Children

Civil Liberties

Rise of the Carceral Left, John Grisham Child Porn Edition

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.17.2014 4:20 PM

Politics

A Pox on Hillary's "Grandmother Glow" and Prince George Pics

Nick Gillespie | 10.3.2014 2:50 PM

Politics

Stop Criminalizing Parenting: Free Range Kids' Lenore Skenazy on Our Irrational Fears over Child Safety

Anthony Fisher and Nick Gillespie | 9.14.2014 9:30 AM

Policy

D.C. Piano Prodigy Misses 10 Days of Public School, Gets Labeled "Truant." Now She's Homeschooled.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.8.2014 2:41 PM

Sex Crimes

What Is The Rotherham Child Sex Exploitation Scandal All About?

Scott Shackford | 9.4.2014 6:00 PM

Politics

Won't Somebody Please Think of the Children?!

Focus on your own kids and stop criminalizing parenthood

Tyler Koteskey | 9.3.2014 9:00 AM

Vaccines

How to Prevent Your Kids from Getting Cancer

Ronald Bailey | 8.22.2014 12:33 PM

Politics

Why Are We So Overprotective of Our Kids? Is it Because They Cost So Damn Much?

Nick Gillespie | 8.22.2014 9:37 AM

Politics

Are Baby Boomers and GenXers Breeding Monsters?

Nick Gillespie | 8.21.2014 1:17 PM

Policy

No Fucking Way: Woman Arrested for Cursing in Grocery Store

Jacob Sullum | 8.18.2014 1:16 PM

Politics

This Might Be Your Brain on Drugs: Colorado's Softer Anti-Pot Propaganda Is Still Propaganda

Jacob Sullum | 8.15.2014 11:33 AM

Politics

Attacking Marijuana Legalization, Bill Bennett Explains Why Better Pot Is Worse and Why Adults Must Be Treated Like Children

Jacob Sullum | 8.14.2014 8:47 PM

Policy

Pat Robertson Renounces Marijuana Legalization Because 'the Little Kids Are Getting High'

Jacob Sullum | 8.13.2014 4:15 PM

Civil Liberties

Despite Legalization, Colorado Teenagers Stubbornly Refuse to Smoke More Pot

Jacob Sullum | 8.8.2014 1:41 PM

Labor

Illinois Day Care Workers Given Permission to Dump Union

Scott Shackford | 8.1.2014 1:00 PM

Fertility

Smart Women Don't Have Babies

Ronald Bailey | 7.31.2014 12:07 PM

Drones

Here's a List of 700 (Out of At Least 2,300) People Killed in U.S. Drone Strikes in Pakistan

Ed Krayewski | 7.31.2014 11:31 AM

Policy

Another Study Finds No Evidence That Medical Marijuana Increases Cannabis Consumption by Teenagers

Jacob Sullum | 7.30.2014 11:54 AM

Policy

Censors Worry About 'E-Cigarette Ads Aimed at Youths' But Can't Identify Any

Jacob Sullum | 7.23.2014 1:45 PM

Policy

Bolivia Lowers Legal Age of Employment to Help Poor Families

Brittany Morrisey | 7.22.2014 11:24 AM

Policy

Adult-Enticing E-Cigarette Flavors That Only Senators Could Hate

New data show that grownups prefer supposedly juvenile e-cigarette flavors.

Jacob Sullum | 7.21.2014 8:30 AM

Police Abuse

Pa. Cops Beat Up 17-Year-Old Girl Caught Out After Curfew

Ed Krayewski | 7.20.2014 7:39 PM

Policy

Adults Who Use E-Cigarettes to Quit Smoking Prefer Supposedly Juvenile Flavors

Jacob Sullum | 7.18.2014 1:31 PM

Policy

Florida Principal Backs Charter School Conversion, Gets Demoted to "Sorting Crayons"

Brittany Morrisey | 7.11.2014 12:48 PM

Immigration

President Obama Not Going to Border While Visiting Texas Could Be a "Katrina Moment," Says Dem Rep.

