Pepper Spray's Progressive Origins
The government's favorite air freshener is also a tool of individual empowerment.
Web Articles
How The Government's War on Street Vendors Keeps People Poor
Over-regulation eliminates paths to prosperity.
Federal Effort to Commandeer the Nation's Salt Shakers Is Based on Bad Science
Scientists are split over whether salt is a silent killer, or just a silent seasoning.
Read Our Complete December 2011 Issue!
The banal authoritarianism of do-something punditry, the affordable housing scam, Keynesianism is dead, and more
Mitt Romney's Immigration Dodge
The former Massachusetts governor's immigration stance precludes the possibility of reconciling policy with reality.
The Sky Is Falling Less?
A new climate study suggests global warming may not be as dire as predicted.
GOP Foreign Policy Debate Shows the Party Has Learned Nothing Over the Last Decade
We may be in for another decade of promiscuous bomb-slinging and armed "community organizing."
Thirteen Steps For Making U.S. Child Care As Horrible As U.S. Health Care
Nancy Pelosi once had trouble finding a babysitter, so her aspiration these days is "doing for child care what we did for health care reform."
The New York Times' Hypocrisy on Tax Loopholes
The paper goes after Ronald S. Lauder for the sins of the Sulzbergers
The Balanced-Budget Amendment Delusion
A balanced budget amendment won't halt the growth of big government
Eminent Domain Reform Is a Bipartisan Opportunity
Eminent domain laws are bad for property rights and social justice alike
Campus Speech Codes Are Bad For Higher Education
We should counter hateful speech with more words-not government force
William Niskanen on Cutting Taxes and Shrinking Big Government
Reason's 1978 interview with the late libertarian economist
What Part of Deficit Reduction Does Congress Not Understand?
If members of Congress can't find $1.2 trillion to cut in 10 years, the only reason is they aren't serious.
Passing the Purse
Congress can't delegate fiscal policy, but it can balance the budget without raising taxes.
Weathering Man-Made Climate Change
Poverty, not global warming, is the cause of death and destruction in the face of extreme weather.
Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Shows That Hunger for More Power Corrupts
J. Edgar Hoover's Fetish for Authority Was More Worrisome Than His Apocryphal Sexual Hangups
Virginia Dems Try to Thwart the Will of the People
Democrats might have good arguments for insisting that the Senate GOP share power, but "the will of the people" is not one of them
Keeping Newt Undercover
America doesn't need Dr. Strangelove dealing with Iran's mad mullahs
Good Riddance to the Super Secret Supercommittee
Why Washington should kick its spending habits in the clear light of day
California's Dead End Republicans
What the immigration debate reveals about the future of the California GOP
What's the Matter with Rachel Maddow?
The MSNBC host champions bureaucratic power at the expense of regular people and their rights.
The Bipartisan War on Liberty
Liberal and conservative elites agree on one thing: Americans are too free for their own good.
The Politics of Campus Sexual Assault
Why is the federal government pushing to reduce the due process rights of college students?
Wenzhou, a Town Built on Failure
Why a financial run won't "unravel" China's black market city
Occupy Wall Street Is Not an Altruistic Movement
Occupiers should stop pretending they know what's best for everybody else.
Constitutional or Not, ObamaCare Has Got To Go
What happens if the Supreme Court upholds the heath care law?
Buyers Beware
Upholding the health insurance mandate would encourage endless meddling in our spending decisions.
In Search of Free Will and Moral Responsibility
A review of Who's In Charge: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
