Children

Policy

What's Next: Children Barred From Coal Mines? Nanny State Bans Undermine School Tests, Satanic Rituals, Farm Work

Nick Gillespie | 3.27.2012 9:30 AM

Policy

What's the Problem with Dropping Out?

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.20.2012 5:14 PM

Policy

It Might Be Premature to Blame 'Meth Babies' for Imposing 'Tremendous Burdens on Society'

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2012 5:52 PM

Politics

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

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.16.2012 9:50 PM

Politics

A Guide to Joseph Kony and the Backlash Against Invisible Children

Nick Sibilla | 3.9.2012 12:30 PM

Policy

For Fewer Crushed Children, Feds Mandate Rear-View Cameras For All Cars by 2014

Julie Ershadi | 2.28.2012 8:00 PM

Politics

Narcotic Honey Traps: Drug Cops Seduce Teenagers

Julie Ershadi | 2.23.2012 6:45 PM

Policy

Free-Range Parenting: You're Going to Go to Jail. Maybe.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.16.2012 4:31 PM

Politics

LAUSD Principal Focuses On Real Miramonte Criminals: The Children

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.14.2012 8:35 PM

Policy

North Carolina Food Inspector Rejects Little Girl's Home-Packed Lunch in Favor of Chicken Nuggets

Jacob Sullum | 2.14.2012 7:24 PM

Politics

L.A. Teachers Deliver for Kids by Blindfolding, Fondling Them

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.6.2012 5:14 PM

Policy

Is Backpage Responsible for Kidnapping and Rape?

Jacob Sullum | 1.26.2012 4:24 PM

Policy

Maybe Schools Don't Control What Kids Eat

Jacob Sullum | 1.24.2012 4:49 PM

Policy

Conservatives Against Consumption

Are fossil fuels responsible for moral and social decay?

Ronald Bailey | 1.11.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

The FCC's Incomprehensible Ban on Broadcast Indecency

The Supreme Court examines TV censorship.

Jacob Sullum | 1.11.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

'Things Happened'

The year's highlights in shifting responsibility

Jacob Sullum | 12.28.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

"Bleeding Heart Libertarian" Cares So Much About the Poor He Wants to Make it Illegal for Them to Bear Children

Brian Doherty | 12.27.2011 10:32 AM

Policy

Dick Durbin: Ban Flavored Cigars—for the Children

Jacob Sullum | 12.23.2011 2:08 PM

Policy

Study Suggests Nearly 1 in 3 Young People Arrested By the Age of 23

Lucy Steigerwald | 12.19.2011 5:19 PM

Policy

Did Teen Pot Smoking Rise or Hold Steady This Year? Yes.

Jacob Sullum | 12.14.2011 2:16 PM

Policy

Sexting by Minors Is Much Less Common Than You Think

Jacob Sullum | 12.5.2011 1:56 PM

Policy

Another Depressing Story of a Kid Narcing on His Parents

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.17.2011 10:20 AM

Policy

Penn State, Joe Paterno, and…the Profit Motive? Or, The Dumbest Theory Yet of Why Child-Molesting at a Non-Profit Institution Went Unreported For So Long.

Nick Gillespie | 11.14.2011 9:17 PM

Policy

Vodka-Soaked Tampons Are 'Everywhere'

Jacob Sullum | 11.14.2011 11:15 AM

Policy

A Life Sentence for Possessing Child Pornography

Jacob Sullum | 11.7.2011 3:08 PM

Politics

2004 Video Shows Texas Judge William Adams Beating Daughter; Judge Says, "Not as Bad as it Looks"

Nick Gillespie | 11.2.2011 1:28 PM

Politics

Even Time Magazine Knows Your Children Are Safe From Marijuana Candy

Lucy Steigerwald | 10.31.2011 2:48 PM

Politics

Do Taxpayers a Favor: Let Your Kid Walk to School or Ride the Darned Bus

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.4.2011 10:23 AM

Policy

FDA Warnings on Anti-Depressants for Teens Cause Serious Side Effects

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.27.2011 10:44 AM

Policy

Who Will Protect Children From Dangerously Exciting Cartoons?

Jacob Sullum | 9.12.2011 3:32 PM

Policy

Headline Grabbing Study of the Week: For Kids to Learn, SpongeBob Must Die!

Nick Gillespie | 9.12.2011 10:54 AM

Politics

"Not Every Human Problem Deserves a Law"

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.8.2011 3:09 PM

Policy

'Childhood Itself Is Now in Crisis'

Jacob Sullum | 9.1.2011 5:19 PM

Politics

Kids Put Adults on Trial in Vintage 1986 Ridley Scott Commercial on the Deficit

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.18.2011 1:59 PM

Policy

Saturday Is Lemonade Freedom Day!

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.17.2011 4:40 PM

Politics

Van Jones Forces Innocent Children to Advocate Infrastructure Spending, Oppose Corporate Personhood on YouTube

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 8.12.2011 12:02 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Do Parents Matter? Q&A with Bryan Caplan, Author of Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 7.21.2011 3:00 PM

Policy

Are Safe Parks Making Kids Neurotic?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.19.2011 2:33 PM

Policy

"Go the Fuck to Sleep" Not Funny, Says Killjoy at CNN.com

Nick Gillespie | 6.28.2011 3:31 PM

Policy

Samuel L. Jackson, of Course, Reads Go the Fuck to Sleep

Matt Welch | 6.16.2011 2:13 PM

Politics

San Francisco Circumcision Intactivist's Anti-Semitic Comix

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.5.2011 8:48 PM

Policy

Froshes Can't Handle Queen's English: Blame Gatsby (or Wolfsheim)

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.21.2011 7:37 PM

Policy

How Did Toucan Sam Became a Scapebird for Childhood Obesity?

Jacob Sullum | 4.29.2011 1:42 PM

Politics

Stivic Stymied in Finale of First Five Follies

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.7.2011 9:10 PM

Policy

Economist Bryan Caplan: Kids Can Be Cheaper Than You Think…

Brian Doherty | 4.7.2011 12:51 PM

Policy

Village Voice: Highly-Publicized Sex Trafficking Report Is Mostly Made Up

Radley Balko | 3.29.2011 1:05 PM

Policy

Ethiopian Government Slashes Foreign Adoptions

Jacob Sullum | 3.10.2011 5:06 PM

Policy

Prosecutor Defends Child Pornography Charge While Admitting It Is Unjust and Inappropriate

Jacob Sullum | 3.9.2011 11:48 AM