Could Sovereign "Refugee Cities" Help Solve the Syrian Crisis?
With good governance and strong property rights, they could.
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4 Dumb Things GOP Candidates Have Said About Legal Marijuana
Republicans say they love states' rights, but they almost all hate recreational pot.
4 Dumb Things GOP Candidates Have Said About Legal Marijuana
Republicans say they love states' rights, but they almost all hate recreational pot.
House Pushes Forward to Reauthorize Export-Import Bank, Crown Jewel of Crony Capitalism
If this is how a Republican-led Congress acts, who do they think they're kidding when they talk about limited government?
Batman Wants Bacon!
Let's put the whole "don't eat cured meats" hoo-ha in perspective, please.
Democrats and Republicans Agree to a Budget Deal Compromise: More Spending on Everything!
New deal would suspend the debt limit, raise spending by $80 billion over two years.
Police Prosecutions Have Increased, but Convictions Have Not
Meanwhile, shootings by police show no sign of slowing.
Your Bacon Risk of Cancer, From Wired
Meanwhile PETA offers you a free vegan starter kit and a vegan mentor
Mets vs. Royals is the World Series of Misers and Moochers
Owners who won't invest in their teams but take hundreds of millions in public financing face-off in the Fall Classic.
Baltimore Police Start Wearing Body Cameras (UPDATE: City Releases Camera Policy)
"You can't claim to be transparent and then say those orders are a secret. It's beyond ridiculous."
Why Are Thousands of Chinese Nail Salon Owners Planning to Protest in Front of The New York Times This Morning?
Read Reason's investigative series to find out.
Most GOP Presidential Candidates Support Marijuana Federalism
At least eight of the remaining 15 candidates think the feds should not interfere with state legalization.
LEGO Won't Provide Bricks for Ai Weiwei's "Political Works," But His Fans Will
Everything is not awesome when it comes to subversive reappropriation of colored plastic bricks to protest authoritarianism.
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.
The New York Times' Nail Salons Series Was Filled with Misquotes and Factual Errors. Here's Why That Matters. (Part 1)
Reporter Sarah Maslin Nir's investigative series violated the standards of responsible journalism.
When Governments Offer Empty Health Care Promises, Black Markets Deliver the Goods
From the Third World to the First World, officials can't exempt medicine from the laws of economics.
Watch This School Cop Brutally Attack a Girl for Refusing to Leave Her Desk
Police vs. girl at Spring Valley High School.
Anti-Pot Group Names Rand Paul, Bernie Sanders Worst Candidates on Marijuana
Can you guess who Smart Alternatives to Marijuana (Project SAM) thinks are the best candidates? Probably, even if you're tripping balls right now.
School Investigates Teacher Over Kanye West Costume, and That's Absurd
It's okay. You can make fun of Kanye West. Can't you?
Will Ben Carson's Ideas About the Endtimes Scare Away Evangelical Voters? Don't Count On It
The religious right has long been willing to put politics ahead of doctrinal differences.
California's Bullet Train: Underbudgeted, Underscheduled, and Underfunded, but Other Than That, Everything's Just Fine!
The bullet train mess is unspooling pretty much exactly how critics predicted.
Benghazi Circus Was Born in Hillary's Watergate Past
The Benghazi hearings amount to a kind of poetic justice.
Feminist Groups Say Using Social-Media App Yik Yak Without Seeing Mean Words Is a Civil Right
Someone somewhere on the Internet is mean! Call in the federal government!
Hillary Clinton's Bizarre Gay Marriage Revisionism Doesn't Fool Those Who Remember
No, DOMA did not protect same-sex couples from a possible constitutional amendment.
Meat Eaters Beware: Carnivory Declared Cancerous
Bacon, ham, and sausage are especially hazardous (and tasty).
Donald Trump: "It has not been easy for me…"
...my father gave me a million-dollar loan." That he had to pay back! With interest!
"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."
"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."
New Poll: Most Students Favor Mandatory Trigger Warnings, Speech Codes
First Amendment is outdated, students say
Why Brute Force Will be Necessary to Avert "Climate Catastrophe"
Sweet talk at Paris can't eliminate the Sophie's Choice that the world faces
Consumers Need More Options, Not Fewer
Efforts in Virginia to outlaw payday lenders may salve consciences but they won't do anyone else any good.
Should Daily Fantasy Sports Be Regulated by the Government?
Regulators want their own piece of the action at FanDuel and DraftKings. But if they win, consumers will be the biggest losers.
Hillary Is Full of It But Republicans Are Worse: On This, Maureen Dowd & Ron Paul Agree.
The liberal New York Times columnist and the libertarian ex-congressman are right to focus on failed Libya policy writ large.
How is Donald Trump Going to Make America Great Again If His Supporters Are a Bunch of Losers?
Anti-immigration sentiment is part of what's making America not great, or at least a symptom of it.
