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Blood and Treasure

Oh you masters of war, you that grow all the fruit...

Jesse Walker | 3.22.2007 1:03 PM

Politics

Bongwater Into Whine

Drug warriors push broad censorship of student speech.

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2007 6:08 AM

Politics

No Newts

Don't get too excited about a Gingrich '08 run.

David Weigel | 3.20.2007 11:38 AM

Civil Liberties

Letter Imperfect

Is the FBI abusing a(nother) PATRIOT provision?

Kerry Howley | 3.19.2007 5:12 AM

Politics

The Massachusetts Mandate Update

Slippery slope to expanded private health insurance?

Ronald Bailey | 3.16.2007 12:06 PM

Politics

It's the Death of Whateverism!

Are neoliberalism and conservatism dying? They need to be.

Brian Doherty | 3.16.2007 5:02 AM

Friday Funnies

The voice of experience

Chip Bok | 3.16.2007 4:46 AM

World

By Way of Defection

Is Iran hemorrhaging high-level officials?

Michael Young | 3.15.2007 11:41 AM

Policy

Second Wind for the Second Amendment

A federal appeals court revives the right to keep and bear arms.

Jacob Sullum | 3.14.2007 7:20 AM

Politics

Jihadis in the Intertubes

The futility of propaganda in the age of information

Jeff Taylor | 3.12.2007 5:02 AM

Science & Technology

Medievalizing Biotech Regulation

Francis Fukuyama wants to control your reproductive decisions.

Ronald Bailey | 3.9.2007 11:57 AM

Reason Happy Hour, March 8 2007

And you were there!

Reason Staff | 3.9.2007 9:55 AM

Politics

Give Me Liberty or Give Me X

Is author Brian Doherty the missing link between the Libertarian Party and Burning Man?

Reason Staff | 3.9.2007 5:41 AM

Politics

The Imaginary Adventures of the U.S. Senate

Sorting fact from fiction in the Congressional Record

Jesse Walker | 3.8.2007 12:20 PM

Culture

The Impact of Academic Bias

Professors do lean to the left -- but are students listening?

Cathy Young | 3.8.2007 6:01 AM

Culture

Welcome to Biotech Park

Michael Crichton's latest novel is readable, daring, and flawed.

Ronald Bailey | 3.7.2007 12:03 PM

Policy

To Life, to Life! Or Fry 'Em?

Even sex offenders can be punished too severely.

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2007 5:15 AM

Policy

Big Business in Body Parts

Biotech firms make healthy profits from tissue sales. Why not the rest of us?

Kerry Howley | 3.6.2007 3:41 PM

Politics

Does Your Candidate Love Jesus?

An atheist presidential hopeful might not have a prayer

Radley Balko | 3.6.2007 12:03 PM

Politics

The Great Do-Over

Conservatives gather to forget George W. Bush, and elect his clone.

David Weigel | 3.6.2007 5:03 AM

Culture

Invasion of the Prostitots

Cultural warriors decry the sexualization of girls. But where's the proof there's a problem?

Kerry Howley | 3.5.2007 4:12 PM

Nanny State

Show on the Road

Can private-public toll partnerships revolutionize the way we drive?

Robert Poole | 3.5.2007 11:43 AM

Civil Liberties

The Madness of Patrick Fitzgerald

Sifting through the nonsense that is the Scooter Libby trial

Michael McMenamin | 3.5.2007 5:41 AM

Science & Technology

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

The FDA versus dying cancer patients.

Ronald Bailey | 3.2.2007 5:08 AM

Culture

A Muckraker on the Wane?

Does the New Yorker actually edit Seymour Hersh?

Michael Young | 3.1.2007 2:56 PM

Policy

Who's Your Nanny?

As meddling scolds, Democrats and Republicans are equal offenders.

Jacob Sullum | 2.28.2007 5:33 AM

Politics

Who Won't You Vote for in 2008?

Let's accentuate the negative in the presidential race.

Brian Doherty | 2.27.2007 5:35 AM

Policy

Experimenting With School Choice

Oakland, Compton show school choice can improve results more than the status quo.

Lisa Snell and Shikha Dalmia | 2.26.2007 5:02 PM

Nanny State

Girl Scouts Want You to Die

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.26.2007 1:31 PM

Policy

"Remove Child Before Folding" And Other Modern Prose Poems

The fine art of idiotic warning labels

Nick Gillespie | 2.26.2007 5:16 AM

Policy

Guns Don't Kill People, Gun Control Kills People

Uganda terrorizes its own citizens under the auspices of UN gun control mandate.

David B. Kopel, Paul Gallant, and Joanne Eisen | 2.23.2007 1:57 PM

Science & Technology

Reading Minds

Is commercial lie detection set to go?

Ronald Bailey | 2.23.2007 5:49 AM

Politics

Palmetto State Fictions

Candidates pander to the South Carolina that suits them.

Jeff Taylor | 2.22.2007 12:50 PM

Policy

All for Philip Morris

Politicians stand up to Big Tobacco by protecting the leading cigarette maker.

Jacob Sullum | 2.21.2007 5:36 AM

Policy

Credit Where Credit Is Due

The Bank of America offers credit cards to illegal immigrants. What could be more American?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.20.2007 2:27 PM

Policy

Injecting Speed

Why the rush to require the HPV vaccine?

Jesse Walker | 2.20.2007 5:56 AM

Politics

Let's Play 20 Questions

A set of stumpers, nags, and insults for the 2008 field

David Weigel | 2.16.2007 12:01 PM

Policy

Here Come the Mandatory Carbon Limits!

But if you have carbon markets, why do you need subsidies?

Ronald Bailey | 2.16.2007 1:31 AM

World

One Down, One to Go

Does the nuke deal with North Korea make a U.S. strike on Iran more likely?

Jeff Taylor | 2.15.2007 5:48 AM

Politics

Reconstructed Strict Constructionist

Rudy Giuliani tries to split the difference on abortion.

Jacob Sullum | 2.14.2007 5:58 AM

Policy

The Kathryn Johnston Indictments: A Good Start. A Long Way to Go.

How to win real reform in Atlanta.

Radley Balko | 2.13.2007 12:13 PM

Politics

Is There Power in a Unity 08?

Send in the centrists? Don't bother, they're here.

Brian Doherty | 2.12.2007 12:37 PM

Politics

The "Beltway Cut"

How to cut the budget while growing it.

Stephen Slivinski | 2.12.2007 6:00 AM

Politics

America's No. 1 Endangered Species

Is the middle class losing "its place at the table?"

Nick Gillespie | 2.9.2007 10:41 AM

On Human Dignity

Will biotechnological progress lead to human degradation? Leon Kass thinks so.

Ronald Bailey | 2.9.2007 6:15 AM

Politics

Friday Funnies

Sen. Hagel's new career

Chip Bok | 2.9.2007 5:47 AM

World

Brandish the Stick, But Don't Use It

Is U.S. brinkmanship on Iran such a bad idea?

Michael Young | 2.8.2007 11:58 AM

Science & Technology

Neteller's Open and Honest Conspiracy

Anti-gambling crusaders go after online payment processors.

Jacob Sullum | 2.7.2007 5:04 AM