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How to Balance the Budget in One Easy Step
It's like a real life easy button no one who can wants to use.
A Survey Not Designed to Measure Defensive Gun Use Finds Little of It
Do less than 1 percent of crime victims defend themselves with firearms?
No, 'the System' Is Not Broken
Not getting what you want from the government isn't a sign of failure.
Matt Welch Explains Why Hillary Clinton is a Brazen Liar
The email scandal only gets worse.
The Government's Secret War on Small Business
Operation Choke Point was meant to stop fraud. So why is the program going after legitimate business?
Lawrence Lessig Enters the Presidential Race
The Harvard law prof said he'd enter the race if he could raise $1 million by Labor Day. This morning he hit his goal.
Has Bitcoin Already Been Co-opted by Wall Street?
Nathaniel Popper answers in his new book, Digital Gold.
Great Novel About Amazons, Academics,…and Libertarians?: The Lost Sisterhood
Are you wo(man) enough to take the quiz "What does it mean to be an Amazon?"
What's the Deal with Nanny Statists?
Jerry Seinfeld's lemonade stand meets the long arm of the law in the final edition of Nanny of the Month.
Confidential Informants and a Lack of Accountability
If you work as an informant, law enforcement is unlikely to have your back.
A Libertarian Utopia on the Danube?
The president of Liberland, the world's newest sovereign state, speaks with Reason TV.
Straight Outta Compton Reminds Us Even Scary Speech Is Protected
California prosecutors use rap lyrics during criminal proceedings against aspiring rappers (and not much else).
'The FCC Won't Let Me Be,' Say Some Open Source Programmers
Proposed Rules from the FCC have sparked a lively debate within the tech community.
Is It Finally Time to Get Government Out of the Marriage Business?
Elected officials cannot be fired, which makes it that much harder to hold them accountable.
Self-Driving Cars Dodging Deer and Regulators So Far
Self-driving vehicles are legal in most states.
'National Johns Suppression Initiative' Nets Nearly 1,000 Arrests for Attempted Sex
Only a few million arrests to go and surely we'll stamp out this prostitution fad, by golly...
A Quiet Hero of the 9/11 Attacks Speaks Out
Documentary recounts tale of Marine who braved rubble to rescue cops.
"Hi, I'm President Obama and I'm here in Alaska to help fix the climate."
Will government solutions to global warming be worse than global warming?
Electronic Music Task Force Setting Up in Reactionary Los Angeles County
No one should die at a music event, government officials say while mulling options that would make that more likely.
DOJ Announces 'New Policy' of Acknowledging Fourth Amendment
Will require agents get warrants for devices that track mobile phone locations.
Hey Bioethicists, Stop Treating Us Like Dim-Witted Children!
Let us decide for ourselves if genetic ignorance is bliss.
Reason Weekly Contest: Put A Positive Spin on an ISIS Status Report
Last week's winners revealed.
The Alternative Medicine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks
The NIH has spent $5.5 billion on bringing quackery-from faith healing to homeopathy-right into the heart of the American medical establishment.
The Alternative Medicine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks
The NIH has spent $5.5 billion on bringing quackery-from faith healing to homeopathy-right into the heart of the American medical establishment.
Egyptian Billionaire Suggests Buying Island for Syrian Refugees—4 Million and Counting
No sign Syria's civil war is coming to an end.
Ted Cruz Offers the Most Absurd Response to Arrest of Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis
No, she's not some sort of pioneer of religious victimization.
A Guide to Supreme Court Vacancies for GOP Candidates
"Reject clichéd calls for 'judicial restraint'"
Survey Data Highlight the Tenuous Relationship Between Drug Panics and Reality
Fear of meth, bath salts, salvia, MDMA, and heroin correspond loosely, at best, to actual trends in drug use.
Mayonnaise Conspiracy? Emails Show Egg Board Tried to Thwart Vegan Mayo Before FDA Stepped In
American Egg Board paid for pro-egg press, advised Hellmann's Mayo to contact the FDA about its eggless competitor.
Rand Paul Is Wrong About Kim Davis
By refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, the Kentucky county clerk is not "exercising [her] religious liberty."
