State Rep. Brandon Phinney talks about removing outdated laws, being an Army reservist against interventionism, and what the L.P. needs to do in an era of Trumpism and Democratic Socialism.
Apparently, nothing could get in the way of city employees' desire to party.
Don't blame smokers for cigarette butts on the street. Blame the policies that pushed them to smoke there.
Regulatory uncertainty is scaring some companies away from CBD products and forcing others to operate in a legal grey area.
The new legislation is more performative than punitive. That doesn't make it a good idea.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown exposes the flimsy case against the alt-weekly pioneers accused of facilitating sex trafficking through Backpage.com.
An inside look at how indie media veterans James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witchhunt.
No minor joy or modern convenience is safe.
Plus: digital privacy concerns down 11 percent since 2015
Love Ranch, a brothel owned by Nevada Assembly candidate Dennis Hof, loses their brothel license.
Taking a tax break now amounts to taking a side.
The new ordinance is being amended to include plastic stirrers
Profs. Kal Raustiala & Chris Sprigman will be guest-blogging about this week, based on their new law review article.
High tobacco taxes neither raise revenue nor discourage smoking.
The Reason Podcast crew takes on Trump's lawyers, trade wars, plastic straw bans, and the rise of socialism.
Democrat Leslie Cockburn says she's "exposed" her Republican opponent as a "devotee of Bigfoot erotica."
Straw banners will soon have to answer for all the people fined, arrested, or even jailed for violating their petty prohibitions.
Representatives of the oldest profession were on Capitol Hill fighting FOSTA and SESTA, with our online freedoms hanging in the balance.
...if regulators don't get in the way first.
When he grows up and gets that food truck, though, he'll probably have a very different experience.
A bill in San Francisco would prohibit new office spaces from having cafeterias on site.
Reading the fine print is important.
The granting or withholding of that approval is a powerful lever over our lives.
The California city has passed what is likely the most severe straw ban in the country.
Residents continue riding the scooters in a stirring display of civil disobedience.
When you give law enforcement a tool that can be used to target someone who has unpopular views, they will use it.
A Reason investigation reveals that the coffee giant's new cold drink lids use more plastic than the old straw/lid combo.
...and reminds everyone that sometimes a strip show is just a strip show.
A new bill would make it illegal for city businesses to refuse cash payments.
A new manifesto calls for sex-worker rights.
Since Ohio's age of consent is 16, it was legal for Edward Marrero to have sex but not to sext.
Al-Shabab has declared plastic bags a "a serious threat to the well-being of humans and animals alike."
The LP's move comes the same week the Green Party explicitly rejected a platform that protects sex worker rights.
In this sample of nearly 19,000, moving from smoking to vaping was much more common than the reverse.
The latest environmental craze claims another victory.
If you don't want a black market in booze to develop, keep the tax man on a leash and regulators in check.
The E.U. retaliated against Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs. Now, whiskey drinkers will pay the price.
Authoritarian cruelty in Hungary, civil disobedience in Ukraine, and booze reform in Canada
Another crop of celebrities, cities, and corporations declare war on single-use plastic straws.
ICE claimed tattoos are evidence of gang activity, grounds for deportation.
Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown on libertarian feminism, how to encrypt your email, and more
Bans like San Francisco's hurt smokers by making the potentially lifesaving switch to vaping less attractive.
Smithsonian Channel tells two-part story of the history of America's doomed booze crackdown.
Government-mandated price hikes do a lot of things. Spurring technological innovation is not one of them.
