Politics

Nanny Bloomberg Targets Alcohol

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2012 4:01 PM

Policy

The Raw Milk Party vs. the Party of Pot and Veganism

Jacob Sullum | 1.6.2012 5:00 PM

Policy

Does the DEA Know What Quota Means?

Jacob Sullum | 1.3.2012 6:07 PM

Policy

Will Scotch in a Can Get the Four Loko Treatment?

Jacob Sullum | 1.2.2012 6:15 PM

Policy

Why Medicaid Is No Longer a Voluntary Program

How the Emergency Treatment and Labor Act interferes with state sovereignty

Jeffrey A. Singer | 12.30.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

Why Is There an Adderall Shortage? Because Demand Exceeds Supply. Duh.

Jacob Sullum | 12.28.2011 1:15 PM

Policy

Pain Patient Advocate Siobhan Reynolds Dies in Plane Crash

Jacob Sullum | 12.26.2011 1:34 PM

Policy

Dick Durbin: Ban Flavored Cigars—for the Children

Jacob Sullum | 12.23.2011 2:08 PM

Politics

Why Not Abolish Payroll Taxes Altogether Instead of Screwing Around With a Short-Term, Low-Percentage Cut?

Nick Gillespie | 12.21.2011 11:27 AM

Politics

Great Women of Egypt; Lori Berenson On Parole; Lie of the Year: PM Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.20.2011 5:12 PM

Policy

Reason Writers on TV: Peter Suderman Talks Medicare Payment Follies on Stossel

Reason Staff | 12.19.2011 9:50 AM

Policy

The Doc Fix: A Lesson in How Government Doesn't Work

Peter Suderman | 12.16.2011 3:15 PM

Politics

Republicans Restore Ban on Needle Exchange Funding

Jacob Sullum | 12.16.2011 2:36 PM

Policy

Sen. Ron Wyden: My Medicare Compromise With Paul Ryan Makes Government-Run Medicare Permanent

Peter Suderman | 12.15.2011 3:03 PM

Policy

Paul Ryan's Medicare Compromise

Peter Suderman | 12.15.2011 12:10 PM

Policy

IOM Report Recommends That the FDA Continue Suppressing Lifesaving Information About Cigarette Alternatives

Jacob Sullum | 12.14.2011 5:51 PM

Politics

When Did Gingrich Stop Supporting a Health Insurance Mandate? Did He Ever?

Jacob Sullum | 12.13.2011 3:17 PM

Politics

Medicare Whac-A-Mole

Why health care price controls always fail

Peter Suderman | 12.13.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Biggest Handouts to 1 Percent Are Social Security and Medicare

Nick Gillespie | 12.12.2011 8:33 AM

Policy

Wait, Honey Smacks Have a Lot of Sugar?

Jacob Sullum | 12.8.2011 2:58 PM

Policy

Smart Kids Do Drugs

Jacob Sullum | 12.6.2011 4:28 PM

Policy

Obama's 'Innovative, Compassionate, and Evidence-Based Drug Policies'

Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2011 3:48 PM

Policy

To Prevent Kids From Smoking Cigarettes, New York Bars Adults From Buying Flavored Cigars

Jacob Sullum | 12.2.2011 3:26 PM

Policy

Boston Bans E-Cigarettes in Workplaces, Just Because

Jacob Sullum | 12.2.2011 11:23 AM

Politics

Washington Post: Medicaid "will place the biggest budgetary burden on states"

Peter Suderman | 11.29.2011 9:06 AM

Policy

States Still Struggling to Pay for Medicaid

Peter Suderman | 11.28.2011 12:16 PM

Policy

Roll Your Own, Avoid the Taxes

Jacob Sullum | 11.22.2011 5:18 PM

Politics

Gingrich's 'Right-Wing Social Engineering'

Jacob Sullum | 11.21.2011 4:54 PM

Politics

Nothing Newt Under the Sun

The inevitable rise of Newt Gingrich.

Peter Suderman | 11.18.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Don't Worry: Congress Can Make You Buy Broccoli, but You Don't Have to Eat It (Maybe)

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2011 3:12 PM

Policy

Drop Those Drugs

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 4:37 PM

Policy

Why Employers Will Drop Health Coverage Under ObamaCare

Peter Suderman | 11.16.2011 11:16 AM

Politics

Buyers Beware

Upholding the health insurance mandate would encourage endless meddling in our spending decisions.

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 7:00 AM