Nanny State

Policy

Easy Work Joins Delicious Food As a Public Health Menace

Jacob Sullum | 5.27.2011 5:55 PM

Politics

The Worst Part of Global Warming Will be the Lack of Icebergs For People Bob Dylan's Age or, Boomers Better Start Swimming or They'll Sink Like a Stone, For The Times They Are A-Changin'

Nick Gillespie | 5.27.2011 1:17 PM

Policy

ObamaCare's Disastrous New Long-Term Care Entitlement

The Obama administration makes a CLASS of itself.

Peter Suderman | 5.27.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Health Insurance Premiums Continue to Rise Under RomneyCare

Peter Suderman | 5.27.2011 10:43 AM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Block Big Brother's Internet Snoops

Reason Staff | 5.27.2011 9:07 AM

Politics

"To come on to our property and to defecate - it's just wrong" or, Finally, a Gov't Employee Who Really Gives a Shit.

Nick Gillespie | 5.27.2011 8:20 AM

Civil Liberties

Chinese Prisons Forcing Inmates to Mine Gold…Online?

Nick Gillespie | 5.27.2011 8:02 AM

Policy

USDA Sez You Can Stop Cooking Your Pork Chops to Death

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.26.2011 2:49 PM

Policy

The FBI Cracks Down on Little Old Ladies With Plastic Bags

Jacob Sullum | 5.26.2011 2:01 PM

Politics

Go Ahead and Mess With Texas; It's Run by Pussies

Jacob Sullum | 5.26.2011 12:24 PM

Policy

Selling Health Insurance Across State Lines: A Race to the Bottom?

Peter Suderman | 5.26.2011 11:47 AM

Politics

The State of Gay Rights

There's still a rocky road ahead.

Steve Chapman | 5.26.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Survey Says?¡?! Owning a house is "Dumb"

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.25.2011 7:42 PM

Policy

But Remember: Marijuana Is Not Medicine

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2011 5:29 PM

Politics

So, Tim Pawlenty Walks Into Cato, and…

Matt Welch | 5.25.2011 4:52 PM

Politics

Big Brother Is Watching You

Overreaching law enforcement puts privacy rights at risk.

A. Barton Hinkle | 5.25.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Republicans Didn't Make the Case for Medicare Reform

Peter Suderman | 5.25.2011 4:17 PM

Culture

Drug Czar's Office Backs Out of Another Congressional Softball Game with Drug Law Reformers

Mike Riggs | 5.25.2011 3:09 PM

Politics

Feds Threaten No-Fly Zone Over Texas

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2011 1:46 PM

Policy

Sebelius Touts Plan to Gut Health Care Cost Control Mechanism

Peter Suderman | 5.25.2011 12:16 PM

Politics

Would Meek Compliance Have Saved Jason Kemp's Life?

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2011 12:08 PM

Policy

USDA Fines Family $90,000 For Selling Pet Rabbits

Peter Suderman | 5.25.2011 10:34 AM

Policy

Because Gov't Doesn't Have Enough to Do, It Must Raid Raw Milk Farms!

Nick Gillespie | 5.25.2011 10:21 AM

Politics

Home Insecurity

Two privacy rulings hit us where we live.

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

Be Thankful You Can Still Buy That Jumbo Bottle of Tylenol

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2011 6:16 PM

Politics

Washington Medical Marijuana Bill Dead for Now

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2011 4:39 PM

Policy

Will Comparative Effectiveness Research Kill More People Than It Helps?

Consumers, not bureaucrats, should make healthcare decisions.

Ronald Bailey | 5.24.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Drug Offenders in California's Overcrowded Prisons

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2011 4:07 PM

Policy

Model Bill Would Revoke the State's License to Steal

Jacob Sullum | 5.24.2011 3:17 PM

Policy

The RyanCare Backlash

Peter Suderman | 5.24.2011 2:37 PM

Policy

ObamaCare Increases Cost-Sharing Too

Peter Suderman | 5.24.2011 12:08 PM

Politics

General Motors Will Never Repay Taxpayers

Obama's spin on GM's latest profit report is pure baloney

Shikha Dalmia | 5.24.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Dead Kids Make Bad Laws

New Jersey may soon repeal one of the most onerous driving restrictions in the country. That doesn't mean legislators have learned their lesson.

Michael Tracey | 5.24.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Supreme Court Upholds Order to Slash California's Prison Population

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2011 5:50 PM

Politics

Cops Chase Terrorists, Catch Poker Players

Jesse Walker | 5.23.2011 5:37 PM

Policy

Charging Ahead

To speed along the success of the electric car, improvements in battery chemistry will matter as much as the price of oil.

Ronald Bailey | 5.23.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

The Supreme Court's Advice About the Fourth Amendment: Use It or Lose It

Jacob Sullum | 5.23.2011 3:41 PM

Policy

Reason TV: The High Value of Low Speech - First Amendment Attorney Robert Corn-Revere Defends The Right to Offend

Zach Weissmueller | 5.23.2011 2:00 PM

Policy

Sen. Scott Brown Doesn't Think Paul Ryan's Budget Plan Is Hot Stuff

Peter Suderman | 5.23.2011 1:55 PM

Policy

The New York Times Defends RomneyCare

Peter Suderman | 5.23.2011 11:28 AM

Policy

Moralizing Against McDonald's

The clownish antics of nanny state busybodies

Steve Chapman | 5.23.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Jose Guerena Evidence: Don't Buy Your Kids the Jesús Malverde Bobblehead

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.22.2011 5:46 PM

Policy

So Long, Mitch Daniels, We Barely Knew Ya

Peter Suderman | 5.22.2011 9:39 AM

Policy

Froshes Can't Handle Queen's English: Blame Gatsby (or Wolfsheim)

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.21.2011 7:37 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Alan Bock, rest in peace

Reason Staff | 5.20.2011 7:00 PM

Politics

"What Planet Is Alito Living On?"

Damon Root | 5.20.2011 4:27 PM