Bill Maher's Un-Cool Muslim Bashing
His loose accusations undermine America's progress in protecting minorities.
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The Feds Say: Don't You Dare Call Marijuana Medicine
The Justice Department prosecutes medical marijuana patients while tolerating commercial cannabis.
Don't Silence Graduation Speakers
The best response to allegedly villainous speakers is to let them speak and make them wish they hadn't.
3 Ways to Make Obamacare Less Horrible
It's a dumb and deeply offensive law, but it can be made less dumb and less offensive.
Net Neutrality Nonsense
Pro-net neutrality types warn that if new FCC rules are inadequate, it will be the death of the Internet and free speech. Ignore the hyperbole.
Human Flourishing Requires Natural Rights and Non-Aggression
Revisiting Rothbard's early works.
Greenwald and Chomsky Smack Down Surveillance State Talking Points
Tackling the attacks on Edward Snowden and the complicit media
What Fed Up Gets Wrong About the Food Industry
The new documentary Fed Up claims to shine a critical light on the food industry and the "obesity epidemic." But it ignores the real culprit.
Tell Me Again, Why Is Marco Rubio a Presidential Front-runner?
There's nothing wrong with Rubio's boilerplate anti-Obama positioning, but there's nothing especially unique about it, either.
Pregnant Women Increasingly Face Criminal Prosecution for Positive Drug Tests
Hello fetus, goodbye civil liberties
These Excessive Regulations That Have Crushed Businesses for Years May Threaten Obamacare Next. How Sad.
Obamacare's champions fear a ballot initiative could strangle Covered California with profiteering, delays, and too much bureaucracy.
Godzilla Brings Monsters To Life
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Bryan Cranston in a great monster mashup.
This Is the Number of Innocent People Murdered by Governments. Are You Anti-State Yet?
Being antigovernment is the logical result of taking a close look at the state and its bloody works.
The Misinformed Case for Voter ID
Stricter new requirements may sound reasonable, but they're not reasonable for everyone-or reasonable for democracy.
The Neoconservative Obsession with Iran
Americans should be enjoying cultural and commercial relations with Iranians.
'A Dog Whistle to the Left': Timothy Geithner's New Revelation
Did the Obama administration ask former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to lie?
Robert Sarvis: Libertarian for the U.S. Senate from Virginia
The surprisingly wavemaking L.P. gubernatorial candidate strives to be a surprisingly wavemaking Senate candidate
How Tacky T-shirts Became Contraband in New Orleans
Zoning enforcement is being used to rid the French Quarter of souvenir shops.
Prying Provokes Privacy Protection
Obama's PATRIOT games end in bipartisan support for surveillance reform.
All Hail the "Sharing Economy!" A Mushy Phrase Gives Liberals Cover to Join the Fight Against Big Government
A libertarian's guide to the sharing economy.
Removing Bad Presidents From Office Should Be Easier
Monica Lewinsky's reemergence is a reminder that our presidential safety valve is broken.
Ideology in the Service of Global Warming is No Vice
Both the right and left are biased in their reading of the science, and that's OK.
Timothy Geithner's Flawed Defense of TARP
Obama's former treasury secretary attempts to rehabilitate his record.
The GOP's Immigration Problem
Republican candidates need to brush up on the laws of economics.
The Need for Speed and the Politics of Panics
The results of meth hysteria have been uglier than a tweeker in an anti-drug ad.
The Real Vote Fraud
As a cure for fraudulent voting, a stringent voter ID law is like prescribing morphine for a hangnail. But as a cure for Democratic voting, it's hard to beat.
It's Not Racist to Hate the Government
Democrats and progressives are flat-out wrong about libertarians.
Rothbard's The Ethics of Liberty: Still Worthy After All These Years
Readers who are eager to get on to Rothbard's discussion of the Nonaggression Principle may be tempted to skip the part on natural rights. Don't do it!
Why Civil Rights and Gun Rights Are Inseparable
A riveting new book restores "the black tradition of arms" to its proper place in American history.
Debating Food Policy Requires Agreeing on Some Norms
When it comes to food policy, many writers reach vastly different conclusions. That works only if we all agree to share and follow a few ground rules.
Environmentalists Have Lost the Climate Change Debate
Admitting that executive power is the only way to move (tepidly) forward on climate change policy is basically admitting defeat.
Same As It Ever Was: High School Seniors' Reading and Math Performance Stagnates
School spending increases, the ranks of administrators swell, but scores remain flat.
Rand Paul Should Highlight the Economic Case For Non-Interventionism
An interventionist foreign policy is not only often unwise, it's expensive
California Legislators Fight Divisive Ethnic Battle
Democrats are pitting African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos against each other.
Demented Excess and More in Chef, Neighbors, and Palo Alto
Food porn, frat boys, and teenage wasteland revisited
Truvada: Chill Pill or Party Drug?
A new method of HIV prevention leads to old-school sex-shaming
Bill Clinton Also Hyped the Bogus Iranian Threat
Why? That might be a good question to ask possible presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who basks in her husband's supposed presidential successes.
On Town Prayer, the Majority Has Its Way
Some Americans still stuff their faith down the throats of the minority.
Finding the Truth at Benghazi
Here comes Watergate, 21st-century style-except this time around, innocent people died.
Georgia's School Choice Program Draws Legal Challenge
The Institute for Justice is planning to intervene in the lawsuit, representing parents.
Offensive Speech
Can't a guy say what he thinks anymore? Yes, but the free market may punish you.
The Benghazi Follies
It's not the first time an American president has lied for political purposes.
What's Libertarian About Gamers?
A look at what there is to learn politically about this now-established subculture
Video Games Build Strong Brains
Too often treated as a social vice rather than a supplement to veggies and fresh air, video games may actually be good for you.
