Science & Technology

Politics

Another Reason to Give to Reason: We Let You Comment, You Mangy Sons of Bitches!

Nick Gillespie | 12.2.2014 12:46 PM

Policy

LA Schools Learn Wrong Lesson from iPad Debacle, Buy Chromebooks and Laptops

Robby Soave | 12.2.2014 12:22 PM

Politics

Reason's Webathon 2014: Help Us Raise $200,000 by Dec. 9!

Nick Gillespie | 12.2.2014 9:27 AM

Policy

Government-Backed Green Energy Goes Bust

What the Xunlight solar energy firm bankruptcy reveals about crony capitalism.

Ira Stoll | 12.1.2014 4:30 PM

Science & Technology

'When Reason Fails, Boobs Have a Chance'

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.1.2014 2:19 PM

Politics

Watch "101 Reasons: Liberty Lives in New Hampshire," Great Doc on Free State Project

Nick Gillespie | 12.1.2014 11:17 AM

Politics

"U.S. Drones Kill 28 'Unknowns' for Every Intended Target"

Nick Gillespie | 12.1.2014 9:02 AM

Politics

Ex Cop: Everyone Behaves Better When They're on Video

Joshua Swain | 11.30.2014 5:00 PM

Culture

A Drone in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Footage from the ruins.

Jesse Walker | 11.30.2014 4:02 PM

Politics

America's 3 Most Fee-Ridden Cities

Zach Weissmueller | 11.30.2014 1:00 PM

Economics

Silk Road, Online Freedom, and Why the Prosecution of Ross Ulbricht Should Worry Us All

The mother of the alleged "Dread Pirate Roberts" speaks out.

Nick Gillespie and Jim Epstein | 11.30.2014 9:00 AM

Policy

The Internet Does Not Increase Terrorism

Most terrorism takes place in Internet-free zones.

Ronald Bailey | 11.28.2014 1:30 PM

Artificial Intelligence

Will Superintelligent Machines Destroy Humanity?

The pitfalls of artificial intelligence

Ronald Bailey | 11.27.2014 1:30 PM

Foreign Policy

World's Gone Right

Don't believe the hype, things are good and getting better.

Ed Krayewski | 11.26.2014 4:31 PM

Politics

The FAA (Once Again) Makes Ferguson a No-Fly Zone

Anthony Fisher | 11.25.2014 1:11 AM

Politics

Forget Uber's "Asshole Problem." The Company is Now Bedding Down with Regulators to Screw Over Competitors

Nick Gillespie | 11.23.2014 4:17 PM

Policy

Citing Its Supreme Court Defeat, Aereo Files for Bankruptcy

Damon Root | 11.21.2014 1:53 PM

Politics

"Uber's Real Crime is Giving in to Politics as Usual"

Nick Gillespie | 11.20.2014 12:37 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Obama's Executive Action Play, Jared Polis on Pelosi & NSA, John Stossel on Jon Gruber, U.S. Continues to Plummet, Drinking Your own Pee, and Two Minutes Hate

Matt Welch | 11.19.2014 8:30 PM

Politics

Attn, Obama: Three Reasons to Build Keystone XL Pipeline

Nick Gillespie | 11.19.2014 11:23 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Goodbye, USA Freedom and Keystone Pipeline! Hello, Executive Action, Weird Chinese Censorship, and Ferguson Build-up! Also, Anthony Fisher on Jerusalem Terror, and After-show

Matt Welch | 11.18.2014 8:13 PM

Politics

Marijuana Entrepreneurs Should Follow Joseph P. Kennedy's Example

Anthony Fisher | 11.18.2014 4:45 PM

Economics

The Future of Money

Four surprising ways we might pay for stuff in the next 15 years.

Heather Schlegel | 11.18.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Gruber? I Just Met Her! Plus Bill Nye the Science Guy, Robert Bryce on Keystone, Kmele Foster on the USA Freedom Act, Michael Weiss on ISIS, After-show, and More!

Matt Welch | 11.17.2014 8:27 PM

Policy

DEA Searches NFL Teams for Illegally Prescribed Painkillers, Drugs

Nick Gillespie | 11.17.2014 11:00 AM

Politics

Former Cop Earns Federal Indictment for Teaching How to Pass a Polygraph!

Nick Gillespie | 11.17.2014 10:02 AM

Politics

Will Obama and the FCC Break the Internet with Net Neutrality and Title II?

Nick Gillespie | 11.16.2014 3:30 PM

Culture

Stillborn Utopia

Masdar City is an $18 billion attempt to build a zero-carbon community on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. It's empty.

Jesse Walker | 11.16.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

Philae Lander: One Small Step for Science, One Giant Sexist Shirt for Mankind?

Nick Gillespie | 11.15.2014 4:56 PM

Science & Technology

The U.S.-China Climate Change Deal Is Terrible. Fortunately, It Doesn't Matter

Guess what? America is not really doing anything we weren't going to do anyway, and neither is China.

David Harsanyi | 11.14.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Mark Cuban is Wrong: The "People" Don't Want Net Neutrality, Elites Do

Nick Gillespie | 11.14.2014 3:29 PM

Politics

Is the GOP Ready for For-Profit Insurance Hater and Six-Day Creationist Ben Carson?

Matt Welch | 11.14.2014 2:23 PM

Politics

Video Game Violence: A Scientific 'Consensus' Cracks

Reel violence does not lead to real violence.

Ronald Bailey | 11.14.2014 1:30 PM

Video Games

Ronald Bailey Parses New Research That Shows That Killing Pixels Doesn't Lead to Killing People

Reason Staff | 11.14.2014 1:30 PM

Surveillance

Feds Engage in Massive Spying on Americans' Cellphones from the Air

Ronald Bailey | 11.14.2014 11:01 AM

Politics

Mark Cuban on Net Neutrality: "The Government Will Fuck the Internet Up"

Nick Gillespie | 11.13.2014 11:35 AM

Policy

Obama's Scheme to Regulate U.S. Into 'Net Neutrality' Nirvana Could Kill Broadband

The best use of the FCC in the modern world-or, indeed, the world of decades past-is to hold a pillow over its face until it stops twitching.

J.D. Tuccille | 11.13.2014 8:01 AM

Politics

Obama Lost *Because* of His Early Legislative Wins, Not Despite Them

Nick Gillespie | 11.12.2014 6:08 PM

Politics

What is the Biggest Barrier to Innovation in US? Government, Government, and Government.

Nick Gillespie | 11.12.2014 3:46 PM

Politics

Bitcoin Gives Canadian Banks a Run for Their Money: Q&A with The Bitcoin Embassy

Joshua Swain | 11.12.2014 3:00 PM

Politics

Internet Sales Tax Won't Happen in Lame-Duck Session, But Should It Ever?

Nick Gillespie | 11.12.2014 2:22 PM

Policy

"Government Attempts at College Cost Transparency Ineffective, May Make Decision-Making Worse"

Nick Gillespie | 11.12.2014 1:52 PM

Policy

Net Neutrality—and Obama's Scheme for the Internet—Are Lousy Ideas

"Net neutrality" and public-utility style regulation are about Internet freedom, just not the way advocates think.

Grant Babcock | 11.12.2014 8:30 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Mohammed Cartoons Publisher Fleming Rose, Obama-Putin Fashion Show, How to Support Veterans, Bye-Bye Ebola, the War on Valerie Jarrett, the Death of Procreative Sex, and Aftershow

Matt Welch | 11.11.2014 8:24 PM