Be Paranoid
We're only beginning to learn what the executive branch can do to us.
How reason and freedom have changed since our humble founding in a turbulent year
As his potency dwindles, the president should ease up on pot prohibition
Lessons from the late prime minister's decisive victory in the war of economic ideas.
Rand Paul's historic filibuster may have changed American politics.
The late economist James Buchanan predicted our current budgetary impasse. Is there a way out?
The Obama administration's shoddy response to the consulate attack in Libya
No matter who wins in November, America will remain overstretched overseas.
New laws push expatriate Americans to keep their money in their mattresses.
The disintegration of the euro, like America's entitlement bomb, is both unfathomable and inevitable.
The faster the state expands, the more likely it is to violate your values.
Obama says he can get you a job. So why can't he produce a federal budget?
The voters who keep fleeing the two major parties are giving libertarianism a try.
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators advocate policies that helped create the mess they're protesting.
Independence, not loyalty, is the way to push Democratic politicians on drug policy, civil liberties, and war.
An overlooked lesson of 9/11: America's strength is based on dynamism.
reason founder Lanny Friedlander, 1947-2011
The 2010 elections showed that unpredictable grassroots politics are here to stay.
The growth of government threatens freedom much more than mosque-building Muslims do.
The never-ending struggle to go about your business without fear of government sanction
American governance won't begin to inch forward until the political class faces basic facts.
How the party of pot smokers ended up standing in the way of pharmacological freedom
Why won't people who love to make zero-sum arguments about the economy apply their own lessons to government spending?
The defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don't we talk about it more?
The Golden State's political class comes unglued in the face of a citizens' revolt.
How Southern California survived the collapse of aircraft manufacturing without a bailout
With his glib dismissal of pot legalization, the president looks less like the man, and more like The Man.