Nanny State

Politics

What the GOP is All About

Brian Doherty | 11.22.2011 6:03 PM

Policy

Roll Your Own, Avoid the Taxes

Jacob Sullum | 11.22.2011 5:18 PM

Politics

More of These, Please: Obama's First Commutation

Jacob Sullum | 11.22.2011 4:26 PM

Politics

Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Shows That Hunger for More Power Corrupts

J. Edgar Hoover's Fetish for Authority Was More Worrisome Than His Apocryphal Sexual Hangups

Gene Healy | 11.22.2011 1:30 PM

Politics

Judge Andrew Napolitano: Why Taxation is Theft, Abortion is Murder, & It's Dangerous to Be Right When the Gov't Is Wrong

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 11.22.2011 12:20 PM

Politics

Newt Gingrich on the Congressional Budget Office: "A reactionary, socialist institution."

Peter Suderman | 11.22.2011 11:30 AM

Policy

There Is No Such Thing As a Free Education

Seth McKelvey | 11.21.2011 5:03 PM

Politics

Gingrich's 'Right-Wing Social Engineering'

Jacob Sullum | 11.21.2011 4:54 PM

Policy

Government Worker Fired for Signing Pro-Pot Legalization Petition

Brian Doherty | 11.21.2011 3:56 PM

Politics

Why We Should Fear Bathtubs More Than Terrorists-Authors John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart on Security Spending

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 11.21.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

Health Care Sticker Shock In California: Claims Data For ObamaCare's High Risk Pool Program Comes in Three Times Higher Than Expected

Peter Suderman | 11.21.2011 2:32 PM

Politics

Why Must Prosecutors Be Told to Follow the Law?

Jacob Sullum | 11.21.2011 2:02 PM

Politics

Two Decades of Peace, Love, and Marijuana

Every August since 1991, Seattle Hempfest has shown what the world will be like when pot is legal.

Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch | 11.21.2011 12:00 PM

Nanny State

Water is Not Really Water, EU Planners Decide

Shikha Dalmia | 11.21.2011 11:50 AM

Politics

New Video of Police Brutality at Occupy Oakland

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.19.2011 6:53 PM

Politics

Three Reasons We Shouldn't Bail Out Student Loan Borrowers

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 11.19.2011 10:15 AM

Politics

Sit on a Sidewalk, Get Pepper Sprayed

Brian Doherty | 11.18.2011 11:50 PM

Politics

Toldja: Not a Good Idea to Pursue Solyndra Crime Angle

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.18.2011 9:19 PM

Politics

CBS Poll: Yes to Medical Marijuana, But What We Have Now Isn't So Medicinal

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.18.2011 6:35 PM

Politics

If Jack Abramoff Had Bought a Supermarket Chain, Would Frank Wolf Want to Ban Groceries?

Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2011 6:23 PM

Politics

Campaign Finance and the Problem of Big Government

A response to Jacob Sullum

Lawrence Lessig | 11.18.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Chu Review: "Unbowed," "troubling," "failed," "well played," "clueless" "unflappable"

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.18.2011 3:55 PM

Politics

3 Reasons We Shouldn't Bail Out Student Loan Borrowers

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 11.18.2011 2:00 PM

Policy

20 Years Later, Mandatory Minimum Sentences Are Still Mindlessly Draconian

Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2011 1:23 PM

Politics

Nothing Newt Under the Sun

The inevitable rise of Newt Gingrich.

Peter Suderman | 11.18.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

The Bipartisan War on Liberty

Liberal and conservative elites agree on one thing: Americans are too free for their own good.

A. Barton Hinkle | 11.18.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

Attorneys General Demand Smaller Four Loko Cans

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2011 5:56 PM

Politics

Don't Worry: Congress Can Make You Buy Broccoli, but You Don't Have to Eat It (Maybe)

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2011 3:12 PM

Politics

Meet, Heckle Tim Cavanaugh at UCLA Tonight

Reason Staff | 11.17.2011 2:28 PM

Politics

Occupy Wall Street Response Suddenly Causes Middle Class White People to See Law Enforcement In New Light

Mike Riggs | 11.17.2011 2:00 PM

Politics

Energy Sec. Chu Chums China: Solyndra Testimony Live

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.17.2011 1:00 PM

Politics

The Affordable Housing Project to Nowhere

Seth McKelvey | 11.17.2011 12:28 PM

Policy

Review Questions Warnings About Meth's Mental Effects

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2011 12:07 PM

Policy

The FDA Kills Smokers

Banning e-cigarettes won't save lives.

John Stossel | 11.17.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Treasury Admits What Everybody Already Knew: Taxpayer Losses On GM Bailout Are Going to be Massive

Shikha Dalmia | 11.17.2011 11:40 AM

Policy

Another Depressing Story of a Kid Narcing on His Parents

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.17.2011 10:20 AM

Politics

Why Bother Attaching Tracking Devices to Cars When People Voluntarily Carry Them Wherever They Go?

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 6:14 PM

Politics

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of UT Professors, Sans Cost or Benefit

Seth McKelvey | 11.16.2011 4:37 PM

Policy

Drop Those Drugs

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 4:37 PM

Politics

Obama War on Medical Pot Sweeps Washington Yesterday

Brian Doherty | 11.16.2011 12:45 PM

Politics

Does the Public Now Favor ObamaCare's Health Insurance Mandate?

Peter Suderman | 11.16.2011 12:35 PM

Politics

Everyone's a Federalist on Medical Pot, Until He's Elected

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 12:35 PM

Politics

Occupy Wall Street Removed from Zuccotti Park by NYPD (11/15/2011)

Reason Staff | 11.16.2011 12:03 PM

Politics

Constitutional or Not, ObamaCare Has Got To Go

What happens if the Supreme Court upholds the heath care law?

David Harsanyi | 11.16.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Do Catholics Have a First Amendment Right to Ban Gay Marriage?

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 11:46 AM

Policy

Why Employers Will Drop Health Coverage Under ObamaCare

Peter Suderman | 11.16.2011 11:16 AM