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Nanny State

Good Samaritanism Could Lead to Big Fines for Wisconsin Couple

No letting homeless sleep on porch

Reason Staff | 9.23.2014 11:20 AM

Shikha Dalmia on the Feds Botched Oversight of GM's Cobalts

Reason Staff | 9.23.2014 11:00 AM

Prisons

Federal Prison Population Drops for First Time Since 1980

Sea change?

Reason Staff | 9.23.2014 9:42 AM

Capitalism

Ronald Bailey Finds Flood Wall Street Climate Protest a Washout

Reason Staff | 9.23.2014 9:30 AM

Policy

Government-Hired Hackers Discover HealthCare.Gov Security Flaw

Report out today

Reason Staff | 9.23.2014 8:50 AM

World

Video: Navy Launches Missiles Toward ISIS in Syria

Reason Staff | 9.23.2014 7:50 AM

Aaron Malin on Drug War Propaganda Disguised as Police Training

Reason Staff | 9.23.2014 7:00 AM

Syria

Pentagon: U.S. Bombing Syria

ISIS likely target

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 9:37 PM

Policy

After Intrusions, New Fortifications Considered for the White House

How about just encasing it in concrete?

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 7:37 PM

Ira Stoll on What the GOP Can Learn from the Party of Roosevelt and Kennedy

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 4:30 PM

Policy

Court Tosses Doctors' Lawsuit Against Obamacare Mandate Delay

Judges say the physicians have no standing to challenge the move's legality.

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 3:40 PM

Policy

SEC Pays $30 Million to Tipster

What would you say for that kind of cash?

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 3:19 PM

World

Frenchman Reportedly Nabbed by ISIS Affiliate in Algeria

New Middle Eastern franchise opportunity

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 3:10 PM

A. Barton Hinkle on Barack Obama, Imperial President

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 12:00 PM

Robby Soave: The Libertarian Lesson of Lost

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 11:00 AM

Policy

Lois Lerner: 'I'm Proud of My Career and the Job I Did for This Country'

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 10:18 AM

Ronald Bailey Reports on the People's Climate March

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 9:30 AM

Policy

U.S. Troops Arrive in West Africa to Battle Ebola

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 8:35 AM

Emily Ekins: Are Millennials Far Left on Economics?

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 8:30 AM

Jacob Sullum Explains Why Banks Are Still Afraid of Cannabis Cash

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 7:00 AM

Steve Chapman: Do We Need Corporal Punishment?

Reason Staff | 9.22.2014 7:00 AM

Science & Technology

Hundreds of Thousands March in NYC to Warn of 'Climate Change'

Creating a lot of hot air all by themselves

Reason Staff | 9.21.2014 10:05 PM

World

UK PM Promises Greater Scottish Autonomy

Texas needs to give an independence vote a try.

Reason Staff | 9.21.2014 2:50 PM

Politics

Questions Raised Over White House Intruder's Passage Through Security

The president could have fended him off with his razor sharp wit.

Reason Staff | 9.21.2014 2:34 PM

Baylen Linnekin on the High Cost of Homemade Food

Reason Staff | 9.21.2014 2:00 PM

Petr Mach Says There's No Libertarian Case for the EU

Reason Staff | 9.21.2014 10:30 AM

Sheldon Richman on the Anti-Militarist Libertarian Heritage

Reason Staff | 9.21.2014 8:30 AM

World

ISIS Frees 49 Hostages

The Turkish prisoners were held for three months

Reason Staff | 9.20.2014 2:08 PM

From the Archives: The Best of Reason on Youths

Reason Staff | 9.20.2014 2:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Joseph McNamara, Reformist Police Chief, Dead at 79

One of the first major law enforcement officials to criticize the drug war and favor marijuana legalization.

Reason Staff | 9.20.2014 12:05 PM

Gary Chartier on America's Class System

Reason Staff | 9.20.2014 10:30 AM

Baylen Linnekin: The Slow Creep Toward Saner Alcohol Policies

Reason Staff | 9.20.2014 8:00 AM

World

Peace Deal (For Now) In Ukraine

Divvy up the turf

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 8:47 PM

Super Bowl

DoD Asks Itself if It Has Ties to NFL Violence

This is not an Onion headline.

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 5:00 PM

David Harsanyi on Joe Biden's Latest Language Gaffe

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 4:30 PM

Super Bowl

Watch: Goodell Talks NFL Scandals

'We will get our house in order' in handling of domestic violence

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 4:05 PM

War on Cameras

Fullerton, Calif. Cops to Wear Body Cameras

They killed Kelly Thomas.

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 4:00 PM

Joe Biden

Biden's Latest Gaffe: Praises Sex-Scandalous Ex-Senator

At a women's event, to boot.

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 3:00 PM

Al Gore

Al Jazeera Sues Al Gore

What a coincidence! Al Gore is suing Al Jazeera, too!

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 2:30 PM

Central Intelligence Agency

CIA Halts Spying in Europe

Spying stand-downs are common after an operation is compromised, but "never this long or this deep," said a former CIA official.

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 2:00 PM

Natural Gas

Ronald Bailey Asks is the Shale Revolution a 'Ponzi Scheme' or the End of Peak Oil?

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 1:30 PM

Steven Greenhut Asks, Can Police Resist Using New Military 'Toys'?

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 12:00 PM

World

Makers of Tehran 'Happy' Video Sentenced to Prison, Lashes

6 months + 91 lashes

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 10:35 AM

Kurt Loder Reviews The Maze Runner and A Walk Among the Tombstones

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 9:00 AM

War on Drugs

D.C. Wants Legal Pot

Voters favor legalization

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 8:35 AM

Politics

Chris Christie Cleared of Bridge Scandal Blame

No evidence, says DOJ

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 7:40 AM

World

An Independent Scotland Isn't to Be

54 percent vote "No"

Reason Staff | 9.19.2014 6:00 AM

Scotland

Early Returns Have Scotland Staying with UK

Big cities haven't reported out yet

Reason Staff | 9.18.2014 11:25 PM