Ed Krayewski | 7.8.2014 3:38 PM

Gay Marriage

The Kids of Same-Sex Parents Do Better Than Kids in Conventional Families

Ronald Bailey | 7.7.2014 11:22 AM

Policy

Buffalo Makes Kindergarten Mandatory

Brittany Morrisey | 7.1.2014 5:00 PM

Politics

Obama's Amnesty Legislation Misunderstood by Illegal Immigrants—Now DHS Needs Thousands of Pairs of Men's Briefs for Detained Illegal Immigrant Children

Brittany Morrisey | 6.25.2014 4:25 PM

Police Abuse

Philly Cop Finally Getting Suspended, Fired, for Fighting With Children—Investigation Took Two and a Half Years

Ed Krayewski | 6.25.2014 12:05 PM

Policy

Jay Rockefeller's Vaping Vapors

A Senate hearing highlights irrational hostility toward e-cigarettes.

Jacob Sullum | 6.25.2014 7:00 AM

World

Check Out the CIA's Demonic, Face-Melting Osama bin Laden Toy for South Asian Kids

The face of the toy was designed to melt off and reveal a demon once in the hands of Pakistani and Afghan children.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.20.2014 12:02 PM

Children

Help Us, Mr. Police Officer! It's a Man Selling Children's Books!

Scott Shackford | 6.18.2014 4:40 PM

Policy

Chicago Offers Citizens $100 to Tattle on Cigarette Tax Cheats. For the Children!

Brittany Morrisey | 6.18.2014 3:50 PM

Policy

Mom Hires Craigslist Driver for 9-Year-Old Son, Gets Thrown in Jail

Lenore Skenazy | 6.18.2014 11:32 AM

Policy

Does Using Drugs 'Even Just Once' Change Your Brain Forever?

Jacob Sullum | 6.16.2014 3:04 PM

Economics

Obama: 'The World Is Less Violent Than It Has Ever Been.' He's Right!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.12.2014 11:39 AM

Civil Liberties

Kid Twirls a Pencil in Class, N.J. Threatens to Take Him From His Dad and Requires Blood and Urine Testing

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.11.2014 11:41 AM

Police Abuse

SWAT Team Reportedly Throws Flash Bang, Burns Toddler During No-Knock Raid

Ed Krayewski | 5.30.2014 7:47 AM

Politics

Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert: Just Talking About Immigration Reform Leads to Child Sex Slavery

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.22.2014 3:10 PM

Bullying

City Council Interested in Power to Arrest 5-Year-Olds for Serial Bullying

Ed Krayewski | 5.9.2014 3:15 PM

Police Abuse

Arrest of 9-Year-Old in Portland Illustrates Public Safety Threat Police Unions Can Pose

Ed Krayewski | 5.9.2014 9:36 AM

Policy

Pennsylvanians Can't Buy Beer and Wine at the Grocery Store Because 'It Only Takes a Little Bit of Greed to Kill a Child'

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2014 11:53 AM

Culture

Playground Freedom

Fewer rules, fewer bullies

Matthew Feeney | 4.30.2014 7:00 AM

Public schools

Kindergarten Show Canceled So Kids Can Be 'College and Career Ready.' Thanks Obama!

Ed Krayewski | 4.27.2014 12:08 PM

Politics

Promise and Peril in Tech Approaches To Stopping Child Sex Trafficking

From surveying to surveilling to spreading information, one organization is showing promise and raising concern.

Zenon Evans | 4.22.2014 4:30 PM

Policy

Save E-Cigarettes From the Children

Concerns about underage consumption should not dictate the choices available to adults.

Jacob Sullum | 4.21.2014 8:30 AM

Marijuana

South Dakota Clinic Offers Parents Free Drug Tests for Kids, No One Takes Offer Yet

Ed Krayewski | 4.18.2014 2:30 PM