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The New Case for Hunting
Hunters, tree-huggers, and animal welfare advocates should be allies.
Obamacare Insurance Workaround Reveals Law that Remains Unfinished, Unaccountable, and Unworkable
The latest tweak reveals how much of the health law's basic architecture is still incomplete.
The Three Most Important Ongoing Second Amendment Cases
Addressing who can own guns, where they can carry them, and whether guns can be transported to a second home.
Sometimes the 'Makers' Act Like 'Takers'
Could American businesses learn from foreign ones a lesson in self-reliance?
Fixing California: How to Loosen the Union Chokehold
The state can make reforms that are both better for governance and fairer to union workers than the status quo.
Obamacare and Contraception Exceptions
How mandatory birth control coverage violates religious liberty.
Pope Francis' Apostolic Exhortation, Free Markets, and Social Justice
Give freedom a chance
Negotiating with Iran is Better than War
Diplomatic deterrence has a more impressive track record.
The Pope's Self-Defeating Anti-Capitalistic Rant
He shouldn't bite the hand that feeds the church
Fixing California: Freer Markets and Fewer Contraptions
The state currently operates like a Rube Goldberg Machine.
India's Feminist Vigilantes
The Pink Gang takes a DIY approach to fighting rapists and abusers.
Modern Political Debate Follows a 200-Year Tradition
The argument between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke never went away.
Obama Puts a Happy Face on a Federal Mess
Aside from that, Mr. President, how did you like the play?
Politicians Driven by Drink
Drinking is not a good excuse for smoking crack, snorting coke, or anything else.
Feminists Make Great Free Market Capitalists
And their influence in the market is going to keep growing.
Let My Genes Go! And Leave 23andMe Alone.
Regulators evidently fear an imminent outbreak of DIY mastectomies.
San Francisco 'Values' Pricing Poor Out of the City
Rent control is killing the city's stock of apartments.
What if Thanksgiving Exposes the Government?
What if at every Thanksgiving liberty is weakened and the government is strengthened?
We Should Be Thankful for Private Property
The pilgrims almost starved themselves to death with their experiment in communal ownership.
Shaming Non-Voters Has No Place In a Free Society
People have the right to troop to the polls, or not, as they please.
Court Hearing Raises Questions About Bust For Secret Car Compartment
How was a guy from Georgia supposed to know that empty space is illegal in Ohio?
Mass Murder Myths About Sandy Hook and Adam Lanza
A prosecutor's report debunks misconceptions about the Newtown massacre.
Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money
A guaranteed income would reduce the humiliations of the current welfare system while promoting individual responsibility.
Nobody Wins When You Go Nuclear on Filibusters
Serious political movements shouldn't try to knock down all the barriers to power whenever they temporarily enjoy it.
Doris Lessing's Impatience With Political Correctness
As we bid Lessing farewell, the blight she spoke of-"political correctness" and, in particular, its toxic feminist strain-is on the move again.
Early Obamacare Advocate Goes Missing as Program Flounders
Peter Orszag is strangely silent since the reforms he wanted have been made.
Warsaw Climate Change Conference Inconclusively Concludes
Reason's science correspondent sends a final dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference
Taxpayer-Subsidized Projects for the Elite
Richmond, Virginia, has already been burned on grandiose projects.
Democracy and the Filibuster
Next thing you know we could be deciding all sorts of things by majority vote.
Property and Force: A Reply to Matt Bruenig
How do we get from the right to one's body to the right to one's (justly acquired) possessions, including land?
GAO Wants Radiation Guidelines for Terrorism in U.S. Cities
Because of obsolete radiation guidelines, the greatest threat from terrorism is what Washington, in reaction to an attack, does to America.
Commenters Blast Proposed FDA Food Safety Rules
The comment period for two controversial proposed FDA food safety regulations, part of the Food Safety Modernization Act, closed yesterday. What did commenters have to say?
No, Arne Duncan, "White Suburban Moms" Aren't the Problem; You Are
Duncan's recent comments were part of a pattern that undermines innovation and allows the achievement gap to get worse.
Cigarette Sin-Tax Hike Could Boost Black Markets
"Do-gooder" types are just making the situation worse.
Worried About the Climate? End Subsidies
Reason's science correspondent sends a fourth dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference
The Obama Administration Plans To Keep Us in Afghanistan
Another campaign promise dies as the U.S. government hammers out a deal to keep troops in a war-torn country.
John F. Kennedy Set a Benchmark for Overambitious Government
JFK and LBJ set out to prove how much the U.S. government could accomplish. They ended up proving how little extravagance can buy.
We Don't Do Big Things
Why the failure of Obamacare should temper America's political ambitions.
