Nanny State

Politics

IPAB: "The Roach After the Nuclear Blast."

ObamaCare's Medicare cost-control panel may be unworkable, unconstitutional, and a barrier to real reform. It's also very difficult to repeal.

Peter Suderman | 7.13.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Will ObamaCare Force Employers to Snoop Into Their Employees' Family Finances?

Peter Suderman | 7.13.2011 10:45 AM

Policy

Only Industry Shills Will Oppose This Regulation, Which Must Be A Good Idea Because Industry Supports It

Jesse Walker | 7.13.2011 9:02 AM

Politics

Big Egg Gets in Bed with the Humane Society, Invites Congress for a Threesome

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.12.2011 4:25 PM

Policy

Sheriff's Deputy Kills Former NFL Player Outside a Convenience Store

Jacob Sullum | 7.12.2011 2:58 PM

Politics

Announcing the Grumpy Gus 3.0 Awards!

Matt Welch | 7.12.2011 1:34 PM

Policy

We Can Sell Our Beer in Texas, but We Can't Tell You Where

Jacob Sullum | 7.12.2011 12:40 PM

Policy

Medicare's Fraud Prevention Systems "Inadequate and Underused"

Peter Suderman | 7.12.2011 11:12 AM

Civil Liberties

Washington Attempts to Make us All Culpable for Online Child Pornography

Matt Welch | 7.12.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

Will ObamaCare's Exchanges Encourage Health Insurers to Prioritize the Healthy and Slight the Sick?

Peter Suderman | 7.11.2011 4:49 PM

Policy

MRSA: Another Way Pot Prohibition Enhances Public Health

Jacob Sullum | 7.11.2011 4:31 PM

Policy

The War Public Health Struggle Against Drugs

Jacob Sullum | 7.11.2011 4:13 PM

Policy

Teachers with Seniority Keep Their Jobs, More Effective Teachers Get Booted. Again.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.11.2011 3:57 PM

Politics

Because Consumers Balk at Spending 10 Times As Much for a Light Bulb, They Must Be Forced

Jacob Sullum | 7.11.2011 1:59 PM

Policy

Sebelius to Announce Rules Governing ObamaCare's Health Insurance Exchanges

Peter Suderman | 7.11.2011 11:18 AM

Politics

Memo to Republicans: Offer to End Corporate Welfare As We Know it

Matt Welch | 7.11.2011 9:55 AM

Policy

Strike Three for Rescheduling Marijuana

Jacob Sullum | 7.10.2011 11:18 AM

Politics

Michele Bachmann Pledges to Increase the Size and Scope of Government

Mike Riggs | 7.8.2011 5:25 PM

Politics

Plant a Vegetable Garden in Your Front Yard, Face 93 Days in Jail

Matt Welch | 7.8.2011 2:39 PM

Policy

Does Medicaid Make People Healthier?

Peter Suderman | 7.8.2011 2:30 PM

Politics

A Majority of Voters Favor Increased Competition Rather than Increased Regulations to Hold Companies Accountable

Reason Staff | 7.8.2011 1:26 PM

Policy

James K. Pinkerton, on Declaration of Independents: "libertarian polemicists, whether they like it or not, will indeed be kept far from real-world politics and real-world victories"

Matt Welch | 7.7.2011 4:29 PM

Policy

How a Single Nick Gillespie Sentence Indicates "the central analytical failure of libertarianism as a worldview," or at Least Is a Good Enough Reason to Pre-emptively Discount a Piece of Journalism About Black People Getting Screwed Over in D.C.

Matt Welch | 7.7.2011 3:32 PM

Policy

Should States Refuse to Implement ObamaCare's Health Insurance Exchanges?

Peter Suderman | 7.7.2011 2:53 PM

Science & Technology

I Failed a Social-Media Background Check

Matt Welch | 7.7.2011 2:45 PM

Politics

The College Scam

Higher education isn't worth the cost.

John Stossel | 7.7.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

ObamaCare's Unreasonable Insurance Rate Review Regulations

Peter Suderman | 7.7.2011 10:26 AM

Policy

Reason.tv: D.C. Taxi Heist

How a new law would screw drivers and riders

Jim Epstein and Nick Gillespie | 7.7.2011 9:20 AM

War on Drugs

Utah Kids Call Cops After Finding Dad's Marijuana Stash

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.6.2011 4:35 PM

Politics

Smoked Out

Arizona's unfortunate reliance on tobacco industry revenues to fund health insurance.

Peter Suderman | 7.6.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

More Children Escape from Public Schools!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.6.2011 4:02 PM

Politics

Reasons to Support City Rail Plan: 1) Let's Get Moving 2) It's Time 3) This Is a Legitimate Plan

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.6.2011 3:21 PM

Politics

When Costs Considered, Support for Government Caps on 'Swipe Fees' Wane

Emily Ekins | 7.6.2011 1:15 PM

Policy

Rationing the Debate About Rationing

Peter Suderman | 7.6.2011 10:40 AM

Politics

Newt Gingrich candidate profile

Reason Staff | 7.6.2011 10:07 AM

Politics

Michele Bachmann candidate profile

Reason Staff | 7.6.2011 9:11 AM

Politics

The Week of Lying Dangerously

Obama displays a Clintonian desire to have things both ways.

Jacob Sullum | 7.6.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

No Spoonerisms for Jersey Sports Bars

Matt Welch | 7.5.2011 3:19 PM

Politics

Driving to Delusionville

Obama's former auto czar is in deep denial about the government's failed bailout

Shikha Dalmia | 7.5.2011 1:30 PM

Policy

See You at FreedomFest!

Nick Gillespie | 7.5.2011 11:02 AM

Politics

Give Peace a Chance

Why does the media keep downplaying the violence at left-wing protests?

A. Barton Hinkle | 7.5.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Reason.tv: The Killing of Allen Kephart - How the police lost the trust of a law-and-order town

Tim Cavanaugh and Paul Detrick | 7.5.2011 10:00 AM

Politics

Celebrate the Freedom to Have Your Life Destroyed by County Busybodies

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.4.2011 7:49 PM

Policy

Celebrate Bastille Day at Freedom Fest in Vegas, featuring Matt Welch, Nick Gillespie, & a Slew of Reason Fdtn. All Stars!

Nick Gillespie | 7.3.2011 11:25 AM

Policy

Indiana Bans Texting While Driving. But Web Surfing While Driving Is Still OK!

Peter Suderman | 7.1.2011 5:49 PM

Nanny State

Study: Menu Labeling Doesn't Impact Food Choices

Baylen Linnekin | 7.1.2011 4:56 PM