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Why Super PACs Are Good for Democracy

Wealthy super PAC donors make politics more competitive.

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2012 7:00 AM

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Santo Hits a Double! Mitt's Third, Twice! Newt Keeps on Walking, Like Eddie Stanky! Who's in Fourth?

Matt Welch | 3.13.2012 11:10 PM

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Newt's Despicable Gasoline Price Promise

Newt Gingrich imagines he can command the law of supply and demand.

Ronald Bailey | 3.13.2012 6:00 PM

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Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem: Rush Limbaugh "is not constitutionally entitled to the people's airways"

Damon Root | 3.13.2012 5:20 PM

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Invisible Children, Invisible Finances? Kony 2012 Creators Stonewall Critics

Nick Sibilla | 3.13.2012 3:58 PM

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Graphic of the Day, Presidential Politics Edition

Matt Welch | 3.13.2012 3:30 PM

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"What if Bush Had Done That?" or, Hypocrisy Alert When it Comes to Barack Obama

Nick Gillespie | 3.13.2012 3:27 PM

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California Dispensary Fights City Extortion Scheme, Gets Raided By DEA Twice in Four Months

Zach Weissmueller | 3.13.2012 2:00 PM

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Is Unauthorized War-making an Impeachable Offense?

Congress must decide if it or the president declares war.

Gene Healy | 3.13.2012 1:30 PM

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Ron Paul Roundup: Somewhat Ironic Win in Virgin Islands, Delegate Strategy Paying Off? And Is Ron Paul the Next Black Swan?

Brian Doherty | 3.13.2012 1:15 PM

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How Stimulus Fails

A case study of federal waste in Silver Spring, Maryland

Jim Epstein | 3.13.2012 12:00 PM

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The Case Against Rent Control

An Upper West Side landlord challenges a New York City institution

Damon Root | 3.13.2012 10:30 AM

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Does Obama Have a Secret Plan to Deal with Runaway Debt? And Does it Involve Taxing Us Up The Ying-Yang?

Nick Gillespie | 3.13.2012 10:20 AM

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Tune Into The Peter Schiff Show and Hear Me Get Grilled on Ron Paul, Kochs vs. Cato, and the Symbolic Presidency!

Matt Welch | 3.13.2012 9:59 AM

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Reason Writers on The Alyona Show: Matt Welch Talks Voter Access, Plea Bargaining in America, and Public Attitudes About War

Reason Staff | 3.13.2012 7:42 AM

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The Supreme Court Can't Fix University Admissions Policies

Universities have a history of ignoring the law to engineer the right ethnic mix on campus.

Shikha Dalmia | 3.13.2012 7:00 AM

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Beantown Blasts Cavanaugh Over Romney, Obama and John Kerry's Ghost*

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.12.2012 10:48 PM

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Reason Writers on TV and Radio: Brian Doherty talks Ron Paul on Russia TV and with Daily Paul

Brian Doherty | 3.12.2012 9:55 PM

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Rick Santorum Said It, I Believe It, That Settles It: "Vote for Ron Paul, That's What You Should Do"

Brian Doherty | 3.12.2012 9:31 PM

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Global Warming's Short-People Virtuous Cycle

Shikha Dalmia | 3.12.2012 6:02 PM

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Will Chief Justice John Roberts Uphold ObamaCare?

Damon Root | 3.12.2012 4:53 PM

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More Unintended Consequences from Libya: Gaddafi Allies on the Warpath in Mali

Nick Sibilla | 3.12.2012 4:20 PM

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Koch/Cato Update: Charles G. Koch Speaks, Bob Levy Responds

Matt Welch | 3.12.2012 3:23 PM

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Ordeal by Trial: Sowing Chaos With the Sixth Amendment

Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2012 2:52 PM

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Christopher Hitchens, Romantic

The late author picked his battles well to the end

Michael Young | 3.12.2012 1:30 PM

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Charles Murray on Forcing Classes to Mix

Jacob Sullum | 3.12.2012 1:22 PM

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How Housing Policy Caused the Financial Crisis: Q&A with AEI's Peter Wallison

Jim Epstein and Anthony Randazzo | 3.12.2012 1:00 PM

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Facebook Co-Founder and Obama 2008 Social Media Guru Chris Hughes Buys The New Republic

Matt Welch | 3.12.2012 12:27 PM

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Americans Elect…to Pay Off Big Donors to Feckless Centrist Third Party

Brian Doherty | 3.12.2012 12:23 PM

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A Pox on Both Houses in the Contraception Controversy

Liberals and conservatives alike need to stop circling the wagons in defense of their own.

Cathy Young | 3.12.2012 12:00 PM

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The Great TARP Cover-Up

Some folks want to pretend government intervention never happened.

Nick Gillespie | 3.12.2012 8:30 AM

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Kiribati Buying Land from Dictatorship to Flee Rising Sea Levels

Nick Sibilla | 3.12.2012 8:25 AM

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Unions and Democrats: Labor's Love Lost

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.11.2012 10:22 PM

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Romney Beats Obama 48%-43% In New Rasmussen Poll

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.10.2012 1:33 PM

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Ron Paul Campaign: Reports of Its Death Exaggerated

Brian Doherty | 3.10.2012 12:59 PM

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Atheism Is a Religion

Or at least it requires a God for you not to believe in.

Kennedy | 3.10.2012 10:00 AM

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90-pound Ohio Woman Who Was Tasered by Police Files Federal Lawsuit

Lucy Steigerwald | 3.9.2012 8:30 PM

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California Convulses Over Dead Mountain Lion In Non-Bordering State

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.9.2012 7:59 PM

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SuperPAC Endorse Liberty Leader Speaks: "We Are Definitely Behind Ron Paul"

Brian Doherty | 3.9.2012 6:50 PM

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Adam Smith vs. Crony Capitalism

The Scottish philosopher's suspicions about business people were well-founded.

Sheldon Richman | 3.9.2012 6:00 PM

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Feds Pay $10 Million for $50 Light Bulb

The spectacular failure of a federal plan to create cheap, green lighting

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 3.9.2012 4:30 PM

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Study Finds That Voting For ObamaCare Hurt Democrats in 2010

Peter Suderman | 3.9.2012 4:20 PM

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Ron Paul Campaign's Jesse Benton "This time it's about real political victory"

Brian Doherty | 3.9.2012 3:31 PM

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Tim Cavanaugh Talks Obama Lock with Jerry Doyle: 4:30 p.m. Eastern (1:30 Pacific)

Reason Staff | 3.9.2012 2:30 PM

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What Should Libertarians Think About the Civil War?

Damon Root | 3.9.2012 1:26 PM

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Remy: Cough Drops-The Mandate (featuring Sandra Fluke)

Remy and Meredith Bragg | 3.9.2012 1:20 PM