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Who's the Leader of the Cult That's Made for You and Me?

Matt Welch | 12.22.2008 11:54 AM

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Did You Double Your Pleasure?

Matt Welch | 12.22.2008 8:42 AM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Doherty vs. Henwood in a Bloody Final Round

Reason Staff | 12.19.2008 4:21 PM

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Try to Relax Over the Few Weeks, Because Obama is Gonna Stimulate the Hell Out of the Country Come January

Nick Gillespie | 12.19.2008 7:33 AM

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Reason Writers Around Town: Doherty vs. Henwood on Federal Debt

Reason Staff | 12.18.2008 9:01 PM

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Sen. Tom Coburn on Goverment Waste, Including Loan Guarantees to Spanky's Liquor World and Pistol Pete's Beef 'n Beer

Nick Gillespie | 12.15.2008 11:15 AM

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And This Time We Didn't Even Get New Orleans!

Matt Welch | 12.15.2008 9:13 AM

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"Under normal economic conditions we would prefer that markets determine the ultimate fate of private firms"

Matt Welch | 12.12.2008 10:18 AM

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Robert J. Samuelson on The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: How Reagan and Volcker tamed economic policy—and why Obama should be listening

Nick Gillespie | 12.10.2008 4:30 PM

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If Police Responded to Every Third Call, That Would Save Money Too

Jacob Sullum | 12.10.2008 10:43 AM

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All Infrastructure Spending Is Not Created Equally

Randomly pouring billions of dollars into roads won't fix America's gridlocked transportation system

Adrian Moore and Sam Staley | 12.8.2008 3:00 PM

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The $102 Trillion Bailout

Jacob Sullum | 12.3.2008 3:10 PM

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Welcome, Taxpayers!

Radley Balko | 12.3.2008 2:21 PM

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When Is 'Not an Option' Not an Option?

Jacob Sullum | 12.3.2008 1:45 PM

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"Unlike bank bailouts and auto loan guarantees, state and local aid does not rely on the business strategies of traumatized corporate executives to be effective"

Matt Welch | 12.2.2008 8:17 AM

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Obama's Numbers

The president-elect has promised to make his math add up. Therein lies a glimmer of possibility.

Matt Welch | 12.1.2008 3:00 PM

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Lone Star Lessons

What Texas and Florida can teach big spending states

Leonard Gilroy | 11.26.2008 4:30 PM

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New Council of Economic Advisers Chief Romer on Taxes and the Beast

Brian Doherty | 11.24.2008 3:30 PM

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Once More into the Bailout Breach, This Time for Citigroup

Nick Gillespie | 11.24.2008 10:59 AM

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Breaking (From Yesterday)!: Reason Foundation's Proactive No Vote on Tom Daschle as HHS Secretary

Nick Gillespie | 11.20.2008 1:14 PM

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What's the Matter With Libertarians?

Thomas Frank blames the freedom movement for Jack Abramoff and George W. Bush

Jesse Walker | 11.20.2008 12:00 PM

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The Favor Factory

Radley Balko | 11.17.2008 5:59 PM

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SC Gov. Mark Sanford to Feds: Drop Dead!

Nick Gillespie | 11.17.2008 2:01 PM

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The Important Thing Is that the Big 2.5 Automakers Should Get $25 Billion from Somewhere…

Nick Gillespie | 11.17.2008 11:37 AM

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Why State Budgets Are in the Crapper (Hint: It's Not the Economy)

Nick Gillespie | 11.10.2008 8:23 AM

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The GAO's Transition Wishlist

Nick Gillespie | 11.6.2008 10:57 AM

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What If Ted Stevens Threatens Not to Resign?

Jacob Sullum | 10.29.2008 3:07 PM

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"If Obama hates Bush's policies, hopefully he will cut government."

Nick Gillespie | 10.24.2008 4:25 PM

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Obama's Job Fetish

Beware any politician who promises to create new jobs

Jacob Sullum | 10.22.2008 7:00 AM

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Privatizing the Way Out of Shortfalls

Nick Gillespie | 10.21.2008 2:03 PM

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Tomorrow We Scrimp, But Tonight We Spend!

Nick Gillespie | 10.20.2008 1:02 PM

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The Curious Case of Lousiana Film Subsidies

Nick Gillespie | 10.13.2008 9:53 AM

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What the United States Needs Is More Debt, Er, Credit

Brian Doherty | 10.9.2008 10:36 AM

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The Nearly $700 Billion Payout No One Talked Much About

Brian Doherty | 10.1.2008 8:32 PM

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An Expert-Induced Bubble

The nasty role of ratings agencies in the busted housing market

David Levy and Sandra Peart | 9.30.2008 7:00 AM

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What's $7 Billion When You're Ready to Blow 100 Times As Much?

Jacob Sullum | 9.26.2008 6:39 PM

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What's up With Wired's Presidential To Do List?

Mike Riggs | 9.24.2008 12:14 PM

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Ted Stevens on Trial

Jacob Sullum | 9.22.2008 5:23 PM

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We're the Government. We'd Rather Pay for It

Radley Balko | 9.10.2008 8:52 AM

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Serve, Protect, and Ignore

The Republican platform respects the Constitution-but only when it's convenient.

Jacob Sullum | 9.10.2008 7:00 AM

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Freddie Mac the Freeloader

Nick Gillespie | 9.9.2008 8:46 AM

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1990s Nostalgia Sweeps Nation: Government Shutdowns, Doc Martens to Follow

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.8.2008 3:55 PM

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Nobody's Default But Ours

Brian Doherty | 9.8.2008 3:22 PM

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The Subsidy State

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens' accomplishments are worse than his alleged crimes

Jacob Sullum | 9.3.2008 7:00 AM

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Who Will Audit the Auditors?

Jacob Sullum | 8.22.2008 11:40 AM

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MOTHER-Mucking Senators

Jacob Sullum | 7.30.2008 12:16 PM

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The Obstinate Obstetrician

Sen. Tom Coburn resists the tyranny of good intentions

Jacob Sullum | 7.30.2008 7:00 AM

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