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Civil Liberties

The Government Fix

Just how bad has Mike Nifong screwed up?

Jeff Taylor | 12.22.2006 4:36 AM

Policy

Step Away from the Cold Medicine

Government's drug war fuels meth problem

Radley Balko | 12.21.2006 1:11 PM

World

The Iraq Malaise

Is American influence on the wane?

Michael Young | 12.21.2006 7:40 AM

Culture

Cyborg Sean Hannity Will Save Us!

Science fiction goes political

David Weigel | 12.20.2006 3:53 PM

Economics

Delhi Dilemma

Why India's capital may never become a world-class city

Shikha Dalmia | 12.20.2006 11:25 AM

Culture

Oy, Tannenbaum

You've got your Christmas in my Chanukah.

Jacob Sullum | 12.20.2006 7:03 AM

Politics

The Giving Gap

Is the right more generous than the left?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.19.2006 10:52 AM

Civil Liberties

Mary Cheney Meets Mr. Spock

Parenting in uncharted territory

Cathy Young | 12.19.2006 5:04 AM

Economics

Bob Barr, Unbowed

An interview with the Republican congressman turned Libertarian Party leader

David Weigel | 12.18.2006 7:15 AM

Economics

The Economist and the Dictator

Just what is the connection between Milton Friedman and Augusto Pinochet?

Brian Doherty | 12.15.2006 3:09 PM

Science & Technology

Global Warming Solutions

Markets, taxes, or nothing at all?

Ronald Bailey | 12.15.2006 10:52 AM

Politics

Never Closed

How one bar kept New Orleans' spirit afloat during Katrina -- and what Washington lawmakers should learn from it.

Radley Balko | 12.14.2006 10:39 AM

War on Drugs

Unreasonable Searches and Seizures

The rising use of SWAT teams is bad, but it's about to get worse.

Radley Balko | 12.13.2006 12:20 PM

Policy

Take 32 Grams of Tylenol and Call Me in 25 Years

Florida should stop pretending this pain patient is a drug trafficker.

Jacob Sullum | 12.13.2006 6:37 AM

Economics

Trading Places

William T. Bogart on dynamic cities and unaccountable planners

Jesse Walker | 12.12.2006 12:39 PM

Policy

Michigan's Civil Rights Victory

A well-meaning end to discrimination

Cathy Young | 12.12.2006 5:08 AM

Policy

The Race to Ban What's Bad For Us

Trans fat, smoking, foie gras--what's next?

Nick Gillespie | 12.11.2006 6:30 AM

Policy

Refighting Yesterday's Battles

Jim Crow is dead. Why not bury him?

Jeff Taylor | 12.8.2006 12:24 PM

Science & Technology

Beat Me, Whip Me, Make Me Honest!

How punishment and reputation combine to create cooperation

Ronald Bailey | 12.8.2006 5:27 AM

World

Where to From Here?

Dissecting the Iraq Study Group report

Michael Young | 12.7.2006 4:47 PM

Civil Liberties

A Pariah's Triumph—and America's

What one employee at the Library of Congress did for the gay rights movement

Jonathan Rauch | 12.7.2006 11:30 AM

Policy

Botched Raids Not Rare

Little oversight, bad information a deadly mix

Radley Balko | 12.6.2006 2:31 PM

Civil Liberties

One-Name Celebrities and Four-Letter Words

There's no excuse for the FCC's indecency rulings.

Jacob Sullum | 12.6.2006 5:24 AM

Civil Liberties

Their Bodies, Our Selves

Who owns your body? Hint: It's not you.

Kerry Howley | 12.5.2006 2:29 PM

World

And They'll Get Away With It

A message to critics in an ex-spy's murder

Cathy Young | 12.5.2006 1:51 AM

Politics

The Democrats' War Mandate

What Are They Going to Do About It?

Brian Doherty | 12.4.2006 1:09 PM

War on Drugs

Adios, Presidente

A look back at six unremarkable years of Vicente Fox

David Agren | 12.4.2006 3:05 AM

Politics

Beware the Devil You Don't Know

Will the Democrats actually be worse?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.1.2006 10:16 AM

Science & Technology

Closing the Black/White IQ Gap?

James Flynn and Charles Murray search for a solution.

Ronald Bailey | 12.1.2006 5:00 AM

Trust in Putin

Friday Funnies

Chip Bok | 12.1.2006 4:32 AM

Politics

The Pig Slayer

Sen. Tom Coburn wages a one-man war on pork.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.30.2006 11:03 AM

Policy

One Ring To Ruin Them All

Anti-crime zones hurt innocents instead of protecting them.

Jacob Sullum | 11.29.2006 4:41 AM

Civil Liberties

No More Coulters!

Is a lack of intellectual diversity on campus stunting the Right?

Cathy Young | 11.28.2006 5:41 AM

Politics

The National Mall Goes Kitsch

America's cluttered back yard shows just how hard it is to say no to special interests.

Radley Balko | 11.27.2006 6:15 AM

Policy

It's "Buy Nothing Day" in North Korea Every Day of the Year…

The weak logic of a popular anti-consumerist protest.

Reason Staff | 11.25.2006 7:16 AM

Policy

Brother, Can You Spare 22 Terawatts?

Big ideas for the future of energy

Ronald Bailey | 11.24.2006 3:47 AM

Politics

Nativism Loses

Arizona voters reject Dobbsian Republicans.

Shikha Dalmia | 11.22.2006 9:06 AM

Economics

Milton Friedman, Archliberal

Why the great free market economist was no conservative

Jacob Sullum | 11.22.2006 4:24 AM

Economics

It's Milton Friedman's World: We're Just Living Freely in It

The economist who advocated "Power to the People"

Brian Doherty | 11.21.2006 3:02 PM

Culture

Faith vs. Reason

Is religion a boon to American society, or a bane?

Cathy Young | 11.21.2006 11:02 AM

Science & Technology

Learning To COPA Without It

Get ready to celebrate the death of a bad law

Kerry Howley | 11.21.2006 5:24 AM

Policy

When Legal Meets Marketing

Entertainment and technology converge with culture and politics.

Jesse Walker | 11.20.2006 1:57 PM

Science & Technology

"Climate Change Tourists" Go Home!

The Nairobi global warming conference grinds to an end

Ronald Bailey | 11.17.2006 2:57 PM

Politics

The Two John Edwards

How the '08 hopeful's PlayStation misstep undermines his "Two Americas" meme.

Jeff Taylor | 11.17.2006 10:40 AM

Economics

Milton Friedman, 1912-2006

Reason writers remember the iconic libertarian economist

Brian Doherty | 11.16.2006 1:57 PM

Science & Technology

The Baptist and the Bootlegger

An unlikely coalition for climate control

Ronald Bailey | 11.16.2006 1:32 PM

World

The Return of Realism

The mess in Iraq has some at the White House reconsidering a realist Middle East policy.

Michael Young | 11.16.2006 11:02 AM

Science & Technology

Pay It Forward

What can carbon markets do for economic development?

Ronald Bailey | 11.15.2006 2:39 PM