Nanny State

Politics

Is Romney Vulnerable on Gay Marriage?

Jacob Sullum | 5.11.2012 12:40 PM

Politics

How the Kelly Thomas Killing Sparked a Citizen Revolt

The bipartisan movement to reform a broken California city

Steven Greenhut | 5.11.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

You Can't Buy a Coke With Your Debit Card Anymore: Yet More Unintended Consequences of Fee Regulation

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.11.2012 11:19 AM

Politics

Feds to California: Spend That Money You Don't Have on High-Speed Rail

Scott Shackford | 5.10.2012 8:19 PM

Politics

Thank the Influence of Money in Politics for President Obama's Gay Marriage "Evolution"

Ed Krayewski | 5.10.2012 7:11 PM

Policy

She Stole His Heroin, So She Was the Victim

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2012 6:47 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh on PJTV Talking Romney, Unemployment and Krugman: Updated with Kelly Thomas Palaver

Reason Staff | 5.10.2012 5:09 PM

Politics

Will Oregon's Next Attorney General Uphold Its Medical Marijuana Law?

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2012 3:19 PM

Politics

Gay 'Marriage' vs. 'Civil Unions': What's in a Name?

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2012 12:43 PM

Policy

Creating a Risk-Free World

Let's start treating people as though their bodies belong to them, not to a controlling and "protective" government.

John Stossel | 5.10.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Medical Marijuana Is Not An "Issue of Significance" to Mitt Romney

Peter Suderman | 5.10.2012 11:33 AM

Politics

The Strength of a Movement Is More Important Than the Warmth of a President's Heart

Jesse Walker | 5.10.2012 9:56 AM

Policy

As 25 More Denver Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Shut Their Doors To Keep the Feds Away, There's Talk of the Need to "clean up the industry" and Help "the kids" by Banning Sign Spinners, or Banning Medical Pot Advertising Entirely

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.9.2012 10:28 PM

Policy

New York's Highest Court Says Merely Looking at Kiddie Porn Is Not a State Crime

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2012 6:09 PM

Policy

Vampire Nutritionists!: Florida Warns Citizens About the Menace of Unlicensed Undead Diet Gurus

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.9.2012 4:58 PM

Politics

Milwaukee Police Chief Fires Four Officers This Month, Unrelated to Sweeping Investigation of Police Sexual Assault and Civil Rights Violations

Ed Krayewski | 5.9.2012 4:14 PM

Politics

The Technocratic Mind

A hagiography of the Obama administration's most powerful wonks reveals more than it intends.

Peter Suderman | 5.9.2012 4:00 PM

Science & Technology

Twitter Goes to Court To Defend User Privacy

J.D. Tuccille | 5.9.2012 3:51 PM

Politics

Brian Doherty: Why Young People Love Ron Paul

Sharif Matar | 5.9.2012 3:10 PM

Politics

Obama Endorses Gay Marriage

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2012 2:57 PM

Policy

Were McAfee Raid Tactics Born in the Third World or the U.S.?

J.D. Tuccille | 5.9.2012 1:37 PM

Politics

New Jersey Supreme Court Reviewing Kyleigh's Law Requiring Young Drivers to Display Red Decals

Ed Krayewski | 5.9.2012 12:38 PM

Policy

Licensing Requirements: The Level Grinding of the Small Business World

Peter Suderman | 5.9.2012 10:20 AM

Politics

City of Austin Ruins Man's Home, Gives Him the Bill for the "Service"; He Now Sues

Brian Doherty | 5.9.2012 9:54 AM

Politics

Sympathy for the President

Jesse Walker | 5.9.2012 9:48 AM

Politics

Obama's Gay Marriage Equivocation

The marriage whose name the president dare not speak

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Maricopa County SWAT Team Thrills Awful Fox News Reporter

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.8.2012 7:45 PM

Politics

7th Circuit Orders Injunction Against Illinois Ban on Recording Cops

Jacob Sullum | 5.8.2012 7:45 PM

Politics

Trainspotters: Deriving Numbers by Counting "Nonsensical," "Intellectually Dishonest"

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.8.2012 7:39 PM

Policy

What Makes a Horror Movie Intolerable in Canada?

Jacob Sullum | 5.8.2012 5:36 PM

Policy

Chronicle of Higher Education Fires Blogger For Challenging Seriousness of Black Studies Depts.

Nick Gillespie | 5.8.2012 2:42 PM

Policy

Baptists and Bootleggers, Tobacco Tax Edition

Peter Suderman | 5.8.2012 1:22 PM

Nanny State

Fat Americans Need To Be Poked and Prodded To Thinness

J.D. Tuccille | 5.8.2012 12:49 PM

Politics

North Carolina Votes Today on Gay Marriage Ban

Scott Shackford | 5.8.2012 12:22 PM

Politics

Your Daily Dystopia: Drone Edition

Jesse Walker | 5.8.2012 8:58 AM

Policy

Newly-Released Surveillance Video Shows Police Officers Brutally Beating, Suffocating, and Tasing Kelly Thomas to Death

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.8.2012 12:00 AM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh Talks Tasers, Deaths in Custody with RT

Reason Staff | 5.7.2012 5:30 PM

Politics

Are Liberals Still Mad at Donald Verrilli for the Health Care Arguments?

Damon Root | 5.7.2012 3:18 PM

Politics

New Surveillance Video Contradicts Cops' Story About Beaten Bronx Teen

Ed Krayewski | 5.7.2012 1:59 PM

Policy

Reason Writers Around Town: Peter Suderman on Paying for Medicaid With Cigarette Taxes in The Daily

Reason Staff | 5.7.2012 12:21 PM

Politics

Will Mitt Romney Negate the GOP's Advantage on ObamaCare?

Peter Suderman | 5.7.2012 10:43 AM

Politics

Connecticut Legislature Approves Medical Marijuana; Governor Expected to Sign

Scott Shackford | 5.6.2012 12:43 PM

Politics

The Myth of America's Laissez-Faire Past

Tariffs, trusts, corporate-state collusion and "communism of pelf" did not equal free markets

Sheldon Richman | 5.6.2012 8:00 AM

Politics

Sheldon Richman On the Gilded Age's Managed Economy

Reason Staff | 5.6.2012 8:00 AM

Politics

New Light Rail Ridership Falls Short by More Than Half

L.A. Expo Line running almost empty with "brief" 30-minute delays.

Tim Cavanaugh and Scott Shackford | 5.5.2012 4:00 PM

Politics

The Libertarian Party Convention Drinking Game

Garrett Quinn | 5.5.2012 1:54 PM

Policy

Reason's Bob Poole on How to Fix America's Airports

Sharif Matar | 5.5.2012 1:00 PM