Nanny State

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

Policy

Why You Shouldn't Trust Medicare Trust Fund Accounting

Peter Suderman | 4.11.2012 4:05 PM

Policy

New Telecomm Provider Would Put Privacy First

Ed Krayewski | 4.11.2012 2:50 PM

Politics

'Radical' Republicans

Unfortunately, there is no basis for Obama's claims about the GOP's extremism.

Jacob Sullum | 4.11.2012 7:00 AM

Policy

Spanish Village Votes "No" on Big Field of Revenue-Raising, Probably Illegal Marijuana

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.10.2012 10:00 PM

Policy

Here's How Unpopular ObamaCare Is: Fewer Than Half of Democrats Want the Law Upheld

Peter Suderman | 4.10.2012 5:18 PM

Politics

Government Bureaucrats Still Unable to Write or Speak in Plain Language

Ed Krayewski | 4.10.2012 3:45 PM

Policy

Autopsy Raises Doubts About Police Account of Kenneth Chamberlain's Death

Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2012 2:48 PM

Policy

Space-Aged Whiskey and Russian Rockets

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.10.2012 2:25 PM

Policy

The New York Times Gets Florida's Self-Defense Law Wrong. Again.

Jacob Sullum | 4.10.2012 1:47 PM

Politics

No, ObamaCare Won't Reduce the Deficit

A new paper by one of Medicare's Trustees reveals the disastrous budgetary consequences of the health law.

Peter Suderman | 4.10.2012 1:35 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on MSNBC: Matt Welch Talks POTUS vs. SCOTUS, the Social-Darwinism Slur, and the Constitution-Shredding War on Crime on the Melissa Harris-Perry Show

Matt Welch | 4.10.2012 9:31 AM