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Policy

If Accidents Are Up, the Cameras Must Be Working

Jacob Sullum | 1.2.2009 12:19 PM

Politics

The Good News From a Bad Year

Things are still getting better all the time

Radley Balko | 1.1.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Quotes

Reason Staff | 1.1.2009 12:46 PM

Nanny State

Digital Spelunking

Data mining failure

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 1.1.2009 10:00 AM

Policy

Better Than a Bailout

Four steps policy makers could take to help financial markets

Philippe Lacoude and Veronique de Rugy | 12.31.2008 3:00 PM

Politics

Breaking the Law to Spite a (Possible) Lawbreaker

Jacob Sullum | 12.31.2008 12:34 PM

Economics

Miracle TARP Can Cover Anything

Jacob Sullum | 12.31.2008 11:37 AM

Politics

The Buck Keeps Moving

The year's highlights in blame shifting

Jacob Sullum | 12.31.2008 7:00 AM

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A Law That's Nutty Like a Fruitcake

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.30.2008 3:24 PM

Policy

If Only the Singer of "Psychotic Reaction" Had Listened to Charles Murray 40 Years Ago

Nick Gillespie | 12.30.2008 12:23 PM

Policy

Blind Rage

Angry Korean masseuses

Mike Riggs | 12.30.2008 7:00 AM

Politics

Why Bother Becoming a Bank?

Jacob Sullum | 12.29.2008 11:47 AM

Policy

College Athletes and Preferential Admissions

Nick Gillespie | 12.29.2008 9:32 AM

Policy

"Edible Chips"

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.26.2008 2:53 PM

Politics

A Blue-Ribbon Panel, If We're Lucky

Jacob Sullum | 12.26.2008 1:08 PM

Policy

The Naked Yuletide Feast

Jesse Walker | 12.25.2008 8:00 AM

Culture

Halo Health

Fit, happy gamers

Ronald Bailey | 12.24.2008 12:00 PM

Politics

'Tis the Season for Clemency

Jacob Sullum | 12.23.2008 6:09 PM

Policy

Children Stare with Heroin Eyes

Jesse Walker | 12.23.2008 3:23 PM

Policy

Tom Daschle's Plan for Health Care Rationing

How the new health czar would save money by limiting care

Ronald Bailey | 12.23.2008 3:00 PM

Politics

Blagojevich as a Lesson in The Evils of Rent-Seeking

Brian Doherty | 12.23.2008 1:34 PM

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reason Gets Results: NYT Endorses Kangaroo Consumption

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.22.2008 5:07 PM

Policy

The SEC's Disastrous Distractions: Former commissioner Paul Atkins on how the regulatory agency's inattention contributed to the financial crisis

Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch | 12.22.2008 4:30 PM

Politics

Remember the Greediest!

Jacob Sullum | 12.22.2008 3:06 PM

Policy

Sarbanes-Oxley Revisited

Brian Doherty | 12.22.2008 12:00 PM

Politics

Robert Reich Stands Tall for the Separation of Powers

Jacob Sullum | 12.19.2008 4:52 PM

Policy

The New Killer Weed

Jacob Sullum | 12.19.2008 3:15 PM

Politics

Obama's Doctrine of Necessity

Jacob Sullum | 12.19.2008 2:16 PM

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Now Playing at Reason.tv: Do You Really Want to Live in a World Where Giant Inflatable Apes Are Banned?

Nick Gillespie | 12.19.2008 10:08 AM

Politics

Why are U.S.-Owned Auto Companies in the Crapper?

Nick Gillespie | 12.18.2008 4:36 PM

Politics

California Cops to DEA: Help Us Undermine State Law

Jacob Sullum | 12.18.2008 1:50 PM

Policy

Return of the Living Dead

What the U.S. can learn from Japan's failed experiment with "zombie businesses"

Anthony Randazzo | 12.17.2008 6:00 PM

Science & Technology

I Plead Guilty to Possibly Violating Your Ridiculous Gambling Laws

Jacob Sullum | 12.17.2008 3:35 PM

Politics

The Right Man to Replace Obama

Why the Democrats should nominate Republican Peter Fitzgerald to the U.S. Senate

Radley Balko | 12.17.2008 3:00 PM

Politics

How Is Barack Obama's Choice for Education Secretary, Arne Duncan?

Matt Welch | 12.17.2008 11:48 AM

Politics

Illegal Lending Practices

Bush's plan to help carmakers is not authorized by law.

Jacob Sullum | 12.17.2008 7:00 AM

Policy

The Good Marijuana News of 2008

Brian Doherty | 12.16.2008 2:23 PM

Policy

Rolling Stone: Have you heard about the midnight regulations?

Nick Gillespie | 12.16.2008 10:07 AM

Politics

The Litigatable Lightness of Cigarettes

Jacob Sullum | 12.15.2008 3:14 PM

Politics

Is Selling People Porn Worse Than Robbing Them?

Jacob Sullum | 12.15.2008 1:56 PM

Policy

Big Apple Tax Bite

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.15.2008 11:23 AM

Politics

Obama's 'My Pet Goat' Moment

Why did it take Barack Obama 48 hours to renounce Rod Blagojevich?

Steve Chapman | 12.15.2008 7:00 AM

Policy

The Real Surprise: Only 50 Percent Thought the Ads Exaggerated

Jacob Sullum | 12.12.2008 5:00 PM

Policy

New Incarceration Record

Jacob Sullum | 12.12.2008 2:59 PM

Politics

If G.M. Fails, the Terrorists Win

Jacob Sullum | 12.12.2008 11:47 AM

Culture

Roped and Trussed Just Like Dear Bettie Page

Jesse Walker | 12.12.2008 9:34 AM