Are Tax Cuts Working in Kansas?
Don't believe the hype you read in The New York Times.
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The Case for Just War Theory
It's time for our foreign policy to return to first principles.
Where Pot Might Be Legal Soon
Initiatives on the ballot this year could legalize marijuana in Alaska, Oregon, and the nation's capital.
Is Obama To Blame for the World's Crises?
In practice, our interventions often exact a terribly high price for a dismal result.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
Who Was Jane Cobden?
She cared about land reform, peace, and social justice, not unlike libertarians of her time
Hanging Delayed is Hanging Denied: Abolish the Dysfunctional Death Penalty
Long delays and legal maladministration are further reason to dump capital punishment.
Government Menu Mandates Are Not Curing Obesity
Obesity rates may be leveling off or even falling.
Are Teachers Underpaid? Let's Find Out
If teachers believe they aren't making what they're worth, let's free them from union constraints and let them find out what the job market has to offer.
'Editing' Life With Gene Drives is a Great Way to Play God
Researchers develop a powerful new tool to manage wild ecosystems.
Are Minimum-Wage Hikers Being Stingy?
They like one-sided research. They don't like that this research paints them as cheap.
Magic in the Moonlight: Good Woody. Lucy: Girl Powers.
Colin Firth joins Allen on the Côte d'Azur, and Scarlett Johansson explores several new mental dimensions.
Is Detroit's New Light Rail Line America's Greatest Boondoggle?
A $137 million three-mile train is coming to a nearly deserted avenue in a bankrupt city.
Will John Roberts 'Redeem Himself' on Obamacare?
The specter of judicial deference still haunts Halbig v. Burwell.
Immigrant Kids and the Fear of Disease
The insistence on stigmatizing migrating foreigners because they are not exempt from normal health troubles is an old disorder. But it's entirely homegrown.
Contemporary Democracy Is a Fraud
Once it grows to a certain size, so-called democratic government begins to soften and weaken the people.
The Public Turns Against War
In poll after poll, Americans reject policies that might put U.S. troops in harm's way.
Los Angeles Is Killing Itself
The romantic, popular conception of the city bears increasingly little resemblance to Los Angeles today.
Prosecutors Can Screw With Hackers Just for Saying 'Fuck Shit Up,' Warns Security Expert
Vaguely written laws give federal prosecutors the power to target hackers at will.
Over-Policing America
SWAT teams were once used only in emergencies such as riots or hostage situations. But today there are more than 50,000 "no-knock raids" a year.
Stop Segregating Sports by Gender
What American Ninja Warrior tells us about sex segregation.
Drug War Refugees
Thousands of Central American children are fleeing prohibition-related violence.
You Can't Blame Americans for Not Feeling Exceptional
John Kerry called it like it is, and neocons are throwing a tiresome fit.
Life and Death of a Russian Freedom Fighter
There is a certain symbolism in the fact that Valeria Novodvorskaya died just as the Putin regime was being fully exposed as the gangster state that she had always said it was.
Dodd-Frank and the Age of Endless Regulation
In this age of endless regulation, it's hard to imagine that the legal and regulatory details of the law will ever truly be settled.
Adult-Enticing E-Cigarette Flavors That Only Senators Could Hate
New data show that grownups prefer supposedly juvenile e-cigarette flavors.
The Truth About Violence in Chicago
Judged as a whole, Chicago is doing a lot of things right. Judged by the plight of its least fortunate, that's not nearly enough.
Punishing Prostitution Clients Is Not a Feminist Solution
Conceptually the "Nordic Model"-which criminalizes the buying rather than the selling of sexual services-strips women of agency and autonomy.
Let's Try a Libertarian Foreign Policy
Don't believe haters like Rick Perry and Chris Christie. A libertarian foreign policy is the only cure for what ails us abroad.
France's Absurd New 'Homemade' Law Handcuffs Restaurants
France's restaurants and French cooking are under attack. The enemy comes from within-and wears a white hat.
Obama Is Calling for 'Economic Patriotism'. Don't Listen.
Where we stand on the issue of corporate taxation is no way to measure a person's loyalty to his country.
Famine No More: The World of Plenty Lies Ahead
The prophets of overpopulation doom and imminent global famine will likely once again be disappointed.
Boyhood: Life Itself. I Origins: Adrift in the Spirit World.
Richard Linklater delivers a long-form masterwork, Michael Pitt and Brit Marling get lost in a sci-fi muddle.
The Pink Elephant in the Room: Eyes on Gay Republican Candidates
Is the political viability of gay GOP candidates another sign of libertarian influence on the party?
Again With the Isolationist Smears
Even interventionism is sometimes too isolationist for today's on the go interventionists
Obama's 'Chilling' Effect
The government's goal with chilling is to deter dissent without actually interfering with it.
Conservatives Should Embrace Obama's Plan For Tolls to Rebuild Interstate Highways
The president's plan would actually give states more control, tap the private sector's capital, and move the country closer to the Tea Party's user-pays principles.
Let People Live Where They Choose
Mass transit and "planned spaces" appeal to the bureaucratic mind, but Americans want to stay in their suburban homes.
Should We Treat Juvenile Defendants as Adult Criminals?
Two cases from Virginia raise troubling questions.
Should Expectant Moms Who Test Positive For Drugs Go to Jail?
Tennessee's law criminalizing drug use during pregnancy arbitrarily heaps punishment on reviled women.
Democratic Accountability Made as Simple as an App
The California Report Card is a growing, grassroots tool for individual citizens to make their government officials listen.
Foreign Kids, Heartless Nativism, and America's Huckleberry Finn Problem
Nativist demands to deport kids appeal neither to America's humanity nor to its commitment to limited government.
