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Political Ad Spending tops $500 Million

It's a privately funded media economic stimulus package!

Reason Staff | 8.16.2012 8:50 PM

Politics

Obama Campaign Hits Back over Spec Ops Ad

Accuses GOP of "Swift Boat" attacks.

Reason Staff | 8.15.2012 8:15 PM

Culture

Bad Idea of the Day: Hanging a Mannequin Off a Billboard

Sign will come down after calls from people thinking it's real.

Reason Staff | 8.8.2012 3:37 PM

Politics

Can Romney Make Solyndra a Campaign Issue?

Scott Shackford | 5.29.2012 4:32 PM

Policy

Advertising in the Olympic Corporate State

Jesse Walker | 5.25.2012 10:19 AM

Politics

Political Motivations in Scott Walker-Related Probe

D.A.'s man in Milwaukee decks home with pro-union, anti-governor propaganda.

Matt Kittle | 5.22.2012 7:11 PM

Politics

Mexican Congressional Candidate Wants to End Drug War. Also, She Poses Topless.

Scott Shackford | 5.22.2012 5:59 PM

Culture

"Here's a Car That Any Young Technocrat Would Be Proud Of"

Jesse Walker | 5.11.2012 9:21 AM

Policy

Dianne Feinstein: 'Just Say No' Is the Solution to Prohibition-Related Violence

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2012 6:16 PM

Policy

How Long Will Nicholas Kristof Continue to Profit From Sex Trafficking?

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 1:31 PM

Culture

Young People Switch Media Platforms Every Two Minutes

Ed Krayewski | 4.9.2012 3:18 PM

Politics

Which New Anti-Obama Ad is More Terrifying and/or Bizarre, Rick Santorum's "Obamaville" or Herman Cain's "Rabbit"?

Lucy Steigerwald | 3.26.2012 11:10 AM

Policy

6th Circuit Approves Cigarette Warning Labels and Suppression of Risk Information but Rejects Ad Limits

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2012 6:56 PM

Politics

Five Ways Citizens United Is Making Politics Better

The controversial 2010 Supreme Court ruling is already bringing us more competitive campaigns, funnier ads and greater freedom of speech.

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.17.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Is Jason Russell's Hysterical Naked Madness Good for Kony?

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.16.2012 9:50 PM

Politics

Who Will Save the Poor Incumbents From the Super PAC Onslaught?

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2012 3:38 PM

Politics

Halftime in America: Remy Chrysler Ad Parody

Meredith Bragg | 2.7.2012 8:30 PM

Policy

Is Backpage Responsible for Kidnapping and Rape?

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2012 4:24 PM

Politics

The Rap Against Super PACs

Jacob Sullum | 1.12.2012 7:36 PM

Politics

'Things Happened'

The year's highlights in shifting responsibility

Jacob Sullum | 12.28.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

America's First Line of Defense Against the Sit 'n' Sleep Commercial

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.13.2011 3:41 PM

Politics

Federal Judge Blocks New Cigarette Warning Labels

Jacob Sullum | 11.7.2011 3:48 PM

Policy

Critics of Online Sex Ads Hide Behind Children

Jacob Sullum | 10.31.2011 5:05 PM

Policy

Mark Bittman Corrects Fact-Resistant Food Policy Analysts…Such As Mark Bittman

Jacob Sullum | 10.17.2011 3:09 PM

Policy

'Childhood Itself Is Now in Crisis'

Jacob Sullum | 9.1.2011 5:19 PM

Culture

British Ad Nannies Acknowledge That Julia Roberts Is Attractive, Ban Photoshopped Makeup Ad Featuring Her Anyway

Peter Suderman | 7.29.2011 4:02 PM

Policy

We Can Sell Our Beer in Texas, but We Can't Tell You Where

Jacob Sullum | 7.12.2011 12:40 PM

Culture

New Study on Kids, Ads, & Obesity Says Same Thing in Mildly Different Way

Baylen Linnekin | 6.28.2011 4:11 PM

Policy

Evidently Smoking Is Bad for You

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2011 6:12 PM

Policy

Dallas Bullies Businesses Into Dropping Challenge to Silly Sign Rules

Jacob Sullum | 6.7.2011 5:02 PM

Policy

How Did Toucan Sam Became a Scapebird for Childhood Obesity?

Jacob Sullum | 4.29.2011 1:42 PM

Policy

Wanted: Objective Scientific Studies of Ways to Constrain the Anti-Social Behavior of Evil, Food-Foisting Corporations

Jacob Sullum | 4.28.2011 4:26 PM

Policy

Oh My!

Jacob Sullum | 4.13.2011 4:10 PM

Politics

More Co-Conspirators in the Light Cigarette 'Fraud'

Jacob Sullum | 3.7.2011 12:50 PM

Policy

Wait, Smoking Is Dangerous?

The FDA's new crusade

Jacob Sullum | 2.18.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Are the French Sophisticated Enough to Tolerate Images of Cigarettes?

Jacob Sullum | 1.24.2011 3:18 PM

Policy

Judge Says New York City Can't Force Cigarette Sellers to Scare Away Their Customers

Jacob Sullum | 12.30.2010 11:19 AM

Politics

Follow the Bouncing Buck

The year's highlights in blame shifting

Jacob Sullum | 12.29.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

Drug Warrior Quotes That Sound Too Good to Be True

Jacob Sullum | 12.8.2010 4:09 PM

Culture

This Ford's for You, Charlie Brown!

Matt Welch | 12.7.2010 4:36 PM

Politics

From the Annals of Advertising History

Jesse Walker | 12.1.2010 4:52 PM

Politics

The Year of YouTube Advertising

The wildest crop yet of online campaign commercials

Armin Rosen and Jesse Walker | 11.11.2010 10:30 AM

Politics

One Last Buzz for Prop 19

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.1.2010 11:42 AM

Civil Liberties

O.C. Town's War on "Blight" of Free Speech

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.28.2010 6:41 PM

Politics

Let's Hope Jon Stewart's Audience Really Is Full of Stoners—and Not the Lazy Kind

Jacob Sullum | 10.28.2010 6:19 PM

Economics

The Original Mad Man

Advertising genius Albert Lasker transformed America.

Greg Beato | 10.22.2010 10:30 AM

Politics

What Republican Spending Advantage?

Jacob Sullum | 10.21.2010 11:25 AM

Policy

Can New York Force Tobacco Retailers to Scare Away Their Customers?

Jacob Sullum | 10.14.2010 7:38 PM