Atlas Shrugged Part II: Election Edition
Ayn Rand's timeless classic is filmed as a Tea Party fable.
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Shafted by the Electoral College
At this point, only nine states are deemed worthy of attention by Obama and Romney.
Let Gary Johnson Debate
If you want a real debate, you will be disappointed, unless Gary Johnson is let in.
Marijuana Legalization and the Nanny State: A Reason Debate
Drug Policy Alliance's Ethan Nadelmann and Drug Policy Institute's Kevin Sabet take on pot and public health.
Mitt Romney, Big-Government Man
If the Republican candidate won't even eliminate intrusive bureaucracy, there's little hope.
Romney's Middle Class Problem
The GOP presidential candidate's tax plan is vague, backward, and possibly impossible.
Genetic Testing Answers Old Question: Who Do You Think You Are?
Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey files his third and final dispatch from the Consumer Genetics Conference.
Marijuana and States' Rights: A Reason Debate
Drug Policy Alliance's Ethan Nadelmann and Drug Policy Institute's Kevin Sabet debate state cannabis initiatives.
Big Labor Is Going For Broke in Michigan
Protect Our Jobs ballot initiative will make unions more powerful than the legislature.
Hubris Is Not a Strategy
The most quotable line from Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech is a reheated zinger from Rudy Giuliani.
The Closing of the Centrist Mind
A self-proclaimed "sensible centrist" writes a sloppy attack on the academic left.
Mitt Romney Is Wrong: Garage-Based Businesses Are Great
The most infuriating moment of the presidential debate hasn't gotten the attention it deserves.
How Much Is This Tax Cut Gonna Cost Me, Doc?
Those who fret about the cost of a tax cut are looking at the question from the wrong end of the telescope.
Financial Regulation and the "Money Power"
In the end, financial regulation will best serve the insiders, the "money power."
What Has Hugo Chávez Done for Venezuela Lately?
The Venezuelan strongman has been annoying for our country, and a lot worse for his own.
Power in a Same-Sex Union
How the fight for gay marriage transformed the gay rights movement.
Does Fast Food Marketing Make Kids Fat?
A new study trumpets a dubious link between obese youngsters and the logos of food companies.
Classical Musicians Take to the Barricades (Again)
Longhair labor disputes are the inevitable product of an impossible business model.
The Latest Scam from California's Public-Sector Unions
Golden State lawmakers prepare to shovel more money to well-compensated government workers.
Who's Afraid of Your Genome?
Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey files his second dispatch from the Consumer Genetics Conference.
What Mitt Romney Really Believes
In the first presidential debate, the candidate reveals his core convictions.
Debate Exposes Obama's Ridiculous Tax Myth
Blaming tax cuts for a recession is a contention so ridiculous that even a fake economic study doesn't exist to prove it.
Virtual Children, Genome Sequencing for Everyone, and Forget Genetic Privacy
Ronald Bailey sends his first dispatch from the Fourth Annual Consumer Genetics Conference
Mitt's Mormonism Doesn't Matter
Americans have no trouble remembering that they are electing a president. Deciding who gets into Heaven? They'll leave that to someone else.
Romney Won the Debate, But Will the Country Lose?
Mitt Romney's and Barack Obama's visions for government are more alike than different.
The Failures of Obama and Romney
President Obama is a failure as a president, and Gov. Romney is a failure as a candidate.
Warrantless Spying Skyrockets Under Obama
And the news is being met with the equivalent of crickets chirping.
Slandering Muhammad Is Not a Crime
Obama undermines his defense of free speech by pandering to Muslim rioters.
The 6 Biggest Debate Promises Obama Failed to Keep
Warm up for tomorrow night's empty promises with some of 2008's forgotten pledges.
Half of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
A review of The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman.
Open up the Debates!
Johnson's on the ballot in some 47 states, and he's registered more than 5 percent support in some national polls. But he's locked out of the debates.
Jerry Brown's Vetoes and the Limits of Progressivism
Sometimes the most important thing a governor can do is to say "no."
How Local Governments Are Chipping Away at the First Amendment
That Amendment is unequivocal when it states that Congress shall make no law. Lesser government powers can make as many as they like.
Will Pot Become Legal?
Weed would remain illegal under federal law, but good luck to the feds trying to enforce that ban if a state abandons it.
The Foreign Policy Hubris of Romney and Obama
"Folly and presumption" seem apt words for anyone who proclaims that he can shape events-that is, people's lives-in the Middle East.
Obama's Dismal Record on Foreign Policy
The Nobel Peace Prize winner has not earned his award.
The Latest Misguided Attack on Sugary Drinks
Wheat, soy, dairy, and seafood make some people sick. Should we tax or ban those foods as a result?
Won't Back Down
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis team up in Hollywood's latest implausible school reform flick
California's Failed Policies Are Driving Away Businesses and Residents
The Golden State needs to mend its ways before it's too late.
