Public Health

Policy

Suicide Watch

Why is the FDA scaring people about antidepressants?

Jacob Sullum | 3.26.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Happy Birthday, Love Canal

Some disasters aren't all they're cracked up to be

Ronald Bailey | 3.24.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Fast Food Damnation

Why worry about stupid lawsuits?

Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Lards And Stripes

Fat people made America great, and America makes great people fat

Nick Gillespie | 3.8.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Balance Sheet

Reason Staff | 2.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Bad Blood

To fight AIDS, lift the ban on immigrants with HIV

Jonathan Rauch | 1.12.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Label Me

Technology will make labeling battles moot.

Ronald Bailey | 1.8.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Balance Sheet

Reason Staff | 1.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Snuff Treatment

Lying in the name of public health

Jacob Sullum | 12.26.2003 12:00 AM

Politics

Food Fight

Anti-fat police are ready to bust heads

Kelly Torrance | 12.23.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 12.1.2003 12:00 AM

Politics

35 Years of reason

A history in excerpts

Reason Staff | 12.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Smallpox Is Bush's Worst Failure

But he can fix the problem

Jonathan Rauch | 11.17.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Letters

Reason Staff | 11.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Enough Already

A leading environmentalist makes a foolish case against technological innovation.

Ronald Bailey | 10.1.2003 12:00 AM

Politics

Lawsuit Pre-emption

No Big Mac attacks

Jacob Sullum | 10.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Chocolate Medicine

Do we need permission for pleasure?

Jacob Sullum | 8.27.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

The Morning After

Pharmacies and medical freedom

Sara Rimensnyder | 8.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Account Balance

Can the government really ensure "corporate accountability"?

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Conflicted Science

How to ensure integrity in science

Ronald Bailey | 7.16.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

The Anti-Pleasure Principle

The "food police" and the pseudoscience of self-denial

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Thinning the Herd

Is your weight the government's business?

Jacob Sullum | 6.13.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Time For Tubby Bye Bye?

Fat as a public health issue

Ronald Bailey | 6.11.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Quacks and Flacks

The pitfalls of seeking a scientific foundation for alternative medicine.

Chris Mooney | 6.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

This Is Maine On Drugs

If you loved rent control, you'll die for drug price controls

Ronald Bailey | 5.21.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Weak Link

New grounds for skepticism about secondhand smoke claims

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2003 12:00 AM

Politics

SARS Wars

How science and technology protect us from government failures

Ronald Bailey | 4.30.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

SARS: Panic or plague?

Misinformation spreads even faster than the virus itself.

Declan McCullagh | 4.17.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Heartstopping Discovery

Do smoking bans cut heart attacks in half?

Jacob Sullum | 4.4.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Good for the Heart

Benefits of drinking

Jacob Sullum | 4.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

The Killer Fog

When green politics masquerades as environmental science.

Todd Seavey | 4.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Disease, Public Health, and Liberty

Global diseases as a tragedy of the commons

Ronald Bailey | 3.19.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

The Dose Makes the Cure

Toxicologist Edward Calabrese finds that what does not kill you can make you stronger.

Brian Doherty | 3.12.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Gary Taubes tries to overwhelm the reader with sheer verbiage

Reason Staff | 3.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

An exercise in vitriol rather than sound journalism

Gary Taubes | 3.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Kosher Cops

Should the government enforce dietary laws?

Jacob Sullum | 2.28.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

CASA de Tonter�­a

Neoprohibitionists try to vindicate a bogus number.

Jacob Sullum | 2.26.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Pinch Hit

Oral snuff as an alternative to cigarettes

Jacob Sullum | 2.5.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Pox Americana

Stop Whining, America, and Get Serious about Smallpox

Jonathan Rauch | 2.3.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

If the Fat Suit Fits…

For the litigious, fat acceptance and the war on obesity both have something to offer.

Jacob Sullum | 1.13.2003 12:00 AM

Politics

Head Games

What are the rules for defining mental illness?

Jacob Sullum | 1.1.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

The Booze Tube

Must teenagers be shielded from beer commercials?

Jacob Sullum | 12.20.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Hazy Reasoning

Are smoky bars and restaurants intolerable?

Jacob Sullum | 12.13.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

On Steroids?

The Times bulks up its anti-supplement coverage.

Ronald Bailey | 12.6.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Hold the Lard!

The Atkins Diet still doesn't work.

Michael Fumento | 12.5.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 12.1.2002 12:00 AM

Politics

Big Fat Idiots

Fast food lawsuits

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2002 12:00 AM

Policy

Special Education Confidential

How schools use the "learning disability" label to cover up their failures.

Lisa Snell | 12.1.2002 12:00 AM