Eminent Domain

Politics

ACORN's Original Sin

Critics of the expiring activist group say it was driven by the vision of Saul Alinsky. If only that were true.

Jesse Walker | 3.26.2010 3:00 PM

Politics

"A spokesman for Ratner didn't immediately return a call for comment."

Damon Root | 3.23.2010 3:23 PM

Politics

The Pro-Corporate Legacy of Justice John Paul Stevens

Damon Root | 3.18.2010 5:12 PM

Politics

Snapshots from the Atlantic Yards "Groundtaking" Ceremony

Damon Root | 3.11.2010 5:36 PM

Politics

Bruce Ratner: "Building the community from the ground-up" by Bulldozing Homes and Businesses

Damon Root | 3.11.2010 11:13 AM

Politics

Atlantic Yards Opponent Daniel Goldstein: "I actually don't feel like I live in New York City or a free country anymore."

Damon Root | 3.10.2010 3:57 PM

Civil Liberties

"It was as if all he knew was what he had read in his own paper."

Damon Root | 3.4.2010 7:29 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Billionares vs. Brooklyn's Best Bar! Eminent Domain Abuse & The Atlantic Yards Project

Reason Staff | 3.3.2010 4:08 PM

Politics

"When the most powerful forces in state government collude with the real estate industry, injustices will happen, and today is a result of that."

Damon Root | 3.2.2010 9:09 AM

Civil Liberties

"Eminent Domain as Central Planning"

Damon Root | 2.26.2010 4:57 PM

Civil Liberties

Brooklyn Drinkers Say No to Eminent Domain Abuse

Damon Root | 1.14.2010 3:07 PM

Civil Liberties

George Will on New York's Eminent Domain Abuse

Damon Root | 1.4.2010 4:40 PM

Politics

Another Loss in the Atlantic Yards Fight

Damon Root | 12.16.2009 5:41 PM

Politics

Daniel Goldstein on Blurry Blight Lines

Jacob Sullum | 12.10.2009 1:50 PM

Politics

Big Blighters

How developers use "blight" as a pretext to get the land they covet

Jacob Sullum | 12.9.2009 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

New York Court Puts A Stop to Columbia University's Eminent Domain Abuse

Damon Root | 12.4.2009 8:43 AM

Civil Liberties

"The majority is much too deferential to the self-serving determination by Empire State Development Corporation"

Damon Root | 11.24.2009 1:41 PM

Civil Liberties

"This is not about some great public use"

Damon Root | 11.23.2009 2:16 PM

Politics

New York's Shameful Eminent Domain Abuse

Damon Root | 11.16.2009 12:02 PM

Politics

New London's 'Carefully Considered' Plan: How's That Working Out?

Jacob Sullum | 11.9.2009 4:24 PM

Civil Liberties

Bruce Ratner Finally Admits It: "This isn't a public project"

Damon Root | 11.9.2009 1:28 PM

Civil Liberties

Yankees Lose Game 1, Bronx Business Owners Lose Every Game

Damon Root | 10.29.2009 1:55 PM

Civil Liberties

The Specter of Condemnation is Haunting New York

Damon Root | 10.28.2009 2:49 PM

Policy

Newspapers Already Receive Subsidies

Matt Welch | 10.22.2009 9:43 AM

Civil Liberties

Will New York's High Court Stand Up Against Eminent Domain Abuse?

Damon Root | 10.15.2009 10:12 AM

Civil Liberties

Private Developers Have No Right to My Home

It's time for New York's high court to protect homeowners.

Daniel Goldstein | 10.13.2009 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Wall Street Journal on Eminent Domain Abuse in Brooklyn

Damon Root | 10.13.2009 8:32 AM

Civil Liberties

Our Enemy, The State of New York

Damon Root | 10.9.2009 12:21 PM

Politics

When Public Power Is Used for Private Gain

It's time for New York's highest court to say no to eminent domain abuse

Damon Root | 10.8.2009 4:30 PM

Politics

"ACORN is a corrupt organization that had its silence bought by Ratner"

Damon Root | 9.22.2009 8:01 AM

Civil Liberties

"At long last, we can get our homes, lives and neighborhood back"

Damon Root | 9.15.2009 4:34 PM

Civil Liberties

Tough Months Ahead for Eminent Domain Abuser Bruce Ratner

Damon Root | 8.10.2009 5:47 PM

Policy

Loss of $1.7 Billion Leaves All Californians Richer

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.5.2009 3:30 PM

Civil Liberties

The Spectre of Eminent Domain is Haunting America

Damon Root | 7.23.2009 3:11 PM

Civil Liberties

Eminent Domain is for the Birds

Damon Root | 7.8.2009 3:44 PM

Politics

"As Naked an Abuse of Government Power as Could be Imagined"

How the Sotomayor nomination revived the debate over eminent domain abuse

Damon Root | 6.25.2009 4:35 PM

Politics

Sold Down the River

How Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour sabotaged eminent domain reform

Damon Root | 5.11.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Stress Tests, Reagan Revisionism, and the Men Who Murdered Mother's Day

Jesse Walker | 5.8.2009 7:30 AM

Civil Liberties

"Eminent Domain Through the Back Door"

Standing up for property rights and civil rights in Montgomery, Alabama

David T. Beito | 4.28.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

They Bet On One Horse To Win And I Bet On Another To Blow

Jeff Winkler | 4.17.2009 12:01 PM

Civil Liberties

SLAPP Silly

Developers vs. free speech

Jacob Sullum | 3.20.2009 12:01 PM

Civil Liberties

Alabama Takeaway (Eminent Domain Abuse in the Yellowhammer State)

Nick Gillespie | 3.19.2009 8:29 AM

Civil Liberties

"Nobody cared if Ratner was going to benefit to the tune of a trillion dollars or one billion"

Damon Root | 2.23.2009 5:48 PM

Policy

Not One More Acre!

Ranchers in Colorado's Piñon Canyon fight a massive Army land grab.

Trey Garrison | 2.17.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

There Goes the Neighborhood

Exposing Columbia University's eminent domain abuse

Damon Root | 2.9.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

The Bulldozer and the Bully

Jacob Sullum | 1.27.2009 3:36 PM

Economics

The Man Who Was too Big to Fail

Matt Welch | 1.22.2009 10:52 AM