The Obama Administration's Net Neutrality Proposal Could Change the Internet Forever—but the FCC is Keeping it Secret
The FCC wants to regulate the Internet as a utility, but won't release its full plan.
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Florida Bill Would Make Using Opposite-Sex Bathroom a Crime
Business owners who don't gender police their restrooms could be sued.
Friday A/V Club: World Leader Predicts TV Will Solve the Planet's Problems
A blast of techo-utopianism from 1929
Surgeon General Agrees With Bill Bennett That Marijuana Has Medical Potential
Vivek Murthy's comments do not necessarily signal a policy shift.
Canada's Top Court Rules in Favor of Assisted Suicide
For consenting adults suffering from severe and incurable medical conditions
Family Fakes Gunpoint Kidnapping of 6-Year-Old to Teach Him Not to Be Nice to Strangers
Boy's aunt told him he would be sold into sexual slavery
Bill Bennett's Confused and Confusing Defense of Pot Prohibition
The former drug czar claims marijuana is just as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco.
Warmest January In Northern Hemisphere; Global Temperature Trend January 2015
Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade
Forget the Anti-Vaxxers: Libertarian Parenting Is Perfectly Healthy
Mandatory vaccination is just one issue. Generally, the state shouldn't play parent.
Shake Out Those Creaky Knees and Prepare for the New Old Age
Reason's special issue on aging, pensions, and immortality
Prosecutor Wants to Apologize to Wrongly Accused Man, Cops Insist the System Worked
Cornealious Anderson was arrested and charged even though he had dozens of alibi. The prosecutor's investigation found problems in the police investigation.
Poll: 72 Percent of Americans Are Concerned About Public Pension Costs, 82 Percent Say Public Employees Should Contribute More to Their Own Retirement
Americans are concerned about breaking promises to public workers but overwhelmingly support reforming pension benefits over raising taxes or reducing services
The Vampire Cure for Aging
Watch out Millennials! Baby Boomers are out for blood.
Screwed by Seniors
The people expected to pay for Social Security and Medicare can't afford it.
Confessions of a Stockton Slumlord
The northern California city of nearly 300,000 has become a key test case on whether cities can reduce their unaffordable public pensions when they head into bankruptcy court
Jupiter Ascending
The Wachowskis flame out in a welter of digital overkill.
Kurt Loder Reviews Jupiter Ascending
The Wachowskis flame out in a welter of digital overkill.
Elder Care Doesn't Have to Resemble Prison
Regulations, fear of lawsuits prevent nursing homes from allowing patients basic autonomy
Medicare and Social Security Tabs Coming Due
Unless we want to drown future generations in a sea of red ink, we need to have a serious conversation about the future of entitlements.
Dying and in Denial
A new book offers a powerful dissection of contemporary end-of-life care, yet misses the underlying problem.
What If You Could Live for 10,000 years?
Q&A with transhumanist Zoltan Istvan
What Do Americans Think About the Pension Crisis?
Most realize the problems, but they don't want tax increases or spending cuts to fix them.
Cops Should Seek 'Justice,' Not 'Forfeiture'
Federal rule change won't stop locals from 'policing for profit'
When Liberals Ignore Science
How do we deal with the false perception that liberals are more inclined to trust science than conservatives?
IRS (Again) Puts Taxpayer Info At Risk
Its procedures to combat identity theft sometimes "increase the risk for an unauthorized disclosure of tax return information."
How Gasification Beat Berkeley and Broke Big
From fighting with Berkeley city government to a $5 million green-tech company
