Health

Policy

Cancer Takes a Holiday

Nick Gillespie | 1.18.2007 10:22 AM

Policy

How 'Big Nutrition' Destroys Your Will to Fatness

Awash in healthy choices, starving brains seek sugary relief.

Greg Beato | 1.11.2007 5:56 AM

Policy

Who Owns Your Organs?

So You Can't Sell Your Kidneys. Can You Give Them Away?

Kerry Howley | 12.29.2006 9:58 AM

Politics

Update on Bob Barr and Drug Policy

Jacob Sullum | 12.21.2006 4:08 PM

Policy

If Barr Has Come Around, the Sponsors Are in for a Rude Surprise

Jacob Sullum | 12.20.2006 4:49 PM

Policy

Evidence, Schmevidence, Says the Ralph Nader of the Tobacco Industry

Jacob Sullum | 12.6.2006 9:20 AM

Policy

Brookhiser on Medical Marijuana

Radley Balko | 11.29.2006 5:08 PM

Policy

Maturity and Permanent Adolescence in Conservative Journals on Drug Legalization

Brian Doherty | 11.29.2006 3:44 PM

Policy

One More Reason To Hate the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

Nick Gillespie | 11.27.2006 7:50 AM

Policy

Federal Law Does Not Pre-Empt California's Medical Marijuana Policy

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2006 5:09 PM

Politics

The Lows and Highs of Drug Law Reform This Election

Brian Doherty | 11.10.2006 12:16 PM

Policy

Drugs Bring on Paranoia

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.9.2006 2:20 PM

Politics

They Can't Take Your House, But They Can Still Take Your Weed

Jesse Walker | 11.8.2006 10:51 AM

Policy

Trans Fat Free at Last

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2006 12:51 PM

Policy

Should We All Be Like Mike?

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2006 11:35 AM

Policy

Trans Fat Transformation

Jacob Sullum | 10.30.2006 12:42 PM

Policy

Lay Off the Fatties

They're not hurting anybody -- maybe not even themselves.

Jacob Sullum | 10.30.2006 7:29 AM

Policy

How the Upper Crust Eats

Food as a status symbol

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.25.2006 12:27 PM

Policy

Can We Ever Spend Too Much on Biomedical Research?

The answer depends on whom you're asking.

Ronald Bailey | 10.6.2006 3:53 PM

Policy

Foul Shot

Autism and the MMR vaccine

Ronald Bailey | 10.1.2006 9:45 AM

Policy

Rant: The Night Chicago Died

Suddenly, it's hard to be a sinner in the Windy City

Nick Gillespie | 9.4.2006 11:56 AM

Policy

The Accidental Drug Trafficker

A repudiation of prosecutions that treat doctors' errors in judgment as felonies

Jacob Sullum | 8.30.2006 9:56 AM

Policy

The Fried Logic of Food Police

Trans fat in fast food? Who knew?

Jacob Sullum | 8.18.2006 10:27 AM

Policy

AIDS at 25

Where do we stand?

Ronald Bailey | 8.14.2006 1:55 PM

Policy

Abraham vs. Hodgkin

Is a 16-year-old wise enough to decide to skip chemotherapy?

Cathy Young | 8.1.2006 4:03 PM

Policy

Polio, Autism, or Neither?

The autism/vaccine scandal dissipates

Ronald Bailey | 7.24.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Big Brother Prescribes

Are mandatory aerobics classes in your future?

Ronald Bailey | 7.14.2006 2:23 PM

Policy

Big Brother Prescribes

Are mandatory aerobics classes in your future?

Ronald Bailey | 7.14.2006 2:23 PM

Policy

The Battle for Roethlisberger's Brain

Is freedom just another word for falling on your face?

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Patent Remedies

Do we need drug patents?

Brian Doherty | 6.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Are Yanks Sicker Than Brits?

Or are we just a bunch of hypochondriacs?

Ronald Bailey | 5.26.2006 11:12 AM

Politics

Pop Out

The new school beverage policy won't make students noticeably thinner

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2006 10:14 AM

Policy

Of Penises and Pesticides

Are synthetic chemicals responsible for male shortcomings?

Ronald Bailey | 5.5.2006 11:06 AM

Policy

Unfair Food

Obesity litigation twist

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Whites Only Medicine?

Why it's OK if it cures patients

Ronald Bailey | 4.21.2006 11:01 AM

Policy

Is Diabetes a Plague?

Eroding the distinction between public and private health

Ronald Bailey | 3.17.2006 10:46 AM

Politics

Government Kills Blacks With AIDS Virus

The real AIDS conspiracy revealed

Ronald Bailey | 3.10.2006 10:33 AM

Policy

Clean Air Calabasas

A smoke-free, family-friendly atmosphere of moralistic intolerance

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2006 9:40 AM

Politics

Curb Your Enthusiasms

Moralists left and right want to control your carnal desires.

Radley Balko | 3.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Absolution in Your Cup

The real meaning of Fair Trade coffee.

Kerry Howley | 3.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

The Crimes of Pot Justice

When marijuana arrests might be death sentences.

Brian Doherty | 2.6.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Better Not Shop Around

Online cigarette sales.

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

That Chemo Cachet

Medical marijuana and kids.

Jacob Sullum | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Cluster Busters

Fast food near schools.

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The End of Pandemics

Bird flu could be the last super-plague.

Ronald Bailey | 11.11.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Safety, Efficacy, Morality

Ronald Bailey | 11.4.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Does Pot Lead to Suicide for Supreme Court Justices?

Vague Commerce Clause precedents give free rein to personal preferences.

Jacob Sullum | 10.7.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The End of Physician Assisted Suicide?

What the Supreme Court's pot case means for the right to end your life

Ronald Bailey | 10.5.2005 12:00 AM