Nanny State

Politics

Another Federal Judge Strikes Down the Defense of Marriage Act

Damon Root | 5.25.2012 11:10 AM

Politics

The Lighter Side of Electronic Monitoring

History shows the benefits of positive reinforcement for Ankleted-Americans.

Greg Beato | 5.24.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

"It's nice to see a popular Democrat take a strong stance against the drug war."

Damon Root | 5.24.2012 4:29 PM

Policy

Flashing Headlights to Warn About Speed Traps Is Protected Speech, Sez Judge

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.24.2012 1:35 PM

Politics

How Long Can Obama Continue Supporting a Federalist Approach to Gay Marriage?

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2012 12:45 PM

Politics

George Soros and Other Lefty Moneybags Types Aren't Primarying Lousy Old Democrats Because the Party Is More Ideologically Diverse! Wait, What?

Matt Welch | 5.24.2012 12:16 PM

Politics

California Fixing to Have to Pimp-Slap Cities to Get Redevelopment Funds Back

Scott Shackford | 5.24.2012 12:08 PM

Policy

Will Americans Come to Love ObamaCare's Insurance Mandate?

Peter Suderman | 5.24.2012 11:34 AM

Politics

The Costs of Police Brutality: Fresh Out Of Bankruptcy, Vallejo Pays $4.5 Million for Warrantless Entry That Led to Spinal Cord Injury, Permanent Disability

Ed Krayewski | 5.24.2012 11:18 AM

Politics

Panic at the Jazz Club

Jesse Walker | 5.24.2012 8:52 AM

Politics

St. Louis Cops Worry That In-Car Cameras 'Are Being Used Against Them'

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2012 5:38 PM

Nanny State

A Skin Deep Big Brother Proposal

Matthew Feeney | 5.23.2012 3:30 PM

Politics

Years of Absurd Outcomes (and Maybe Real Competition?) Prompt Reconsideration of "Zero Tolerance" School Policies

Scott Shackford | 5.23.2012 1:32 PM

Politics

Plastic Bag Ban Will Put Los Angeles In Landfill

Proposal would provide no environmental benefits and deepen city's economic depression.

Jay Beeber | 5.23.2012 1:30 PM

Policy

Do Fire Retardants Work? And Since They Don't, Why is Their Use Mandated in Furniture?

Nick Gillespie | 5.23.2012 1:13 PM

War on Drugs

DEA-Backed Honduran Commandos Put Gun to Honduran Boy's Head, Tell Him, "If you don't talk we'll kill you."

Mike Riggs | 5.23.2012 12:55 PM

Policy

GOP Rep. Considers Bill to Allow Adult Children to Stay On Parents' Health Insurance Plans Until Age 31

Peter Suderman | 5.23.2012 11:15 AM

Policy

St. Louis Police Officers Association No Fan of Dash Cams

Ed Krayewski | 5.23.2012 10:55 AM

Culture

Pro-Legalization Congressional Candidate Primarying a Democrat in El Paso

Matt Welch | 5.23.2012 8:15 AM

Politics

Is That a Spy in Your Pocket?

How warrantless cellphone tracking threatens your privacy

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Mexican Congressional Candidate Wants to End Drug War. Also, She Poses Topless.

Scott Shackford | 5.22.2012 5:59 PM

Politics

"They think of someone they knew… who has been deported," Democrats May Lose Latino, Immigrant Voters

Ed Krayewski | 5.22.2012 5:31 PM

Policy

The Ethics of Egg Freezing

What's wrong with women resetting their biological clocks?

Ronald Bailey | 5.22.2012 4:45 PM

Politics

Does the Artist Treated Like a Terrorist Still ?NY?

Jacob Sullum | 5.22.2012 4:21 PM

Politics

ObamaCare's Defenders Keep Forgetting How Unpopular the Law Is

Damon Root | 5.22.2012 3:57 PM

Nanny State

DEA Wants to Track Your License Plate, and You May Already Be Tagged!

J.D. Tuccille | 5.22.2012 3:22 PM

Policy

Support for Pot Legalization Crosses 50 Percent, With 56 Percent of Americans Now In Favor of Treating it Like Booze

Mike Riggs | 5.22.2012 1:13 PM

Politics

Obama Administration Required to Spend $20 Million Advertising ObamaCare

Peter Suderman | 5.22.2012 12:31 PM

Politics

Cato Relaunches Police Misconduct Tracker, Assuring Regular Online Diet of Face-Stomping, Groin-Crushing 'Professionalism'

Scott Shackford | 5.22.2012 11:52 AM

Policy

Cop Doing "God's Work" Threatens to Face-Rape Petty Crook

Scott Shackford | 5.21.2012 5:36 PM

Politics

Asset Forfeiture: "A Process of Government Enrichment That Often Is Indistinguishable from Robbery"

Damon Root | 5.21.2012 4:51 PM

Politics

Palm Beach Deputy Sheriff "Forced" to Shoot Unarmed Man Checking In on Family Business

Ed Krayewski | 5.21.2012 4:29 PM

Politics

Penn Jillette, on Obama Locking Up People for Doing the Same Drugs He Did: "It's not a goddamn joke!"

Matt Welch | 5.21.2012 3:14 PM

Policy

DC Capitol Hemp Shutting Down: Obama's War on Drugs to Blame

Joshua Swain, Kennedy, and Nick Gillespie | 5.21.2012 3:00 PM

Policy

Dharun Ravi Gets 30-Day Jail Sentence, Plus Probation

Jacob Sullum | 5.21.2012 12:50 PM

Politics

One Virginia School District Still Demanding Search Warrants

Ed Krayewski | 5.21.2012 12:29 PM

Policy

DC Capitol Hemp Shutting Down: Obama's War on Drugs to Blame

Joshua Swain, Kennedy, and Nick Gillespie | 5.21.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

Alabama Cops Arrest 18 Strippers for Disrobing Without the Proper License

Mike Riggs | 5.21.2012 9:02 AM

Policy

A Report From Obama's "Humane" Drug War: "My son screamed for his mother for what seemed like an eternity"

Mike Riggs | 5.20.2012 9:30 PM

Policy

King-Sized No More

Michelle Obama shrinks your snickers

Greg Beato | 5.20.2012 1:00 PM

Policy

Opt Out of School Lunch

Should schools force kids to eat USDA-approved food, or should families take back control of what their kids are eating?

Baylen Linnekin | 5.19.2012 8:00 AM

Politics

Phonehenge Architect Sentenced to Pay For Demolition, "See Dead People"

Zach Weissmueller | 5.18.2012 4:50 PM

Politics

The TSA Can't Say Whether Full-Body Scanners Work, Because Its Failures Are Classified

Jacob Sullum | 5.18.2012 2:49 PM

Politics

Jacob Sullum Discusses the Right to Record Cops on RT

Reason Staff | 5.18.2012 11:58 AM

Politics

What is an Astronaut's Life Worth?: An Interview with Robert Zubrin

Anthony Fisher and Matt Welch | 5.18.2012 11:44 AM

Policy

We Had to Kill the Villagers to Save Americans From the Cocaine They Want

Jacob Sullum | 5.18.2012 11:33 AM