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How Liberals Became the New Book Banners

The First Amendment is under fire from the progressive left.

A. Barton Hinkle | 10.1.2014 10:30 AM

Politics

Eric Holder is a Back Door Man (Tech Edition)

Nick Gillespie | 10.1.2014 10:11 AM

Policy

How Bureaucrats Tried and Failed to Make TV Suck

The history of all things televisionish has been one of fraught relationships between rising innovators and grasping regulators.

J.D. Tuccille | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Policy

The New Face of Television

How murder, treachery, and mayhem made TV a 'vast wasteland' no more

Peter Suderman | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

The Rise and Fall of Aereo

The Supreme Court squashes one possible future of television.

Damon Root | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Policy

Text Ban Fail

Safety reg produces more accidents

Ronald Bailey | 10.1.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

The Brightest Spot in Holder's Record

How the attorney general tried to make criminal justice less senselessly punitive

Jacob Sullum | 10.1.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Will Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement Move China?

Anthony Fisher | 9.30.2014 10:00 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: DON'T PANIC, S.S. Follies, Libertarian Spoilers, Peter Suderman on Obamacare, Why Are We Still in Afghanistan, Intel vs. Obama, Plastic Bans, Are Hot Dogs Sandwiches, and Aftershow!

Matt Welch | 9.30.2014 8:08 PM

Policy

Vermont Cop Pulls Car Over for Nonexistent Traffic Violation, Tows It to Search for Evidence of Nonexistent Crime

Jacob Sullum | 9.30.2014 6:35 PM

Politics

Obama Administration Wants to Hide Gitmo Force-Feed Trial From Public

Zenon Evans | 9.30.2014 6:00 PM

Policy

Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Cali's Plastic Bag Ban

Reason Staff | 9.30.2014 2:52 PM

Policy

FCC Thumbs Nose at NFL, Votes Unanimously to End Protectionist Sports Blackout Rule

Peter Suderman | 9.30.2014 1:44 PM

Policy

Sports Blackout Rule Dropped by FCC

Regulators step back from the corporate enforcers role.

Reason Staff | 9.30.2014 12:53 PM

Policy

Tax Refugees Drive Decline in Northeastern Congressional Representation

Would the last to leave please shut off the lights?

Reason Staff | 9.30.2014 12:51 PM

Policy

Watch Bill Gates Confirm Everybody's Worst Fears About Common Core

Robby Soave | 9.30.2014 10:42 AM

Politics

Supply Side Health Care Reform

Peter Suderman | 9.30.2014 10:30 AM

Politics

Peter Suderman on Supply Side Health Care Reform

Reason Staff | 9.30.2014 10:30 AM

Politics

Elizabeth Warren ?s the Ex-Im Bank

Shikha Dalmia | 9.30.2014 10:30 AM

Policy

The Ever-Evolving Story of the White House Fence Jumper

More details emerge.

Jesse Walker | 9.30.2014 10:10 AM

Politics

Obama's Replacement for Attorney General Eric Holder Should be a Republican: Instapundit

Nick Gillespie | 9.30.2014 8:31 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The White House Home Invasion, Obama Throws CIA Under the Bus, OK Beheading, Yes Means Yes = WTF?, School Choice Savings, and Homeschooling Scapegoats

Matt Welch | 9.29.2014 8:29 PM

Politics

The Left's Populist Tax Agenda

Direct ballot initiatives are democracy at its best, but also at its worst.

Ira Stoll | 9.29.2014 4:30 PM

Policy

Yet More IRS Employees Busted for Stealing Taxpayers' Identities

J.D. Tuccille | 9.29.2014 4:17 PM

Politics

Is This "The Age of the Comedown"? Some Millennials Think So

Nick Gillespie | 9.29.2014 3:50 PM

Politics

Did Ruth Bader Ginsburg Just Disqualify Herself from Hearing the Texas Abortion Clinic Case?

Damon Root | 9.29.2014 3:20 PM

Policy

This Speed Camera Handed Out $77,550 Worth of Tickets in One Day

Zenon Evans | 9.29.2014 2:40 PM

Policy

Californians Seem Ready for More Sentencing Reform

Jacob Sullum | 9.29.2014 2:24 PM

Policy

Stupid Bureaucracy Prevents Licensing of New Doctors in Arizona

J.D. Tuccille | 9.29.2014 2:15 PM

Policy

War Letters Collector on the Individual Cost of Battle

Amanda Winkler | 9.29.2014 2:00 PM

Policy

The Left/Right Alliance That Legalized Homeschooling

And its descendant, the fight against Common Core

Jesse Walker | 9.29.2014 1:26 PM

Politics

ISIS Fighter: U.S. Airstrikes in Syria Aren't Stopping Us

Zenon Evans | 9.29.2014 1:05 PM

Politics

Why Mark Warner Should Quit the Democrats and Run As an Independent

Let's take partisan hackery out of the Virginia Senate race.

A. Barton Hinkle | 9.29.2014 12:00 PM

Politics

Is This The Worst Argument Against Libertarianism Ever? No, But It is the Most Recent.

Nick Gillespie | 9.29.2014 11:46 AM

Politics

Return of the Aqua Buddha! Rand Paul Survives Another Long Magazine Feature

Matt Welch | 9.29.2014 11:35 AM

Politics

Ukrainians in War-Torn East Topple Massive Lenin Statue

Zenon Evans | 9.29.2014 10:45 AM

Politics

"Either the president doesn't read the intelligence he's getting or he's bullshitting." Plus: Boehner Says Yes to Ground Troops.

Nick Gillespie | 9.29.2014 9:21 AM

Policy

New Survey Data Deflate Two Drug Scares

As heroin use and teenage pot smoking fall, alarm about them rises.

Jacob Sullum | 9.29.2014 8:30 AM

Policy

Gov. Brown Signs Bill Telling College Kids Where, When to Have Sex

Robby Soave | 9.29.2014 8:00 AM

Policy

The Latest War Will Not Be Free

You want a war? Pay for it.

Steve Chapman | 9.29.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Obama: U.S. Erred By Underestimating ISIS

Reason Staff | 9.28.2014 2:10 PM

Policy

The IRS Tries to Squirm Out of the Law

Forget tax rebels. Now it's the tax collectors getting creative with the rules.

Brian Doherty | 9.27.2014 12:00 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: 'Boots on the Ground'

Matt Welch | 9.26.2014 5:59 PM

Policy

1 in 6 California Construction Workers Labors 'Informally.' Can't Be the Lousy Business Environment, Can It?

J.D. Tuccille | 9.26.2014 5:25 PM

Politics

Free Speech at Risk in Australia, Thanks to Terrible New Counter-Terrorism Bill

Patrick Hannaford | 9.26.2014 4:19 PM

Policy

Inspector General to Federal Employees: No, You Shouldn't Bill Time Spent Watching Star Trek Movies to the Government

Peter Suderman | 9.26.2014 3:24 PM