Politics
Convenience Store Owner Stands Firm Against Outrageous IRS Money Grab, and the IRS Blinks
The feds drop a forfeiture case that violated their own policies.
George Stephanopoulos: Clinton Foundation Donor
Former Clinton official failed to disclose $50,000 in donations to ABC.
Want to Sabotage Bad Laws? Healthy Contempt is More Important Than Legal Strategy.
The enemy of defiance isn't tough cops or clever politicians; it's respect for the law
How Lawyers Pre-Try Cases During Jury Selection
Reason was warning you about this 12 years ago
Universal Savings Accounts Help People Help Themselves
The case for individual economic choice.
Yesterday's Trade Deal Snafu Reveals a Democratic Party Struggling to Find Its Way Past the Obama Presidency
It's Elizabeth Warren vs. Barack Obama-and Elizabeth Warren is winning.
Hacking the Programs in Your Mind: Interview with Evolutionary Psychologists Leda Cosmides & John Tooby
By unlocking mechanisms that evolved in the brain, they've halted implicit racial bias and found the first female advantage in spatial cognition.
How Jury Duty Almost Turned Me into an Anarchist
Metal detectors, fire evacuations, Stalinist architecture, and ideological grilling, all in one day!
Fewer Christians in the United States: Fourth Great Awakening Over
Just as I predicted seven years ago
Hillary Clinton's Dubious Immigration Plan
The White House hopeful will say anything to get elected.
Feminists Should Not Dismiss Carly Fiorina
The pro-woman presidential candidate may well change the conversation about women's issues in this country.
Higher Cigarette Taxes = More People on Food Stamps?
A new study finds that poor smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by going on SNAP
Clinton Foundation Financial Disclosures Stubbornly Refuse to Disclose Clinton Foundation Financial Information
It's all a misunderstanding though.
Did Jeb Bush Misunderstand a Question About Whether He Would Have Authorized the Iraq War? Does It Matter?
The younger Bush is still aligned with the decisions made by his brother's administration.
Massachusetts' Botched Obamacare Exchange Build May Have Been Illegal As Well As Incompetent
Report finds that state misled federal officials about progress on the $135 million project.
Scott Walker's Olympic Quality Immigration Flip Flop
How the right-wing pundits paved the way for Walker's labor protectionism
Shikha Dalmia on Scott Walker's Reactionary Turn on Immigration
Even labor unions have abandoned the labor protectionism that he has embraced
Likely GOP Nominee Jeb Bush Praises Common Core, Defends Iraq War, Worships Cops
Not a libertarian, not a conservative, not exciting... why him?
You'll Never Guess Which 2016 Candidate Penn Jillette Likes Best After Watching Their Awful Campaign Videos
Libertarian magician looks at political propaganda so you don't have to
Barack Obama vs. Elizabeth Warren on Trade
An economic clash emerges between two liberal titans.
How Virginia's Attorney General Puts the State Before the Citizenry
Why is Mark Herring carrying water for a state agency when he should be securing the rights of the people?
Obama is Against Dumb Wars But is Always Willing to Start His Own
The United States won't help fix all the problems in the world until it realizes that it can't fix all the problems in the world.
How Britain's Election Divided the UK
The Scottish National Party's huge gains signal a major turning point in British politics.
VID: No Asylum: Immigrants Locked Up in U.S. after Fleeing Violence (UPDATED)
"When people knock on your door, and they are fleeing abuse, the United States is obligated morally and legally to let them in."
VID: Meet the Man Building Elon Musk's 760MPH Hyperloop
Can he really build a supersonic tube transport system, which could go from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes?
Libertarians Should Hope for Clinton Versus Bush in 2016
What could better illustrate the bankruptcy of the political system than that race?
Edward Snowden Statue's Co-Creator Talks With Reason About Political Art, 3D Printing, and Going Legitimate
Artists wanted to "draw a parallel between what Snowden was fighting for and the ideals that the American revolutionaries were fighting for."
Ban Private Schools in the Name of the Collective Good?
Bans on private education have already been tried and rejected in the U.S.
Yet Another Set of Pre-Election Polls Gets It Wildly Wrong. Here Are Some Reasons That Keeps Happening.
Polling is hard and getting harder.
14 Americans Per Day Are Now Renouncing Their Citizenship
Passport-burning sets yet another new record, thanks to terrible tax law that the GOP-led Congress should repeal
Good News! Ben Carson Is Campaigning Against the Debt. Bad News? Well….
Outsider could wage a Ross Perot-style crusade against the national debt, if only his tongue would get out of the way
Mike Huckabee Is the Wrong Candidate for the Wrong Time
He's what liberals in the media imagine a strong Republican candidate might look like.
