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The Case for Carpooling 2.0
How ride-sharing apps and other innovations are bringing carpooling into the 21st century
What Is Fair?
The idea that government can "make life fair" is intuitively appealing to people-at least until they think about it.
Why the Right Shifted on Immigration
Clearly the party has undergone a transformation since the days of Ronald Reagan.
Meet Some of Reason's Donors!
We like them a lot, so should you.
How Does the Brain Secrete Morality?
Pondering the neuroscience of moral platitudes, free will, and sacred values.
Obama Doesn't Care About Debt
Democrats are willing to move heaven and earth for the things they do care about.
Dharun Ravi's Hateless Hate Crime
A jury blames Dharun Ravi for his dead roommate's imagined feelings.
A Re-elected Obama Wouldn't Be the End of Liberty
Whatever happens in November, the work will have to go on.
Just What America Needs: More Red Tape
The IRS has taken upon itself a task no one asked it to do: regulate small, independent tax preparers.
Obama's Afghanistan Massacre Deniers
Why do liberals ignore millions of non-American war deaths?
Randi Weingarten of East Hampton
Not all of us city taxpayers are lucky enough to have homes in East Hampton to escape to in years when we would have big tax bills.
Manufacturing an Economic Myth
Rick Santorum and Barack Obama both have a soft spot for the manufacturing sector.
One Woman Is Fighting Back Against Bloomington's Taxi Cartels
Julie Crowe's dream of starting her own business was stifled when a group of potential competitors pressured City Hall not to give her a taxi license.
Five Ways Citizens United Is Making Politics Better
The controversial 2010 Supreme Court ruling is already bringing us more competitive campaigns, funnier ads and greater freedom of speech.
Meet Thomas Massie, Kentucky's Next Rand Paul
Much like Rand Paul, Massie's small-government instincts extend beyond keeping a tight grip on the checkbook.
How Budget Cutbacks Are Helping California Parks
The private sector stets up as the state government admits defeat.
What Ever Happened to "Extremism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice"?
It's more than a little ironic that conservatives think the first order of business when fighting terror is to sacrifice freedom.
The Perils of Staying in Afghanistan
The best-laid plans of military occupiers rarely work out.
The Coming Medical Ethics Crisis
How the government is putting the medical profession-and your health-at risk
Complex Societies Need Simple Laws
We need to end the orgy of rule-making at once and embrace the simple rules that true liberals like America's founders envisioned.
Collateral Damage from 'Reproductive Rights'
The practice of eliminating people because of their sex or significant defects isn't the worst of it.
Independents Will Decide the 2012 Election
Here are three ways Obama and Romney can woo them.
Kony 2012's Old-Fashioned War Propaganda
With lots of social-media hoodoo, popular new campaign calls for another U.S. intervention
Can the President Kill You?
And if he can kill an American in Yemen, can he do so in Peoria?
Why Super PACs Are Good for Democracy
Wealthy super PAC donors make politics more competitive.
Newt's Despicable Gasoline Price Promise
Newt Gingrich imagines he can command the law of supply and demand.
Is It the Illegality—or the Immigration?
You only have to scratch the debate to see the degree to which legal technicalities are orthogonal to the main issue.
Is Unauthorized War-making an Impeachable Offense?
Congress must decide if it or the president declares war.
The Case Against Rent Control
An Upper West Side landlord challenges a New York City institution
The Supreme Court Can't Fix University Admissions Policies
Universities have a history of ignoring the law to engineer the right ethnic mix on campus.
Port-au-Prince's Aid Economy
How foreign aid to Haiti can pressure the local economy, compound inflation problems, and maybe do more harm than good in the end
Why Bureaucrats Shouldn't Set Interest Rates
Those with the power to shift hundreds of billions of dollars out of the pockets of savers should have to stand for election.
How Housing Policy Caused the Financial Crisis
Q&A with the American Enterprise Institute's Peter Wallison
A Pox on Both Houses in the Contraception Controversy
Liberals and conservatives alike need to stop circling the wagons in defense of their own.
How Andrew Breitbart Changed the News
Love him or hate him, he demonstrated how to build your own media outlet.
