Barack Obama

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Turning Japanese

Japan's post-bubble policies produced a "lost decade." So why is President Obama emulating them?

Anthony Randazzo, Michael Flynn, and Adam Summers | 6.2.2009 7:00 AM

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Robert Samuelson: "Obama has inspired a collective fawning"

Matt Welch | 6.1.2009 11:22 AM

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GM Rolls Downhill, with Aid of Wind, Taxpayer, Into Bankruptcy

Nick Gillespie | 6.1.2009 7:29 AM

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If The President Is So Hip With New Media, How The Hell Did This Video Ever Get Released by The White House?

Nick Gillespie | 5.28.2009 10:19 AM

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Glenn Reynolds Debuts InstaVision!

Nick Gillespie | 5.28.2009 9:20 AM

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Reason.tv: From the horror masters behind The Auto Bailout, The Stimulus Package, & White House Poetry Night comes a story of true terror…

Reason Staff | 5.27.2009 12:00 PM

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A Tentative Embrace of Charter Schools?

Matt Welch | 5.27.2009 9:44 AM

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U.S. Military Takes Long-Term Lease With Option to Buy in Iraq & Afghanistan

Nick Gillespie | 5.27.2009 7:47 AM

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Sonia Sotomayor on Gun Rights and Racial Preferences

Why libertarians-and everyone who believes in limited government-should worry about Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee

Damon Root | 5.26.2009 6:00 PM

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The Democratic Party: NRA Pawns?

Brian Doherty | 5.26.2009 4:43 PM

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Reason.tv: Morticians Association of America Endorses President Obama's Tough Fuel Efficiency Standards

Reason Staff | 5.26.2009 4:30 PM

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A Public Service Message From Reason.tv: If You Want Health Care Coverage, Go Out and Get Some!

Reason Staff | 5.23.2009 8:12 AM

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Bailouts: Still Totally Unpopular

Matt Welch | 5.22.2009 9:08 AM

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Reason.tv: The President's Briefing Book is B.S.!—Nick Gillespie on Obama's latest fake P.R. stunt

Reason Staff | 5.21.2009 4:30 PM

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History of Weed

Nick Gillespie | 5.21.2009 3:52 PM

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In Anticipation of Gov't-Run Health Care…

Nick Gillespie | 5.21.2009 10:05 AM

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Paying With Our Sins

Now is the time to legalize (and tax) drugs, prostitution, and gambling

Nick Gillespie | 5.20.2009 6:00 PM

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The Housing Boom and Bust

Thomas Sowell on how government policies made the housing crisis possible

Brian Doherty | 5.20.2009 4:30 PM

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Coming to Your Garage: Le Car

The trouble with the government's new automobile emissions and efficiency standards

David Harsanyi | 5.20.2009 2:00 PM

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Hitchens' rules of comedy: If it bends it's funny; if it breaks it's not

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.19.2009 3:11 PM

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Reason.tv: Privatization in the Age of Obama—Reason Foundation's Adrian Moore and Len Gilroy on What's Next

Reason Staff | 5.19.2009 3:00 PM

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Keeping People Imprisoned is Expensive, But Releasing Them? Now You're Talking Real Money

Brian Doherty | 5.19.2009 1:16 PM

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Obama and Big Labor: Look for the Union Label

Nick Gillespie | 5.19.2009 11:24 AM

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Even Gov. Arnold Won't Defend His Record/Ballot Initiatives in Today's Special Election in California!

Nick Gillespie | 5.19.2009 7:49 AM

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Obushma Watch: Torture Photo Flip Flop and Reactions Division

Brian Doherty | 5.18.2009 9:18 AM

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Reason Morning Links: The Tigers Lie Down With a Bam

Jesse Walker | 5.18.2009 8:30 AM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Nick Gillespie in The New York Times on Legalizing Drugs, Gambling, and Prostitution

Reason Staff | 5.17.2009 7:59 AM

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The Age of Debt

Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility"-and delivers the opposite.

Veronique de Rugy | 5.15.2009 4:00 PM

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Dan Savage on the "Obama administration's abysmal record, thus far, on gay issues"

Matt Welch | 5.14.2009 12:40 PM

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Transparency 0, Terrible Burdens of Wielding Enormous Power 1

Matt Welch | 5.14.2009 9:48 AM

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Terrorists in the 'Hood

The truth about Obama's decision to close Guantanamo

Steve Chapman | 5.14.2009 7:00 AM

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Obama and the Alternative Energy Fiasco

The president is wrong to block oil and gas production.

Jon Utley | 5.13.2009 12:00 PM

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Hawk in Hock

Obama pretends to be frugal as we sink deeper in debt.

Jacob Sullum | 5.13.2009 7:00 AM

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Health Care Corporatism Arrives

Consumers will pay the price if government partners with the health care industry

Ronald Bailey | 5.12.2009 3:15 PM

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On the Foreign Tax "Loophole"

Matt Welch | 5.12.2009 2:10 PM

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Laid Off? The Federal Government is Hiring!

Nick Gillespie | 5.12.2009 12:49 PM

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Seeing is Believing

It's time for Obama to keep his promise about stimulus transparency

Veronique de Rugy and Eileen Norcross | 5.12.2009 12:00 PM

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Richard Epstein: Chrysler Bankruptcy "should be struck down on both statutory and constitutional grounds"

Matt Welch | 5.12.2009 9:58 AM

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Reason.tv Redux: Why The Privately Owned Site Recovery.org, Not The Feds' Own Recovery.gov, Is Tracking Stimulus Spending in Real Time

Nick Gillespie | 5.12.2009 9:24 AM

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Guns: As American As Decrying Liberal Elites

Brian Doherty | 5.11.2009 2:50 PM

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Obama Loses His "Cool"

With his glib dismissal of pot legalization, the president looks less like the man, and more like The Man.

Matt Welch | 5.11.2009 12:00 PM

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Q: Why did Obama Pick VP To Take Lead in Picking New Supreme Court Justice? A: Biden May Be a Rule-Breaker Who Stands Up While Riding on Amtrak, Lies About Where He Eats Breakfast, Cheated in College, and Plagiarizes Nearly Every Time He Opens His Yap…

Nick Gillespie | 5.11.2009 10:13 AM

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Obama's Gag Reflex

Matt Welch | 5.11.2009 10:07 AM

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Your $328,000 Photo

Matt Welch | 5.11.2009 9:46 AM

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Alan Keyes Is Making License Plates: Serial Candidate Arrested at Notre Dame

Nick Gillespie | 5.8.2009 5:56 PM

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If You Can't Handle the Stress Test…

Are the Democrats tired of being the bear in the china closet?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.8.2009 12:00 PM

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Now That He Doesn't Have to Work For a Living or Deliver Baby Squirrels in Vermont Anymore, Howard Dean Has Had Enough of Capitalism, Thank You Very Much!

Nick Gillespie | 5.8.2009 9:59 AM

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Reason.tv: Why the Private Sector, Not the Feds, Is Tracking Stimulus Spending in Real Time—Q&A with Recovery.org honcho Mike Pickett

Nick Gillespie | 5.7.2009 3:02 PM