Government Waste

Politics

HuffPo Blames Media for Failure of All New Solyndras

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.29.2012 11:06 PM

Politics

Why State Solutions Always Lead to New State Solutions

If you want progress, stop cleaning up after the elephants (and donkeys).

Sheldon Richman | 6.24.2012 8:00 AM

Politics

Schilling Claims He Lost Fortune in Government-Funded Video Game Studio Collapse

Scott Shackford | 6.22.2012 3:52 PM

Politics

Peter Schiff In the Octagon with Furious Congressbots

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.13.2012 11:48 PM

Politics

Your Stimulus Dollars at Work: Uncle Sam Buys Kindles for $6,660 a piece

Shikha Dalmia | 6.12.2012 10:10 AM

Politics

More Government Employees Paid Twice Average Salary, Because They're That Damn Good

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.11.2012 4:58 PM

Politics

Border Patrol "procured unmanned aircraft before implementing adequate plans," Not Using Drones They Have, More on the Way

Ed Krayewski | 6.11.2012 2:43 PM

Politics

Schilling Shifts from Video Games to Blame Game in Rhode Island Loan Disaster

Scott Shackford | 5.30.2012 2:06 PM

Politics

Arizona Secretary of State Asks Hawaii to Verify President Obama's Birth, Hawaii Asks Arizona Secretary of State to Verify Himself

Ed Krayewski | 5.18.2012 7:05 PM

Politics

July 1: Do or Die for California High Speed Train Funding (Guess Which One We're Hoping for?)

Scott Shackford | 5.17.2012 1:59 PM

Politics

California Austerity: $5 Billion Spending Hike: Cavanaugh on Fox L.A., 10 p.m. tonight

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.14.2012 11:27 PM

Policy

TSA Slapped for "Serious Inefficiencies" in House Report

J.D. Tuccille | 5.11.2012 3:17 PM

Politics

Good Work If You Can Get It; New Jersey Investigates Union Work Done Under Public Pay

Ed Krayewski | 5.10.2012 4:28 PM

Politics

Broke Arizona Town Wastes Nearly 10% of its Annual Budget Subsidizing Professional Hockey

Matt Welch | 5.10.2012 10:13 AM

Politics

Trainspotters: Deriving Numbers by Counting "Nonsensical," "Intellectually Dishonest"

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.8.2012 7:39 PM

Politics

New Jersey State Police Superintendent Caught in Apparent Lie over High-Speed "Death Race" Escorts

Ed Krayewski | 5.4.2012 12:11 PM

Politics

How the L.A. Riots Changed Nothing

Celebrating 20 years of "doing it to the people"

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.29.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh on the 20th Anniversary of the L.A. Riots

Reason Staff | 4.29.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Isn't America Already Financially Repressed?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.26.2012 5:57 PM

Politics

Hysterity! Global Panic about "Austere" 9 Percent Spending Hike

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.25.2012 8:49 PM

Politics

Joe Shmoe Shrugs: Kotkin on California's Middle-Class Exodus

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.22.2012 5:10 PM

Politics

Americans Say Federal Government Wastes 56 Cents of Every Tax Dollar

Emily Ekins | 4.18.2012 2:48 PM

Politics

Americans Say Federal Government Wastes 56 Cents of Every Tax Dollar

Emily Ekins | 4.18.2012 2:48 PM

Politics

Nothing Left to Cut! California Spends $205,000 to Move $15 Shrub.

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 10:20 PM

Politics

Loan-Modification Scams Only News When There's Hotness Involved

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.30.2012 7:42 PM

Politics

Municipal Corruption as a Tourist Attraction

Anthony Fisher | 3.30.2012 10:01 AM

Politics

Recovery In Action: Nearly $300 Billion Student Debt In Default

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.25.2012 6:35 PM

Politics

The Horrible (and Continuing) Waste of 9/11

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.19.2012 5:46 PM

Politics

Smart City Logic: Ten Tall Buildings Worth More Than 20,000 Family Homes

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.27.2012 8:08 AM

Politics

Redevelopment Leaves Behind $30 Billion Debt, Hundred-Millions in "Other Expenditures"

Doomed agencies should sell off their property and disappear.

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.25.2012 7:00 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh on How to Undo the Damage Caused By Redevelopment

Reason Staff | 1.25.2012 7:00 PM

Politics

Bankrupt Solyndra: Let Us Give Bonuses

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.12.2012 10:06 AM

Politics

11 Things Washington Post Readers Think Government Screwed Up in 2011

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.27.2011 9:43 AM

Politics

No, Lawrence, There Is No Stimulus

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell gets a lump of coal for fibbing about government job creation.

Sheldon Richman | 12.23.2011 4:00 PM

Politics

Tim Cavanaugh Talks Stimulosis with Jerry Doyle 1:30 Pacific (Almost now!)

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.7.2011 11:27 AM

Politics

GOP Message-Massager Frank Luntz, in the Wake of OWS: Don't Defend "Capitalism," Don't Rail Against "Government Spending"

Matt Welch | 12.5.2011 9:10 AM

Politics

Official Warning to Iowans: Ice Is Slippery

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.1.2011 5:02 PM

Politics

Goodnight, Solyndra: $1/2 Billion Swindle Delivered $1,015.25 Entertainment

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.29.2011 8:59 PM

Politics

"Yes, the price tag has tripled and its completion date is 13 years later. But it's still a gamble worth taking."

Matt Welch | 11.6.2011 8:21 PM

Politics

This Is What a Weatherized Economy Looks Like

Matt Welch | 10.18.2011 10:05 AM

Politics

Majority of Americans Say Government Is "Almost Always Wasteful and Inefficient"

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.17.2011 12:23 PM

Politics

Solyndra: Obama Warned Last Year, N.Y. Times Clueless Today

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.27.2011 3:47 PM

Politics

Americans Say Federal Government Wastes Over Half of Every Dollar

Emily Ekins | 9.27.2011 10:12 AM

Politics

California Democrats Also Run Out of Their Own Money

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.27.2011 1:12 AM

Politics

Wishing Will Not Make Solyndra Go Away

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.24.2011 4:55 PM

Policy

"Did you ever study writing in the English language?"

Matt Welch | 9.22.2011 12:21 PM

Policy

Reason Writers Around Town: Matt Welch at CNN.com on the Lesson of $16 Muffins

Reason Staff | 9.22.2011 8:07 AM

Politics

Radio: Cavanaugh Saws Bucks With KOGO's Chris Reed, 7:03pm Pacific

Reason Staff | 9.20.2011 9:30 PM