Science & Technology

Politics

Assange's Anniversary: Two Years Cornered, but Still World-Changing

From Iraq to SecureDrop, WikiLeaks remains an important tool for free speech, information, and action.

Zenon Evans | 6.18.2014 4:31 PM

Science & Technology

Robots Will Make Our Future Better. If They Don't Kill Us.

Machines can free us up to focus on activities that we enjoy more.

John Stossel | 6.18.2014 12:00 PM

Culture

The Internet Is Not a Safe Space

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.18.2014 11:02 AM

Policy

Amazon Is NOT the 'Putin' of Books!

The online powerhouse is being compared to thugs because it wants you to pay less for ebooks.

Nick Gillespie | 6.18.2014 10:30 AM

Science & Technology

The Secret History of the Videophone

The future's not what it used to be.

Jesse Walker | 6.18.2014 9:33 AM

Politics

Does TSA = Troyer Squeezing Administration?

Nick Gillespie | 6.18.2014 7:10 AM

Policy

Can Ignorance Protect Your Privacy?

A ruling against warrantless tracking assumes that people don't know how cellphones work.

Jacob Sullum | 6.18.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Exploring the Borderland of Libertarianism and Cool Tech with the Free State Project

Brian Doherty | 6.17.2014 4:40 PM

Culture

The New York Times, For One, Does Not Welcome Our New Robot Servants

Robby Soave | 6.17.2014 4:20 PM

Science & Technology

Science Speculates: Schizophrenia Still Very Confusing: Hm, Demons, Maybe? Can You Prove It Isn't True?

Brian Doherty | 6.17.2014 3:50 PM

Culture

WTF FBI? Agency Has Huge List of Twitter Slang (and Some of It's Fake)

Here's nine of the weirdest. ALOTBSOL, AMIRITE?

Zenon Evans | 6.17.2014 2:16 PM

Politics

Will Anybody Really Miss Eric Cantor?

His stunning loss was built on a terrible record of big-government conservatism at its worst.

Nick Gillespie | 6.17.2014 1:30 PM

Policy

Insider Trading Is Really Common. Awesome!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.17.2014 10:52 AM

Science & Technology

BTCDelta Is Leading the Charge to Bring Bitcoin to Mainstream Consumers

Paul Best | 6.16.2014 5:15 PM

Policy

Stuck in Traffic? Thanks, Obama!: Feds to Regulate Waze, Google Maps, and Other Navigation Apps

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.16.2014 4:55 PM

Policy

Does Using Drugs 'Even Just Once' Change Your Brain Forever?

Jacob Sullum | 6.16.2014 3:04 PM

Supreme Court

Supreme Court Rules on Political Speech, Straw Gun Purchases, and Prepares for New Cases

Close decision approves of regulations over third-party gun buys

Scott Shackford | 6.16.2014 2:40 PM

Politics

Politics are Polarized but America is Not: Pew Study Misses Bigger Point

Nick Gillespie | 6.13.2014 3:06 PM

Politics

Congress Threatens To Anchor Private Spaceflight With Extra Costs

A rent-seeking senator doesn't want competition to shake up NASA jobs.

Rand Simberg | 6.13.2014 3:00 PM

Politics

Are Conservatives Dumber Than Liberals?

It depends on how you define "conservative." The research shows classical liberals/libertarians are smartest of all.

Ronald Bailey | 6.13.2014 1:30 PM

Libertarianism

Ronald Bailey Asks: Are Conservatives Dumber than Liberals?

Reason Staff | 6.13.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

Ralph Nader: "We're not second-class citizens because we're a Green Party candidate or a Libertarian candidate."

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 6.12.2014 4:17 PM

Policy

Striking European Taxi Drivers Should Have Known: Letting Your Customers Even Know Uber Exists is Bad for You

Brian Doherty | 6.12.2014 2:46 PM

Policy

Federal Appeals Court: Cellphone Tracking Requires a Warrant

Jacob Sullum | 6.12.2014 2:01 PM

Economics

Obama: 'The World Is Less Violent Than It Has Ever Been.' He's Right!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.12.2014 11:39 AM

Politics

Hey Republicans: If You Reduce Cantor's Loss to Immigration Reform, You Will Keep Losing

Nick Gillespie | 6.12.2014 9:47 AM

Temperature Trends

Global Temperature Trend Update: Third Warmest May in Satellite Record Might Portend Record-Setting El Niño

Ronald Bailey | 6.12.2014 9:35 AM

Economics

Bitcoin: Now Usable for Hotel Bookings on Big Travel Site Expedia

Brian Doherty | 6.11.2014 8:04 PM

Politics

Eric Cantor Loss: One Down, 200 More Small-Government Fakers to Go

Nick Gillespie | 6.11.2014 2:46 PM

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Heads Up Climate Change Combatants: Global Warming Likely To Resume This Year

Ronald Bailey | 6.11.2014 12:46 PM

Culture

Reconciling Robert Heinlein's Ideological Range: A Coherent But Original Writer

Brian Doherty | 6.10.2014 7:07 PM

Policy

The DEA's 'Four Decades of Impeding and Rejecting Science'

Jacob Sullum | 6.10.2014 4:24 PM

Culture

CIA Joins Twitter, Starts Off With a Groaner

Ed Krayewski | 6.10.2014 11:50 AM

Politics

Rand Paul: People are Calling for a "Libertarian Moment"

Nick Gillespie | 6.10.2014 11:15 AM

Culture

Slender Man Now Linked to Ludicrous Media Hysteria

The creepypasta panic of 2014

Jesse Walker | 6.10.2014 10:08 AM

Google

Robot Cars Are a Moral Imperative

Ronald Bailey | 6.10.2014 9:47 AM

Politics

Local Governments Are Going After Ride Services Like Uber & Lyft to Help Politically Connected Businesses, Not Customers. Any Questions?

Nick Gillespie | 6.10.2014 9:12 AM

Science & Technology

Bitcoin Gaining Momentum With Small Entrepreneurs

Paul Best | 6.9.2014 5:30 PM

Policy

Local Police Chief Super Sad He Was Forced to Buy Badass Armored Vehicle

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.9.2014 4:55 PM

Culture

Linking Without Consent: The New (Imagined) Tragedy of the Twitter Commons

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.9.2014 4:48 PM

Media Criticism

Experts Fooled by Super Computer or Media Fooled by Bad Test?

Zenon Evans | 6.9.2014 4:32 PM

Immigration

Foreign Scientists, Technology professionals, Engineers, and Mathematicians (STEM workers) Boost Everybody's Wages

Ronald Bailey | 6.9.2014 12:33 PM

Culture

Welcome to the Naked Future

Celebrating the death of privacy

Ronald Bailey | 6.8.2014 10:00 AM

Civil Liberties

LAPD Acquires Two Drones

Paul Detrick | 6.8.2014 9:30 AM

Politics

Libertarianism 3.0; Koch And A Smile

The visionary brothers' paradigm could frustrate the left and alter the right by fusing social tolerance with fiscal responsibility.

Nick Gillespie | 6.6.2014 5:15 PM