Policy

Policy

Border Patrol Threatens Mother, Slashes Her Tire, as Kids Watch

J.D. Tuccille | 4.29.2014 5:37 PM

Policy

More States Moving to Legalize Industrial Hemp Farming

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.29.2014 4:10 PM

Politics

58 Percent Oppose Minimum Wage Increase if it Costs Jobs, but 51 Percent Would Accept Higher Prices

Emily Ekins | 4.29.2014 1:57 PM

Politics

GOP Michigan State Rep Bolts Party Over Gay Rights; Joins Libertarians

Nick Gillespie | 4.29.2014 1:26 PM

Policy

This Is What a Government Going Broke Looks Like

J.D. Tuccille | 4.29.2014 1:23 PM

Politics

The Most Interesting Man in Buzzfeed's Paul Ryan Profile Is Not Paul Ryan

Poverty and the right

Jesse Walker | 4.29.2014 12:32 PM

Politics

Libertarians Should Take Over the GOP, Not Create 3rd Party

Nick Gillespie and Amanda Winkler | 4.29.2014 12:30 PM

Politics

Scalia Decries 'Unelected Agency Officials Exercising Broad Lawmaking Authority' in EPA Case

Damon Root | 4.29.2014 12:25 PM

Politics

Obama Is Right on Clemency for Non-Violent Drug Offenders

Conservatives have no good reason to caterwaul this time.

Gene Healy | 4.29.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Department of Education Says Tufts University Sexual Assault Policy Violates Title IX

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.29.2014 11:47 AM

Policy

Toyota Says Sayonara (Sort Of) to the Golden State

Scott Shackford | 4.29.2014 10:45 AM

Politics

58 Percent Oppose Minimum Wage Increase if it Costs Jobs, but 51 Percent Would Accept Higher Prices

Emily Ekins | 4.29.2014 9:10 AM

Policy

Today at SCOTUS: Do Cops Need a Warrant to Search Your Cellphone When You're Under Arrest?

Damon Root | 4.29.2014 8:10 AM

Politics

Hung Up on 'Stand Your Ground'

The absence of a duty to retreat does not explain the outcome of Michael Dunn's murder trial.

Jacob Sullum | 4.29.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Out of Season

Charles Oliver | 4.29.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

Brickbat: Out of Season

Charles Oliver | 4.29.2014 6:00 AM

Policy

California Tax Dollars, Hard at Not Working in Inglewood Schools

Ethan Roberts | 4.28.2014 5:22 PM

Politics

Sarah Palin: 'Waterboarding Is How We Baptize Terrorists'

Zenon Evans | 4.28.2014 5:00 PM

Politics

The Latest Left-Wing Bias by The New York Times

Charter schools require no apology.

Ira Stoll | 4.28.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Kareem, on Donald Sterling: 'Shouldn't we be equally angered by the fact that his private, intimate conversation was taped and then leaked to the media?'

Matt Welch | 4.28.2014 4:26 PM

Policy

Pot Prohibitionists Will Have to Do Better Than Bill Bennett's BS

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2014 4:16 PM

Policy

'A Freedom-Destroying Cocktail': Justice Breyer Keeps Siding with the Cops in Fourth Amendment Cases

Damon Root | 4.28.2014 3:50 PM

Policy

Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Sentenced to Death in Egypt

Matthew Feeney | 4.28.2014 3:28 PM

Policy

Obama Piles New Sanctions on Russia for 'Provocation' in Ukraine

Zenon Evans | 4.28.2014 1:48 PM

Policy

Is It Time to Welcome Our New Robot Overlords?

From online shopping to drone surveillance, it's a brave new world out there.

A. Barton Hinkle | 4.28.2014 12:00 PM

Politics

U.S. Announces More Sanctions Against Russians Amid Ukraine Crisis

Officials and companies targeted.

Matthew Feeney | 4.28.2014 11:27 AM

Politics

Do Flat State-Income Taxes Produce Inequality? Would Progressive Taxes Ameliorate It?

Nick Gillespie | 4.28.2014 11:20 AM

Policy

An End to New York's War on Condoms?

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.28.2014 10:53 AM

Politics

Supreme Court Remains Silent on Major Gun Rights Case

Damon Root | 4.28.2014 10:19 AM

Politics

Arrested Development

Economists who set out to help the world's poor may actually be part of the problem.

Brian Doherty | 4.28.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

John Oliver's New Show Slams Oregon for Its Failed Health Exchange

Peter Suderman | 4.28.2014 9:58 AM

Politics

Come to Reason's 'Thank You for Vaping' Event Tonight at New York's Museum of Sex!

Matt Welch | 4.28.2014 9:30 AM

Politics

Hillary Clinton, the Unrepentant Hawk

Hillary Clinton is a long-standing and unblushing advocate of frequent military intervention abroad.

Steve Chapman | 4.28.2014 7:00 AM

Policy

Why Rich Women Have Great, Low-Cost Childcare, And Poor Women Pay Out the Nose

You can thank regulations and licensing rules for pricing child care out of the reach of many lower-income families while leaving wealthier women with gray market or black market solutions.

Cathy Reisenwitz | 4.27.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Summer School Is For Suckers

Take online classes instead

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 4.26.2014 2:00 PM

Policy

Living with Inequality

Has Thomas Piketty really found "the central contradiction of capitalism"?

Garett Jones | 4.26.2014 11:00 AM

Policy

Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Suit Pitting Beverage Giants

How much pomegranate and blueberry must appear in "Pomegranate Blueberry" juice for the name not to be deceptive?

Baylen Linnekin | 4.26.2014 8:00 AM

Policy

CDC Director Says Switching From Smoking to Vaping Is a 'Misconception'

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2014 5:14 PM

Politics

Feds Grant Massachusetts Extra Year to Complete Obamacare Transition

Peter Suderman | 4.25.2014 4:12 PM

The Independents

Tonight on The Independents: Up in Your Business! And Immediately After, Watch Matt Welch Debate Pot Prohibitionists on Hannity

Matt Welch | 4.25.2014 2:54 PM

Politics

John Paul Stevens, Leading Enabler of the War on Drugs, Says Pot Prohibition Was a Big Mistake

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2014 1:34 PM

Politics

U.K. Euroskeptic Doesn't Think German Wife Is Taking British Job

Matthew Feeney | 4.25.2014 1:05 PM

Politics

California Officials Dread Rail Project Trial

The $68 billion high-speed boondoggle may not comply with its legal promise.

Steven Greenhut | 4.25.2014 12:00 PM

Policy

Friday Funnies: Equal Pay

Chip Bok | 4.25.2014 7:00 AM