Nanny State

Policy

Online Education Is Lonely, Joyless, and One-Size-Fits-All, Says New York Times Columnist Who Has Apparently Never Been on the Internet

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.20.2012 12:44 PM

Policy

For the Obama Administration, Conceding Marijuana's Medical Potential Does Not Mean Rethinking the Federal Ban

Jacob Sullum | 7.20.2012 12:41 PM

Politics

Americans Wanted SCOTUS to Overturn ObamaCare, and They're Glad It Didn't

Jacob Sullum | 7.19.2012 5:15 PM

Politics

Would President Mitt Romney "Vigorously Enforce" Obscenity Laws?

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.19.2012 4:40 PM

Politics

How to Build a Mosque in Tennessee

Ed Krayewski | 7.19.2012 2:39 PM

Policy

Canadian Kinder Egg Contraband Confiscation Controversy, Continued

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.19.2012 2:03 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: How the Government Makes You Fat - Gary Taubes on Obesity, Carbs, and Bad Science

Zach Weissmueller | 7.19.2012 12:55 PM

Politics

Obama Administration Will Review Clarence Aaron's Commutation Petition and the Clemency Process

Jacob Sullum | 7.19.2012 12:13 PM

Policy

In Praise of the Corner Liquor Store

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.19.2012 11:23 AM

Politics

Elizabeth Warren, Again: "Nobody got rich on their own. Nobody."

Matt Welch | 7.19.2012 10:53 AM

Politics

Truth in Trials Act (H.R. 6134) to Protect Medical Marijuana Patients: Reps Barney Frank and Ron Paul are Supporters

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.18.2012 10:04 PM

Politics

YouTube Face Blurring Tech Latest Google Thwarting of Authoritarian Governments

Ed Krayewski | 7.18.2012 6:01 PM

Politics

Would Family-Friendly TV Fare Disappear Without the FCC?

Jacob Sullum | 7.18.2012 5:05 PM

Politics

California's Ballot Initiatives: A Top Ten List Too Boring for Letterman or Buzzfeed

Scott Shackford | 7.18.2012 4:52 PM

Policy

"Good Samaritan" Laws For Overdose Emergencies Get More Good Press

Brian Doherty | 7.18.2012 4:01 PM

Politics

Constitution, Schmonstitution, Bloomberg Says

Jacob Sullum | 7.18.2012 1:14 PM

Policy

The Dumbest Argument for Censorship That You Will Read Today

Jesse Walker | 7.18.2012 10:32 AM

Politics

The Truth About "Deep Throat"

A new book sheds light on the Watergate whistleblower's real motives.

Athan Theoharis | 7.18.2012 9:00 AM

Politics

Obamacare's Unenforceable Linchpin

The mandate to buy health insurance becomes an easily avoided tax.

Jacob Sullum | 7.18.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Caitlin Moran Knows How To Be a Woman and You Don't

Popular feminist yuk-fest is really a class-based etiquette book.

Brendan O'Neill | 7.17.2012 7:00 PM

Politics

That Slam Against Pot Smokers Came Out of Nowhere, Man

Jacob Sullum | 7.17.2012 6:29 PM

Politics

Enyclopedia Brown: The Grown-Up Years

Jesse Walker | 7.17.2012 12:33 PM

Politics

Detroit Police Unions Seriously Wonder Why Their Officers Are Paid So Little

Scott Shackford | 7.16.2012 7:07 PM

Policy

Newark's Mayor Calls the Drug War 'Big Overgrown Government at Its Worst'

Jacob Sullum | 7.16.2012 7:06 PM

Politics

Obama's Misleading and Disrespectful Stump Speech

The president campaings on half-truths and distortions

Ira Stoll | 7.16.2012 4:30 PM

Nanny State

Facial Recognition Technology Will Make You Hard To Miss

J.D. Tuccille | 7.16.2012 3:55 PM

Politics

Democrats and Republicans Agree: More Power for the President

Calvin Thompson | 7.16.2012 2:59 PM

Politics

Drone Records Gush from FAA Spigot, But Privacy Issues Not a Priority

Scott Shackford | 7.16.2012 2:43 PM

Politics

Seth Adams Investigation Findings Imminent; Sheriff Says They "Verify Exactly" What He's Thought Since the Beginning Anyway

Ed Krayewski | 7.16.2012 1:23 PM

Politics

The Bipartisan War on Individual Liberty

Politicians on the both left and right want to restrict your freedom.

A. Barton Hinkle | 7.16.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Florida Police Knock on Wrong Door at 1:30 a.m. Without Identifying Themselves, Then Fatally Shoot Armed Resident

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.16.2012 11:15 AM

Politics

Student Loan Scam

Why are today's poor subsidizing tomorrow's rich?

Veronique de Rugy | 7.16.2012 10:30 AM

Policy

Fight For Your Right to Go Paleo

The government has no business interfering with our food choices.

Baylen Linnekin | 7.14.2012 8:00 AM

Policy

Houston Police Kill Unarmed Man, Allegedly Took Witness' Cellphone When She Tried to Record

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.13.2012 8:00 PM

Policy

From Bootlegging to Pot Trafficking

The outlaws of Marion County, Kentucky, defy one Prohibition after another.

Mike Riggs | 7.13.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

FBI: Zimmerman Not Racist, Occupy Riot in L.A., Anybody Serious About the Deficit?: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 7.13.2012 4:30 PM

Policy

Libertarian Lawyers Prompt Missouri to Repeal Controversial Occupational Licensing Law

Damon Root | 7.13.2012 4:29 PM

Politics

In Some Countries Government, Not Banks, Get the Blame

Matthew Feeney | 7.13.2012 3:30 PM

Culture

Eating Bugs

The search for new food frontiers in an era of population growth

Greg Beato | 7.13.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Gay French Will Be Able to Get Married in the Crumbling Ruins of Their Home Country

Scott Shackford | 7.13.2012 1:13 PM

Policy

The Locavore's Dilemma: In Praise of the 10,000-Mile Diet

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 7.13.2012 12:47 PM

Politics

California's Food Truck Shakedown

How state officials mistreat mobile food vendors

Steven Greenhut | 7.13.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

Steven Greenhut on California's Food Truck Shakedown

Reason Staff | 7.13.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

Dem Governor on ObamaCare's Medicaid Expansion: "Unlike the federal government, Montana can't just print money."

Peter Suderman | 7.13.2012 11:44 AM

Policy

Why Not Let Cops Stop People for Unbuckled Seat Belts?

Jacob Sullum | 7.13.2012 3:50 AM

Politics

Should the Supreme Court Defer to Congress and Uphold the Defense of Marriage Act?

Damon Root | 7.12.2012 5:08 PM

Politics

When Romney Left Bain Questioned, Penn State Hid Sandusky, Hackers Hit Yahoo: P.M. Links

Scott Shackford | 7.12.2012 4:30 PM