Asking Tough Questions About the Death Penalty
Journalists and prisoners stage a First Amendment challenge to state secrecy regarding executions.
Science & Technology
Eat Food and Die
What happens when warnings about processed meat's cancer risk collides with California's absurd Prop 65 (over)warning law?
Carbon Bubble: Activists' Wishful Thinking?
Does the stock market know something that environmental activists don't?
Rand Paul Blasts Chris Christie's "Learning Problem"
The Kentucky senator says his GOP rival fails to understand, "You can use the Fourth Amendment and still get terrorists."
HUD Proposes Nationwide Smoking Ban in Public Housing
This is class-based paternalism in action.
Indian Nonprofit Brings Medical Training to Rural 'Quacks'
Naturally, the established doctors object.
The Environmental Case for School Choice
Allowing parents to stay in cities can help families and alleviate traffic congestion.
Paris Climate Change Conference
Paris Climate Conference Greenhouse Gas Cuts: Almost No Impact on Global Warming
Plenty of economic pain for a likely reduction in global temperature rise of about -0.17°C in 2100
Matt Ridley and Ronald Bailey Talk About The Evolution of Everything This Wednesday in D.C.
Incremental, bottom-up, trial-and-error innovation yields moral progress, superior technologies, and greater wealth
Where Hillary Clinton's Marijuana Proposal Falls Short
Moving pot to Schedule II is weak tea compared to Bernie Sanders' support for repealing federal prohibition.
Here is Why Edward Snowden Couldn't Have Gone Through 'Proper Channels'
Snowden's lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, explains why whistleblowers are the targets of government prosecution.
Will Climate Change Ruin Your Sex Life?
Global warming will cool sexual passion, says new study
How "Militarized" Is Your College?
From Harvard to Duke to Rutgers to University of Phoenix, here's a ranking of top universities favored by the military-industrial complex.
Despite All Issue 3's Flaws, It Felt GREAT Voting for Legal Pot in Ohio
It will feel even better the next time around with the full force of a 58 percent majority moving on from one of the great failures of the past 100 years.
Big Sugar Versus Big Corn: Bitter Fight Over Sweeteners in California Court
Real scandal is the amount of subsidies both Sugar Daddies are pulling down from Uncle Sugar.
Hottest October in Satellite Record: Global Temperature Trend Update
Man-made warming plus El Nino makes for a hot time
Eyes on the Skies! Google Wants Drone Deliveries by 2017.
Waiting for FAA regulatory framework is the pits.
Self-Driving Vehicles Experience Higher Accident Rate Than Conventional Cars, Says Preliminary Study
But all reported accidents are the fault of conventional cars.
Why I'm Voting For Pot Legalization (Issue 3) in Ohio
It's not a perfect law by any stretch, but it would mean the end of the war on pot
Michigan Creates 'Bogus Crimes' by Conflating Cannabis Extracts With Synthetic THC
Defense attorneys say hundreds of marijuana cases may be tainted by state crime labs' "systematic evidence tampering."
Should There Be *Any* Limits to Self-Fashioning?: Al Roker as Charlie Brown Edition
The Today Show tests the limits of tolerance and pluralism. And movie tie-ins.
San Francisco Wanted Info on Gun Owners. This Gun Shop Refused.
High Bridge Arms, founded in the mid-1950s by Olympic shooter Bob Chow, shuts down rather than give local police its customer list.
The New York Times Says Working in Nail Salons Causes Cancer and Miscarriages. The Evidence Says Otherwise. (Part 3)
The final in a three-part series on how Sarah Maslin Nir's investigative series violated the standards of responsible journalism.
GOP Debate: Somewhere in That Blob of Candidates Beats a Libertarian Heart
Nobody went full libertarian, but belief in limited government started to show around the edges.
U.S. Death Rate Decline Has Slowed
And still the ultimate death rate remains frustratingly stuck at 100 percent.
Batman Wants Bacon!
Let's put the whole "don't eat cured meats" hoo-ha in perspective, please.
Shadow-Censorship on Social Media Sparks New Concerns for Open-Internet Advocates
The digital censors of tomorrow will control information by secretly limiting or obscuring the ways that people can access it online.
"Reagan Allowed Himself to Imagine a World Without The Soviet Union"
Novelist Thomas Mallon on the Cold War, gay Republicans, Facebook vs. the novel, & why "95% of writers he knows are liberal Democrats."
Everybody Loves a Good Apocalypse
Even as the world gets better and better, people continue to stubbornly believe the end is nigh.
Nick Gillespie Talks Hillary, Trump, Libertarianism w Hot Air's Jazz Shaw & OTB's Doug Mataconis
...and much, much more on the Politinerds podcast.
Are You Better Off Now Than You Were 20, 30, 40 Years Ago?
Declinists who focus on inequality and stagnant wages miss increased freedom and opportunities.
Edward Snowden's Lawyer on the Government's War on Whistleblowers
Jesselyn Radack reveals what happens when whistleblowers go through those "proper channels" we're always hearing about.
Nick Gillespie Talks Smack About Joe Biden & Paul Ryan…
On HuffPost Live, no holds are barred and no quarter is given. And I really let it rip regarding how lucky we are Biden isn't running.
Should Women Be Allowed to Charge What the Market Will Bear for Their Eggs?
Yes. Next question.
FDA Takes One Regulatory Shackle Off 23andMe Gene Testing
Agency still treats consumers like idiots
Yelp Suing South Park: File Under "When a Story is Too Good To Be True…
...it usually isn't. An excellent hoax follows an excellent episode of an excellent series.
[Updated with Ryan's Statement!] Paul Ryan's Conditions to Serve as Speaker Should Disqualify Him
Irony alert: GOP running aground as it reaches its most zenith of historic power.
Brookings Report Decries the Federal Government's 'War on Medical Marijuana Research'
Practical suggestions for making it easier to investigate the therapeutic properties of cannabis
On Soundcloud: How Should Libertarians Think About Intellectual Property?
Listen now as thinkers from Cato, Mercatus, FreedomWorks, and R Street talk about copyright, patents, history, and cronyism.
Which Presidential Candidate Resembles Which Star Wars Character?
Besides, obviously, Donald Trump as Darth Vader. And Lincoln Chafee as C-3PO.
How Should Libertarians Think About Intellectual Property?
Brink Lindsey, Sasha Moss, Wayne Brough, Eli Dourado, and Nick Gillespie talk patents and copyrights in the digital age.
Is America the New Weimar Republic? Yeah, no.
Extremist politics, fashion choices galore: Life really is a cabaret, old chum. Or just more prosperous, fun, and free.
