William Niskanen on Cutting Taxes and Shrinking Big Government
Reason's 1978 interview with the late libertarian economist
Politics
What Part of Deficit Reduction Does Congress Not Understand?
If members of Congress can't find $1.2 trillion to cut in 10 years, the only reason is they aren't serious.
Passing the Purse
Congress can't delegate fiscal policy, but it can balance the budget without raising taxes.
Weathering Man-Made Climate Change
Poverty, not global warming, is the cause of death and destruction in the face of extreme weather.
Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Shows That Hunger for More Power Corrupts
J. Edgar Hoover's Fetish for Authority Was More Worrisome Than His Apocryphal Sexual Hangups
Virginia Dems Try to Thwart the Will of the People
Democrats might have good arguments for insisting that the Senate GOP share power, but "the will of the people" is not one of them
The Simpletons
David Brooks, Thomas L. Friedman, and the banal authoritarianism of do-something punditry
Keeping Newt Undercover
America doesn't need Dr. Strangelove dealing with Iran's mad mullahs
Good Riddance to the Super Secret Supercommittee
Why Washington should kick its spending habits in the clear light of day
Two Decades of Peace, Love, and Marijuana
Every August since 1991, Seattle Hempfest has shown what the world will be like when pot is legal.
California's Dead End Republicans
What the immigration debate reveals about the future of the California GOP
