Nanny State
The Benefit of Bloomberg's Big Beverage Ban
The mayor's soda scheme won't make anyone thinner, but it sets a paternalistic precedent.
Rio +20 Earth Summit: Down with Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Up with Food Sovereignty
Reason's Science Correspondent sends his third dispatch from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.
From the Choom Gang to the White House
A new biography shows how Barack Obama the youthful pothead became Barack Obama the presidential drug warrior.
Rio +20 Earth Summit: 436 Visions of Sustainability, At Least
Reason's science correspondent reports from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
Washington, D.C. Considers Allowing Sunday Liquor Sales
Changes could make D.C. a seven-day-sprit city
Fair-Weather Federalists
Why conservatives and progressives should unite against an overweening national government.
What's Next If ObamaCare Is Struck Down?
The political upside of ditching the health insurance mandate
Obama's Gay Marriage Contradiction
The president's constitutional logic implies that state bans must be overturned.