Family Leave Policies Are Supposed to Help Women. Instead, They Trap Them.
Yes, there are unintended consequences to requiring employers to offer family leave benefits.
Policy
Anti-Immigration Conservatives Hit a New Low
What's wrong with letting undocumented immigrants serve in the U.S. military?
The Border Patrol's Unconstitutional Drug Dragnet
How immigration checkpoint stops lead to illegal detention and searches
Self-Driving Cars Are Coming Fast, So Why Should We Spend a Dime Rebuilding Amtrak?
Trains were cutting-edge technology. In 1825.
Benjamin Lawsky, Wall Street's Latest "Sheriff," Trades in His Badge To Take Money From the Companies He Used To Regulate
New York's top financial regulator prepares to turn his Rolodex into gold.
Is Alan Grayson Congress' Most Awful Representative?
No, but is it too much to ask for representatives - even those from Florida - to not be jackasses *all* the time?
Should Libertarians Embrace Reform Conservativism? Should Conservatives?
"Reformocons" reject technocratic, top-down government solutions to pressing policy issues. What could be wrong with that? Well, for starters...
Missouri's Governor Commutes a Marijuana Offender's Life Sentence
After 21 years in prison, Jeff Mizanskey is eligible for parole.
The Libertarian Moment is Everywhere Around Us (Increasing Social Tolerance Edition)
Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals want to keep the world tightly sorted into two categories that describe fewer and fewer Americans.
Liberal Writer Worries Large Minimum Wage Hike Could Hurt Poor People. You Don't Say.
Government intervention is never the panacea some on the left want to believe.
Hillary's Genius Amnesty Move
It'll prove the nemesis of Republicans if EmailGate doesn't derail her
No, the Cold War Didn't Teach us That Forcible Regime-Change Is Swell
David Brooks can't even learn from our Iraq mistakes right
"America's Most Awful Liberal is a #FloridaMan: Alan Grayson"
Members of Congress should be held to higher standards than regular voters.
A Young Woman's Shocking Encounter With Drug Warriors Disguised As Immigration Agents
How the Supreme Court allows drug dragnets while calling them unconstitutional
Block Biotech Progress or Embrace It? Bioethicists Debate What's to Come.
Is progress itself an ethical obligation? Opinions vary.
Dropped Charges Reflect Doubts About Legality of Freddie Gray's Knife
The fuzziness of Baltimore's switchblade ban helps the cops who say they were enforcing it.
For the Vatican, Climate Change Leads to … Abortion?
Archbishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo has got something he wants to say to you...
Obamacare's State Exchange Crack-Up
Hawaii's health insurance exchange teeters on the brink, and others struggle to find funding.
Thank Sid Blumenthal for Telling Hillary Clinton Benghazi Was a Planned Attack
What did she know and when did she know it? More important: WTF were we doing in Libya to begin with?
Glenn Beck Calls for the Repeal of Federal Drug Prohibition
"I'm moving deeper into the libertarian realm," says the talk show host.
Abolish Cash? Hell No, Says German Economist. Notes and Coins Are 'Printed Freedom.'
Evading state control is a feature, not a bug
Rand Paul Filibuster: 'Your Rights Are Many and Infinite… You Do Have a Right to Privacy'
The Kentucky senator tells conservatives to respect the Ninth Amendment.
The Tip of the Regulatory Iceberg
Pointless economic regulation cripples innovation and speeds the growth of big government.
10 Great Points in Rand Paul's Patriot Act Attack
It's not every day that a GOP presidential candidate talks about the drug war's 'disparate racial impact' while trying to run the clock out on blanket surveillance
GOP Should Side with Civil Libertarians Rand Paul and Mike Lee, Not Mitch McConnell and Tom Cotton, on Patriot Act Provisions
The Arkansas senator's commitment to a national security state and bellicose foreign policy seems like a fan fiction version of Dr. Strangelove.
More IRS Employees Abuse Access to Taxpayer Data to File Bogus Returns
Do you really think this is the worst of it?
Clinton Aide Sid Blumenthal is the Human Equivalent of a Semen-Stained Dress
He is a barely repressed reminder of a dark, gothic past that haunts Hillary Clinton and just won't stay buried.
Bitcoin's Regulatory Nightmare Is About to Get More Frightening
New York's BitLicense will further complicate an already byzantine regulatory regime.
Respected Virginia Prison Worker Fired for Accidently Hitting an Inmate
Yet plenty of cops who have gunned down innocent, unarmed citizens are still walking a beat.
Reason Roundtable: Is Reform Conservatism a Friend or Foe of Limited Government?
Advocates and critics debate the merits of a more populist approach to right-of-center politics.
Why Jeb Bush Can't Be Trusted With an Army
His reluctance to criticize his brother's war reflects a dangerous desire to forget the past.
Washington Driver Gets Six Months for 'Marijuana-Related' Crash That May Have Had Nothing to Do With Marijuana
The state's new standard for stoned driving can make innocent people guilty.
Parts of D.C.'s Concealed Carry Gun Permit Process Stopped by Federal Judge
Preliminary Injunction Gained by Second Amendment Foundation Against D.C. Requirement to Have "Good Reason" To Exercise Second Amendment Right.
Mitch Daniels Wasn't Kidding About Free Speech on Campus
As foreshadowed in his Reason TV interview, Purdue president gets free-speech 'green light' from FIRE
ACLU and Tea Party Patriots Try to Mobilize Majority Support for Surveillance Reform
A new survey shows four-fifths of Americans are troubled by the lack of protection for their personal records.
Mitch Daniels on How to Cut Government & Improve Services
The former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University gets real about making the public sector cheaper - and better.
Mitch Daniels on How to Cut Government & Improve Services
The former Indiana governor and current president of Purdue University gets real about making the public sector cheaper - and better.
