The War on Sex Workers
An unholy alliance of feminists, cops, and conservatives hurts women in the name of defending their rights.
Features
'The World Is More Complicated'
David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, on New Orleans, private prisons, drug policy, newspapers, and letting down libertarians
Can the Libertarian Party Get 1 Percent of the Vote?
L.P. nominee Gary Johnson fights to reach single digits.
Obama: Transparently Disappointing
The president has fallen far short of promises to establish "an unprecedented level of openness in government."
Libertarian(ish) Candidates
If you want to find a few liberty-loving politicos, look lower on the ballot
'What Eisenhower Said About the Military-Industrial Complex Is True'
Sen. Tom Coburn on the fiscal time bomb, the military, and morals in America
The Streetcar Swindle
It's time to rethink America's retrograde love affair with trolley technology.
Ready to Cut Military Spending
Polls show that Americans want smaller government everywhere and fewer obligations abroad.
The Recovery That Wasn't
Three and a half years later, White House officials are still making wildly optimistic comments about the economy they mismanaged.
After the Storm
How Joplin, Missouri, rebuilt following a devastating tornado by circumventing bureaucracy.
Ron Paul's Clone Army
The Revolution spawns a new generation of GOP candidates in the mold of Dr. No.
Fair-Weather Federalists
Why conservatives and progressives should unite against an overweening national government.
What's Next If ObamaCare Is Struck Down?
The political upside of ditching the health insurance mandate
'The Financial Crisis Was the Result of Government Housing Policy'
The American Enterprise Institute's Peter Wallison on how government, not greed, was the essential ingredient in the 2008 meltdown.
"The New Debate in the Republican Party Needs to be Between Conservatives and Libertarians"
Sen. Jim DeMint talks about the looming fiscal crisis and the future of the GOP.
Fixing America's Freeways
The private sector is reinventing our expressways, one lane at a time.
Warren Buffett: Baptist and Bootlegger
How America's favorite billionaire plays politics to make money
Consultant in Chief
Instead of planning to cut government, Mitt Romney is repackaging the same old Republicanism.
How Much Is an Astronaut's Life Worth?
NASA's irrational approach to risk undermines its mission and costs thousands of lives.
A Twinkle of Hope
Obama has moved space policy in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go.
Toll-road FAQs
Responses to common arguments against toll lanes
The Moral Foundations of Occupy Wall Street
An illustrated guide to the signs at Zuccotti Park
'We Don't Face Any Good Options'
Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon Smith on the financial crisis, Adam Smith's underrated insights, and his journey from socialist to libertarian
Two Decades of Peace, Love, and Marijuana
Every August since 1991, Seattle Hempfest has shown what the world will be like when pot is legal.
China's Black Market City
Welcome to Wenzhou, where the mountains are high, the emperor is far away, and people are busy creating their own economic miracle.
