Public Health

Politics

Listen to the Complete Audio of This Morning's Supreme Court Hearing on ObamaCare's Severability

Peter Suderman | 3.28.2012 12:50 PM

Politics

Are Food Trucks Really Like Child Molesters?

California law would ban nouveau chuckwagons from locating near schools.

Kennedy | 3.25.2012 10:00 AM

Policy

Harris Poll Reflects and Reinforces Incoherent Thinking About 'Public Health'

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 3:28 PM

Policy

6th Circuit Approves Cigarette Warning Labels and Suppression of Risk Information but Rejects Ad Limits

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2012 6:56 PM

Policy

It Might Be Premature to Blame 'Meth Babies' for Imposing 'Tremendous Burdens on Society'

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2012 5:52 PM

Policy

Do People Eat Too Much Because They Enjoy It Too Little?

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2012 3:37 PM

Policy

Wouldn't It Be Easier to List the Places Where Smoking Is Not Prohibited?

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2012 4:04 PM

Politics

Federal Judge Says the Government Can't Use Cigarette Packages for Anti-Smoking Propaganda

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2012 12:07 PM

Policy

Mark Bittman: Government Is 'on Our Side' When It Stops Us From Eating What We Want to Eat

Jacob Sullum | 2.27.2012 1:55 PM

Policy

The Super Bowl Measles Epidemic That Wasn't: Reason #4,362 to Get Your Kids Vaccinated

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.24.2012 2:55 PM

Politics

No Explanation but Corruption for Wanting to Cut Beer Taxes?

Jacob Sullum | 2.21.2012 2:57 PM

Policy

North Carolina Food Inspector Rejects Little Girl's Home-Packed Lunch in Favor of Chicken Nuggets

Jacob Sullum | 2.14.2012 7:24 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

Policy

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

Jacob Sullum | 1.19.2012 3:48 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

Politics

Nanny Bloomberg Targets Alcohol

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2012 4:01 PM

Policy

Will Scotch in a Can Get the Four Loko Treatment?

Jacob Sullum | 1.2.2012 6:15 PM

Policy

Dick Durbin: Ban Flavored Cigars—for the Children

Jacob Sullum | 12.23.2011 2:08 PM

Politics

Republicans Restore Ban on Needle Exchange Funding

Jacob Sullum | 12.16.2011 2:36 PM

Policy

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

Jacob Sullum | 12.14.2011 5:51 PM

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

Policy

Roll Your Own, Avoid the Taxes

Jacob Sullum | 11.22.2011 5:18 PM

Policy

Fast Food Is Not a Poor Choice

Jacob Sullum | 11.10.2011 12:11 PM

Politics

Phobos-Grunt, We Hardly Knew Ye

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.9.2011 2:51 PM

Policy

Better Off Vaping

Jacob Sullum | 11.9.2011 12:46 PM

Policy

Public Health and the Tyranny of the Common Good

Mississippi's proposed "personhood" amendment extends progressivism to the uterus.

A. Barton Hinkle | 11.8.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Federal Judge Blocks New Cigarette Warning Labels

Jacob Sullum | 11.7.2011 3:48 PM

Policy

Want to Live Forever? Sonia Arrison Explains How In Her New Book

Paul Feine and Sharif Matar | 10.19.2011 12:50 PM

Policy

Mark Bittman Corrects Fact-Resistant Food Policy Analysts…Such As Mark Bittman

Jacob Sullum | 10.17.2011 3:09 PM

Policy

FTC Claims Phusion Projects Misled Consumers by Implying They Could Drink Four Loko Out of the Can

Jacob Sullum | 10.4.2011 6:15 PM

Policy

Bloomberg: Paternalism Is 'Government's Highest Duty'

Jacob Sullum | 10.3.2011 4:16 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Couple Heading to Court after Hosting Home Bible Study! (Nanny of the Month, Sept 2011)

Ted Balaker | 10.3.2011 3:00 PM

Policy

If Traffic Deaths Were Rising, Would the Los Angeles Times Be Less Alarmed?

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 5:31 PM

Policy

Does Disease Cause Autocracy?

New studies say reducing infection rates promotes liberalization.

Ronald Bailey | 9.16.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Smoking Bans Are No Match For New Yorkers

Anthony Fisher | 9.15.2011 3:00 PM

Policy

Sebelius Assured Congress She Could Fix ObamaCare's CLASS Act. HHS's Proposed Legislative Fix Suggests She Believed Otherwise.

Peter Suderman | 9.15.2011 11:15 AM

Politics

Bachmann's Vaccine Panic

Baseless fear-mongering from the Minnesota conservative

Steve Chapman | 9.15.2011 7:00 AM