FDA

Policy

Nanny State Propaganda

How long before the government places graphic warning labels on junk food?

A. Barton Hinkle | 6.29.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Food-Safety Agencies Team Up, Find Unbelievably Stupid New Way to Waste Money

Baylen Linnekin | 6.29.2011 10:50 AM

Policy

Margarine Bootleggers Sent to Federal Prison

...and other stories of what happens when the government plays with your food.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.22.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

Evidently Smoking Is Bad for You

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2011 6:12 PM

Policy

How Gingrich's Love Drives Him to Kill

Jacob Sullum | 6.17.2011 3:53 PM

Policy

Obama Food Safety Czar Defends Armed Raids on Amish Farmers, Raw Milk Producers

Nick Gillespie | 6.10.2011 8:26 AM

Policy

Ends and Means

Suicide is not a medical procedure.

Jacob Sullum | 6.8.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

When Butter Was a Food Group

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.7.2011 1:34 PM

Policy

I Have No Patience for the Lactose Intolerant!

Nick Gillespie | 6.2.2011 11:10 AM

Policy

But Remember: Marijuana Is Not Medicine

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2011 5:29 PM

Policy

Because Gov't Doesn't Have Enough to Do, It Must Raid Raw Milk Farms!

Nick Gillespie | 5.25.2011 10:21 AM

Policy

Raw Milk Raid on Amish Farmer Highlights Stupid FDA Tactics

Nick Gillespie | 5.16.2011 8:41 AM

Policy

Do Menthol Cigarettes Taste Too Good to Be Legal?

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2011 3:37 PM

Policy

E-Cigarettes Will Remain Legal but Unregulated Until the FDA Issues New Rules

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2011 2:15 PM

Politics

Raw Force vs. Raw Milk

Brian Doherty | 4.29.2011 4:25 PM

Policy

FDA Will Regulate E-Cigarettes As Tobacco Products

Jacob Sullum | 4.27.2011 11:57 AM

Politics

Guess Which Stimulant in Coca-Cola Was Controversial a Century Ago

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2011 1:58 PM

Policy

Reason TV: Who Wants to Live Forever? Dr. Stephen Coles on the Secrets of the World's Oldest People

Reason Staff | 3.21.2011 11:55 AM

Policy

Wait, Smoking Is Dangerous?

The FDA's new crusade

Jacob Sullum | 2.18.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

It Turns Out Nonalcoholic Energy Drinks Are Also an Intolerable Threat to the Youth of America

Jacob Sullum | 2.14.2011 6:34 PM

Policy

How to Homebrew Your Own Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverage or, "Vodka redbull (suck it FDA)"

Nick Gillespie | 2.8.2011 10:16 PM

Politics

Food Safety: Who Cares?

Brian Doherty | 2.7.2011 11:09 AM

Policy

Are You Ready for Some Buzz Bowl? It's FourLoko vs. Joose in The Battle of the Binge!

Reason Staff | 2.6.2011 12:57 PM

Politics

Government Pills

I'm from the government and I'm here to help with new drug discovery

Ronald Bailey | 1.25.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

US Government (Sorta) Reconsiders Poisoning Drug Addicts for their Own Good

Stephen Smith | 1.14.2011 11:54 AM

Policy

Reasoner on Stossel: Nick Gillespie Talks Four Loko Ban

Reason Staff | 1.13.2011 5:50 PM

Politics

Follow the Bouncing Buck

The year's highlights in blame shifting

Jacob Sullum | 12.29.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

The Public Health Case for Electronic Cigarettes

Jacob Sullum | 12.22.2010 5:17 PM

Policy

Why the Feds Banned Four Loko (And is your favorite drink next?)

Reason Staff | 12.22.2010 3:00 PM

Policy

Appeals Court Says FDA May Not Ban E-Cigarettes

Jacob Sullum | 12.7.2010 3:14 PM

Policy

One of These Things Is Not Like the Others. Or Is It?

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2010 1:23 PM

Policy

The Conquering Bureaucracy

A new history of the FDA shows how regulators entrenched and extended their own power.

Keith E. Whittington | 11.29.2010 4:30 PM

Policy

Loco Over Four Loko

The moral panic behind the ban

Jacob Sullum | 11.24.2010 7:00 AM

Policy

David Katz, M.D.: I Don't Get It, So It Should Be Banned

Jacob Sullum | 11.22.2010 1:44 PM

Policy

Four Loko Is Not Evil, Just Vile

Jacob Sullum | 11.18.2010 11:22 AM

Policy

Reason.tv: Raw Foods Raid - The Fight for the Right to Eat What You Want

Zach Weissmueller | 11.17.2010 3:00 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Raw Foods Raid - The Fight For the Right to Eat What You Want

Reason Staff | 11.17.2010 3:00 PM

Policy

Is the FDA Banning Drinks or Censoring Speech?

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2010 1:58 PM

Policy

How Many People Have to Die Before the FDA Acts?

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2010 11:44 AM

Policy

Four Loko Banned…by Its Manufacturer (One Step Ahead of the FDA)

Jacob Sullum | 11.17.2010 11:04 AM

Policy

What, No Dead Babies?

Jacob Sullum | 11.11.2010 1:04 PM

Policy

Have a Drink, Have a Heart Attack

Jacob Sullum | 10.25.2010 1:06 PM

Policy

Regulating Personal Genomics to Death

The FDA threat to direct to consumer genetic testing.

Ronald Bailey | 10.12.2010 4:45 PM