Nanny State

Politics

Administration Decision Clears the Way For a Summer 2012 Supreme Court Ruling on ObamaCare's Individual Mandate

Peter Suderman | 9.27.2011 11:26 AM

Policy

FDA Warnings on Anti-Depressants for Teens Cause Serious Side Effects

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.27.2011 10:44 AM

Politics

Unions: The Cause of Michigan's Malaise

The Great Lakes state's burgeoning right-to-work movement is a backlash against aggressive union demands.

Shikha Dalmia | 9.27.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

California Democrats Also Run Out of Their Own Money

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.27.2011 1:12 AM

Policy

Idea of War on Salt is Clearly Republican Fearmongering

Lucy Steigerwald | 9.26.2011 4:55 PM

Politics

Solyndra and the GOP

Democrats aren't the only ones entangled in the green energy boondoggle

Ira Stoll | 9.26.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

The Escalating Penalty for Asserting Your Right to a Trial

Jacob Sullum | 9.26.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

How Dictators Stay in Power

Damon Root | 9.26.2011 11:02 AM

Politics

Gateway City Good Times: $31 Million Fast-Fingered; Business Lunch at Chuck E. Cheese's

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.23.2011 9:27 PM

Policy

NYC Police Commissioner Tells Cops to Stop Arresting Pot Smokers for Following Instructions

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2011 5:50 PM

Politics

Do Cops Need a Warrant to Track Down Your Cell Phone?

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2011 4:48 PM

Politics

Doctored Liquor Legalized in California, Snooty Boozers Rejoice

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.23.2011 3:41 PM

Policy

You Call That a Mandatory Minimum?

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2011 3:07 PM

Policy

Another Day, Another Independent Analysis Projecting That ObamaCare Will Make Health Insurance More Expensive

Peter Suderman | 9.23.2011 2:35 PM

Politics

Solyndra Stonewall Gets Autumn Off to Silent Start

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.23.2011 12:58 PM

Politics

If We Acknowledged the Secret Law, It Wouldn't Be a Secret

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2011 12:55 PM

Politics

Rick Perry's Salvia Moment

Matt Welch | 9.23.2011 10:59 AM

Policy

Injured In a Chicken Coop While Playing a Brass Instrument and You Have a Bizarre Personal Appearance? There are Federally Mandated Medical Billing Codes For That.

Peter Suderman | 9.23.2011 10:43 AM

Politics

The Gary Johnson Debate

Peter Suderman | 9.22.2011 11:45 PM

Politics

Welcome to the 22% Libertarian GOP Presidential Debate Open Thread!

Matt Welch | 9.22.2011 8:43 PM

Policy

Exciting Schools

Why our kids deserve a free market in education

John Stossel | 9.22.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

CLASS Dismissed?

Peter Suderman | 9.22.2011 2:34 PM

Politics

NYT Celebrates the Rise of the 26-Year-Old Dependent, Misses the Point

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.22.2011 2:12 PM

Policy

"Did you ever study writing in the English language?"

Matt Welch | 9.22.2011 12:21 PM

Politics

Rick Perry Has No Faith in Government but Total Faith in the Death Penalty

Why pro-death penalty rhetoric is not pro-individual rights.

Lucy Steigerwald | 9.22.2011 10:30 AM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on the UAW Ringing its Death Knell by Extracting $12,500 Bonuses From Government Motors

Reason Staff | 9.22.2011 10:10 AM

Politics

The Wrong Way to Help the Unemployed

The trouble with the American Jobs Act

Steve Chapman | 9.22.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

San Juan Capistrano Fines Family for Reading Bible without Permit

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.21.2011 10:31 PM

Policy

If Traffic Deaths Were Rising, Would the Los Angeles Times Be Less Alarmed?

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 5:31 PM

Politics

RAND Study: Closing Pot Dispensaries Leads to Increase in Crime

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.21.2011 4:39 PM

Politics

Zoning Bigots

A Los Angeles County land use war shows the dark history and darker future of urban planning.

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.21.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Do We Need a Department of Homeland Security?

Damon Root | 9.21.2011 4:25 PM

Politics

Cake For Taxpayers And Bonuses For UAW Workers in the GM Deal

Shikha Dalmia | 9.21.2011 4:06 PM

Policy

The Government Blames Full Tilt Poker for the Disruption the Government Deliberately Created

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 12:33 PM

Policy

The Butter Battle Comes to Wisconsin

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.21.2011 12:26 PM

Policy

Springfield Police Arrive Seven Months Late for a Suicide

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 11:38 AM

Policy

One Year After Beating University of Maryland Student John J. McKenna, Two Maryland Police Officers Indicted

Mike Riggs | 9.21.2011 11:25 AM

Nanny State

Is Full Tilt Poker Really a "Ponzi Scheme"? If So, Is it Still a Better Bet Than Social Security?

Nick Gillespie | 9.21.2011 10:29 AM

Policy

Are D.C. Cab Fares Too Low?

Jim Epstein | 9.21.2011 9:33 AM

Politics

Judge Rejects Eavesdropping Charges for Recording Police

Jacob Sullum | 9.20.2011 4:17 PM

Politics

George Kaiser 2009: "There's never been more money shoved out of the government's door."

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.20.2011 2:51 PM

Culture

Fult Tilt Poker or Full-Tilt Ponzi Scheme? Chris "Jesus" Ferguson Indicted Named in Legal Action.

Nick Gillespie | 9.20.2011 2:45 PM

War on Drugs

CBS Drops the Ball During Interview With Mexican President Felipe Calderon

Mike Riggs | 9.20.2011 12:12 PM