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Barack Obama

Who Wants to Know the Finalists Competing for President Obama's Library?

Too bad: We're telling you anyway.

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 5:20 PM

Ira Stoll on the Return of Bill Clinton

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 4:30 PM

Department of Justice

DOJ Invokes State Secrets in Private Defamation Suit

Target is an advocacy group calling for sanctions against Iran

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 4:25 PM

Scotland

UK's Cameron Uses Guilt Trip to Beg Scots to Stay

Describes possible independence as a "divorce."

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 2:30 PM

ISIS

White House Pushing Congress to Arm Syrian Rebels

What could possibly go wrong?

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 1:55 PM

ISIS

DOJ Launching Program to Try to Stop Americans from Joining Groups Like ISIS

"Terrorism: Not Even Once"

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 1:40 PM

Jacob Sullum: Don't Put Meth Moms in Jail

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 1:30 PM

Fashion

Urban Outfitters Apologizes For Selling Bloodied Kent State Sweatshirts

Too soon?

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 1:23 PM

Police Abuse

Actress Defends Not Producing ID for Cops

Was stopped after kissing her boyfriend in public

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 1:14 PM

A. Barton Hinkle: Get Ready for Keystone Pipeline 2?

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 12:00 PM

Business and Industry

Microsoft to Purchase Maker of Minecraft for $2.5 Billion

No Minesweeper

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 11:32 AM

North Korea

Second American Sentenced to "Labor Re-Education" Camp in North Korea

California 20-something ripped up his tourist visa and demanded asylum before being arrested, charged, and tried

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 11:20 AM

ISIS

Thirty Countries Meet in Paris to Talk ISIS

Want a global war on terror, if you will

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 11:05 AM

Jacob Sullum Explains How Cops Became Robbers

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 8:30 AM

Steve Chapman: Obama's Unnecessary, Unpromising War

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 7:00 AM

Greg Beato on Soylent Cuisine

Reason Staff | 9.14.2014 12:00 PM

Sheldon Richman on Ownership and Ideas

Reason Staff | 9.14.2014 8:30 AM

ISIS

Obama Met with Journalists Before ISIS War Speech

Dude, they're not the ones you need to get permission from.

Reason Staff | 9.13.2014 8:25 PM

ISIS

ISIS Claims to Have Executed British Aid Worker

Reason Staff | 9.13.2014 6:50 PM

Nick Gillespie on a Century of Youth Icons, From Flappers to Hipsters

Reason Staff | 9.13.2014 12:00 PM

Eli Lehrer: Hiking the Minimum Wage Won't Help the Poor

Reason Staff | 9.13.2014 10:30 AM

Baylen Linnekin: Food Freedom Fest Offers Reasons for Optimism

Reason Staff | 9.13.2014 8:00 AM

Voter ID

Wisconsin's Voter ID Law Reinstated

Just in time for the November elections

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 7:50 PM

Scandal

Scandal-Tainted Former S.C. Governor Calls Off Engagement

Battle with ex-wife while dealing with Argentinian girlfriend

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 6:40 PM

California

Initiative to Split Up California Fails to Qualify

Too many signatures determined to be invalid

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 5:35 PM

ISIS

Somebody Tell Kerry: White House Says We're at War with ISIS

What with the airstrikes and all

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 5:15 PM

David Harsanyi on Protecting Free Speech From Politicians

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 4:31 PM

Gay Marriage

Arizona Man Wins Same-Sex Death Benefits Fight

State does not recognize gay marriages

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 4:30 PM

ISIS

CIA Triples Estimate of Size of ISIS

From 10,000 people to more than 30,000

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 3:20 PM

Florida

George Zimmerman Accused of Threatening to Kill Driver

Confrontation on the road

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 2:20 PM

Canada

Toronto Won't Have Mayor Rob Ford to Kick Around Much Longer

Withdraws from re-election race and also has a tumor

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 1:40 PM

Artificial Intelligence

Ronald Bailey Wonders If Artificial Intelligence Will Destroy Humanity

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 1:30 PM

World

Obama Admin Threatened to Prosecute Foleys if They Paid Son's Ransom

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 12:42 PM

Steven Greenhut: A Welcome Softening of California's Tough-on-Crime Approach

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 12:00 PM

Damon Root: What Ken Burns' New Film Gets Right—and Wrong—About the Roosevelts

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 10:30 AM

World

Oscar Pistorius Guilty of Culpable Homicide, Not Murder

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 10:22 AM

Kurt Loder Reviews The Skeleton Twins and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Them)

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 9:00 AM

Sarah Palin

What On Earth Did the Palins Do Now?

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 8:00 AM

Police Catch Escaped Killer T.J. Lane

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 7:00 AM

Scott Shackford Looks Past the 2014 Primaries

Reason Staff | 9.11.2014 4:31 PM

World

America Marks 9/11 Anniversary

Thirteen years after the attack and one day after the president again expands America's role in the Middle East.

Reason Staff | 9.11.2014 4:10 PM

World

Thumbs Up for President's War Plan From John Boehner

So, he has that going for him.

Reason Staff | 9.11.2014 4:01 PM

Politics

20+ Free Staters Win Major Party Primaries For NH Elections

Both Democrats and Republicans

Reason Staff | 9.11.2014 3:51 PM

Economics

Jobless Claims Up For Last Week

Not that you thought the economy was doing great.

Reason Staff | 9.11.2014 2:18 PM

World

Catalans Want Their Own Shot at Independence

Scotland seems to have started a trend.

Reason Staff | 9.11.2014 2:08 PM

Education

D.C. Students Assigned to Compare Bush and Hitler

Teacher "deeply regrets this mistake"

Reason Staff | 9.11.2014 12:01 PM

Steve Chapman: An Endurance Test that Puzzles and Inspires

Reason Staff | 9.11.2014 12:00 PM

Sheldon Richman on Obama Repeating Bush's Folly in Iraq

Reason Staff | 9.11.2014 10:30 AM