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Politics

Elizabeth Warren Shows Us Why ObamaCare's Cost Controls Won't Work

Peter Suderman | 4.18.2012 10:31 AM

Policy

Michigan Teacher Peeved She Can't Retire at 47

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.18.2012 10:15 AM

Policy

Your Government: Committed to Keeping the Drug Market As Dangerous As Possible

Jacob Sullum | 4.17.2012 5:50 PM

Politics

Obama's New Drug Control Report Calls for More Workplace Drug Testing, Nationwide Zero Tolerance Laws, Prescription-Only Ephedrine Products, and the Return of the "Above the Influence" Campaign

Mike Riggs | 4.17.2012 4:26 PM

Policy

The Unsavory Alliance of Big Government and Big Pig

Damon Root | 4.17.2012 4:20 PM

Politics

ADA Supporters Should Be Grateful to Ramp Chasers

Jacob Sullum | 4.17.2012 4:04 PM

Politics

RomneyCare: More Price Controls On the Way?

Peter Suderman | 4.17.2012 3:59 PM

Politics

Justice for Cisco: A Wrong Door Puppycide in Austin

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.17.2012 2:35 PM

Politics

Tasers for Transit Workers?

Ed Krayewski | 4.17.2012 10:35 AM

Politics

Can Wal-Mart Scale L.A.'s Great Wall of Regulation?

Opponents claim local Asian-Americans oppose the big-box store. Locals tell a different story.

Charles Johnson | 4.17.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Nothing Left to Cut! California Spends $205,000 to Move $15 Shrub.

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 10:20 PM

Politics

Pulitzer Prize May Be Most Coverage NYPD Spy Program Will Get All Year

Ed Krayewski | 4.16.2012 5:45 PM

Policy

How Can Overcharging Be Ethical?

Jacob Sullum | 4.16.2012 4:47 PM

Politics

Third Summer of Recovery Is Already Over

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 4:38 PM

Politics

Print|Email Puerto Rico's Infrastructure Reniassance - David Alvarez on Public-Private Investment

Joshua Swain | 4.16.2012 3:40 PM

Politics

Barney Frank: Even Hayek Agrees With Me! (That Only Increasing Federal Spending by 35 Percent Over A Decade Means the State Is "Just Doing Nothing")

Brian Doherty | 4.16.2012 3:33 PM

Politics

Puerto Rico's Infrastructure Reniassance - David Alvarez on Public-Private Investment

Joshua Swain | 4.16.2012 3:30 PM

Policy

Maybe Freaking Out Over Secret Service Agents and Sex Isn't the Way To Go

J.D. Tuccille | 4.16.2012 3:14 PM

Politics

Civil Libertarians Launch Campaign Against CISPA

Ed Krayewski | 4.16.2012 2:55 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh Talks Secret Service Hookers With Jerry Doyle: 3:30 p.m Eastern (12:30 Pacific)

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 2:49 PM

Policy

Why Medical Marijuana Providers Are Opposing Legalization Efforts in Washington and Colorado

Mike Riggs | 4.16.2012 11:47 AM

Politics

5 New Ways the IRS Is Screwing America

Dumb disclosure laws, xenophobic banking regs, and worse

Matt Welch | 4.16.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

After the Twisters

Jesse Walker | 4.16.2012 9:20 AM

Politics

New Video Reveals Bankruptcy of California High-Speed Rail

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

5 Freaky Fetishes of Golden-Age Hollywood - And The Enduring Question They Still Raise

Nick Gillespie | 4.15.2012 1:00 PM

Politics

Secret Service Agents Should be Allowed to Rent Hookers

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.15.2012 10:52 AM

Politics

Food Trucks vs. The Establishment: Attorney Jeffrey Dermer on the Legalities of Mobile Vending

Zach Weissmueller | 4.14.2012 1:00 PM

Politics

California's Bogus War on Food Trucks

The latest baseless attack on mobile food vendors crashes and burns.

Baylen Linnekin | 4.14.2012 8:00 AM

Policy

Baylen Linnekin on California's Bogus War on Food Trucks

Reason Staff | 4.14.2012 8:00 AM

Policy

Reminder to the Rest of the Summit of the Americas Attendees: Canada Has No Interest in Legalizing Drugs

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.13.2012 8:04 PM

Policy

FDA Holds Hearing to Consider Over-the-Counter Naloxone Sales

Brian Doherty | 4.13.2012 4:33 PM

Politics

Cops May Throw Wet Blanket on Nude Maid Service

Ed Krayewski | 4.13.2012 3:58 PM

Policy

Why It Matters That ObamaCare's Coverage Expansions Will Cost $2 Trillion Over a Decade

Peter Suderman | 4.13.2012 2:34 PM

Politics

The Business of Medical Marijuana

Two new books about "ganjaprenurialism" capture the confused and confusing state of U.S pot laws.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.13.2012 1:30 PM

Policy

New York State to Create Health Insurance Exchange

Peter Suderman | 4.13.2012 12:56 PM

Politics

Pennsylvania Town Seeks to Squash Scourge of Garage Sales

Ed Krayewski | 4.12.2012 3:40 PM

Politics

More From George Will on the Costs of Drug Prohibition

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 3:35 PM

Policy

How Long Will Nicholas Kristof Continue to Profit From Sex Trafficking?

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 1:31 PM

Politics

Will the Supreme Court Review New York's Rent Stabilization Law?

Damon Root | 4.12.2012 1:02 PM

Politics

Happy Birthday, RomneyCare! You're Growing So Expensive So Fast!

Peter Suderman | 4.12.2012 12:54 PM

Politics

Newt Gingrich Tells Us About the Justice System and Experts

Ed Krayewski | 4.11.2012 7:42 PM

Politics

You Are Now (Almost) Free to Discuss Ending the War on Drugs

Latin American leaders talk drug legalization. Will Obama join in?

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.11.2012 6:00 PM

Politics

Florida Drug Warriors Say They Had to Erase Possibly Incriminating Surveillance Video—for Their Own Protection

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 4:17 PM

Politics

Judicial Activism and the American Right

Damon Root | 4.11.2012 4:05 PM