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Reason.tv: Author and Filmmaker J. Neil Schulman Discusses His Work

Nick Gillespie and Sharif Matar | 8.19.2011 1:20 PM

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A False Remedy for Sex Offenders

Draconian laws offer counterfeit comfort.

Steve Chapman | 8.19.2011 12:00 PM

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Rick Perry's Superficial Extremism

The Texas governor's record doesn't live up to his rhetoric.

Peter Suderman | 8.19.2011 10:30 AM

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Kids Put Adults on Trial in Vintage 1986 Ridley Scott Commercial on the Deficit

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.18.2011 1:59 PM

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Strict Scrutiny

ObamaCare and the long slow death of conservative judicial restraint

Damon Root | 8.18.2011 12:00 PM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on Rick Perry's Mixed Economic Record

Reason Staff | 8.18.2011 9:53 AM

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The GOP Race Heats Up

Surveying the 2012 Republican field

John Stossel | 8.18.2011 7:00 AM

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PolitiFact Gets High-Speed Rail Facts in Florida Wrong

Robert Poole | 8.17.2011 6:36 PM

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Immigrants Try to Solve the Immigration Problem as Michele Bachmann Bashes Them

Shikha Dalmia | 8.17.2011 6:01 PM

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Is Ron Paul Getting the Coverage He Deserves?

Nick Gillespie | 8.17.2011 4:33 PM

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How Long Will It Take Keynes to Die?

You won't find out by reading America's newspaper of record.

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.17.2011 4:30 PM

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Obama's Department of Failed Ideas

The White House struggles against economic reality.

David Harsanyi | 8.17.2011 12:00 PM

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Penn Jillette: "What makes me libertarian is what makes me an atheist -- I don't know."

Damon Root | 8.17.2011 10:50 AM

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Looking for Limits

The power to mandate health insurance is the power to mandate almost anything.

Jacob Sullum | 8.17.2011 7:00 AM

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Will Paul Ryan Run for President?

Damon Root | 8.16.2011 3:22 PM

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Nixon's Big Government Legacy

Remembering Richard Nixon's wage and price controls

Gene Healy | 8.16.2011 1:30 PM

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Hey Romney: If Corporations Are People, the War on Drugs Is a War on People, Too

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.16.2011 12:35 PM

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The Clock Is Ticking

We keep hearing that now is not the time for partisan politics. When would be a good time?

A. Barton Hinkle | 8.16.2011 12:00 PM

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After Striking the Mandate, Should the 11th Circuit Have Allowed the Rest of ObamaCare to Stand?

Peter Suderman | 8.16.2011 11:00 AM

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Starring Claude Rains as Ron Paul

Jesse Walker | 8.16.2011 10:33 AM

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Reason Morning Links: Pillbilly Crackdown, Defunding the IDF, Ron Paul's Media Blackout, Rick Perry's Crony Capitalism

Mike Riggs | 8.16.2011 8:42 AM

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The Bankrupt Agenda of the Save Our Schools Movement

True progressives would embrace school choice, not teachers' unions.

Shikha Dalmia | 8.16.2011 7:00 AM

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Don't Mess with the Texas Housing Market

Shikha Dalmia | 8.15.2011 9:26 PM

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Rick Perry's Balanced Budgets

Peter Suderman | 8.15.2011 5:18 PM

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The Religious Test

How will religion affect the 2012 presidential election?

Ira Stoll | 8.15.2011 4:30 PM

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ObamaCare, the Mandate, and the Limits of Congressional Power Under the Commerce Clause

Peter Suderman | 8.15.2011 12:40 PM

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The Riot Act

The media demonizes the Tea Party while making excuses for the British rioters.

A. Barton Hinkle | 8.15.2011 12:00 PM

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The Manhattan Madam On DSK

Nick Gillespie | 8.15.2011 10:55 AM

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What Would Libertarians Do?: A Conversation with Matt Welch & Nick Gillespie at SF's Commonwealth Club

Nick Gillespie | 8.15.2011 9:27 AM

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Obama: Worst. Approval. Rating. Ever.

Nick Gillespie | 8.15.2011 9:17 AM

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Run For Your Life! He's Creating Jobs!

Matt Welch | 8.15.2011 7:39 AM

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Why Obama Looks So Bad

It's the economy, stupid.

Steve Chapman | 8.15.2011 7:00 AM

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Why Ron Paul Is the Semi-Invisible Man

Matt Welch | 8.15.2011 6:56 AM

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There's Nothing Halfway About the Iowa Way to Treat You, When We Treat You, Which We May Not Do At All

Jesse Walker | 8.13.2011 8:48 PM

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All GOP Presidential Candidates are Four Square Behind Border Protectionism

Shikha Dalmia | 8.12.2011 8:02 PM

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Getting a Beer in Iowa Is Tougher Than You Think

The Ames straw poll is on Saturday. You probably need a drink.

Harry Graver | 8.12.2011 4:30 PM

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Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Strikes Down Individual Mandate

Damon Root | 8.12.2011 3:36 PM

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Appeals Court Strikes Down ObamaCare's Individual Mandate, Calls It "a wholly novel and potentially unbounded assertion of congressional authority."

Peter Suderman | 8.12.2011 1:35 PM

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Van Jones Forces Innocent Children to Advocate Infrastructure Spending, Oppose Corporate Personhood on YouTube

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.12.2011 12:02 PM

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What Would You Do to Improve Job Growth?

Reason asks economists, writers, and wonks for real ways to increase job growth

Robert Higgs, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, Amity Shlaes, John Stossel, Donald J. Boudreaux, Bryan Caplan, Bruce Bartlett, Jeffrey Miron, John Berlau, Allan Meltzer, Ira Stoll, Walter Olson, Peter Schiff, Alex Tabarrok, Fred Smith, and Lucy Steigerwald | 8.12.2011 12:00 PM

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Reason.tv: Fighting Youth Discrimination - Q&A w/ NYRA President Jeffrey Nadel

Joshua Swain | 8.12.2011 11:35 AM

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"That might be the single best description of the libertarian mindset that I have ever read," and Other Notices for The Declaration of Independents

Matt Welch | 8.12.2011 10:45 AM

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Minnesota Mean, Presidential Submission, Gotcha Questions, and More From the GOP Debate in Iowa

Peter Suderman | 8.12.2011 12:26 AM

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Watch Stossel Tonight at 10 pm ET for Post-Debate Analysis and Various Anti-GOP Insults From Matt Welch!

Matt Welch | 8.11.2011 6:05 PM

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Romney: "Corporations Are People"

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.11.2011 4:19 PM

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There's a Hashtag Goin' On

Jesse Walker | 8.11.2011 3:02 PM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on the Banality of Matt Damon's Cause

Reason Staff | 8.11.2011 2:12 PM