History

Politics

Aaron Sorkin: Not a Good Historian Either

Jesse Walker | 7.16.2012 10:30 AM

Policy

From Bootlegging to Pot Trafficking

The outlaws of Marion County, Kentucky, defy one Prohibition after another.

Mike Riggs | 7.13.2012 4:30 PM

Decentralization

All Power to the Neighborhoods

Jesse Walker | 7.10.2012 12:23 PM

Politics

The Secret History of New York's Playgrounds

Jesse Walker | 7.9.2012 11:36 PM

Politics

Gail Collins Hates the Lone Star State

Times columnist messes with Texas and loses in laugh-free, fact-challenged airdrop.

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.7.2012 1:00 PM

Politics

What Frederick Douglass Teaches Us About American Exceptionalism and the Growth of Freedom

Nick Gillespie | 7.4.2012 3:30 PM

Culture

Salute the Freedom of Assembly Today! Visit a Tavern!

Nick Gillespie | 7.4.2012 11:46 AM

Politics

Library of Congress Picks 88 Unobjectionable Books that "Shaped America"

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.1.2012 11:41 PM

Politics

How Judicial Restraint Shaped John Roberts' ObamaCare Decision

The chief justice's deferential stance saves the president's health care overhaul.

Damon Root | 6.29.2012 9:30 AM

Politics

Will John Roberts Vote to Uphold ObamaCare?

Damon Root | 6.26.2012 9:42 AM

Politics

Vampires and Cannibals in American History

Jesse Walker | 6.22.2012 11:36 AM

Policy

Public TV Execs Fall In Alabama

Jesse Walker | 6.19.2012 4:07 PM

Politics

Justice Clarence Thomas and the Original Meaning of the Commerce Clause

Damon Root | 6.19.2012 11:53 AM

Politics

Paleo Diet People Alert: Grains Blamed for the Rise of the State

Brian Doherty | 6.18.2012 1:03 PM

Politics

Free Markets = Sustainable Development

Without capitalism, true sustainability is impossible.

Ronald Bailey | 6.12.2012 4:45 PM

Politics

ObamaCare on Trial

The libertarian legal movement threatens Barack Obama's signature law.

Damon Root | 6.11.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

The Lousiest ObamaCare Defense You'll Read Today

Damon Root | 6.9.2012 10:28 AM

Politics

The Paternalists' Bible

The Other America, which helped create modern welfare, turns 50.

Thaddeus Russell | 6.8.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

Vindicating the Second Amendment: A Pioneering Gun Rights Case Comes to a Close

Damon Root | 6.2.2012 12:36 PM

Culture

Semi-Secret Societies

Brian Doherty | 6.1.2012 11:00 AM

Economics

How Timothy Leary Adds Value to an Unopened Envelope

Jesse Walker | 6.1.2012 10:52 AM

Politics

The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Pulled Was Getting a Prime-Time Special

Jesse Walker | 5.31.2012 11:22 AM

Culture

Turing Turns 100

The father of computer science, honored too late.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.28.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

The Lighter Side of Electronic Monitoring

History shows the benefits of positive reinforcement for Ankleted-Americans.

Greg Beato | 5.24.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Panic at the Jazz Club

Jesse Walker | 5.24.2012 8:52 AM

Culture

Farewell to Eugene Polley, Inventor of the Wireless Remote

Jesse Walker | 5.23.2012 10:36 AM

Politics

General Theory Explains Obama Book Catalogue, Hawaii Birth Certificate, and Cherokee Elizabeth Warren

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.19.2012 5:22 PM

Politics

How Pat Buchanan Conquered America

Reliving the 1990s in the 2012 GOP race

Brian Doherty | 5.17.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Elizabeth Warren's Cherokee History Dissolves. Will Hekawi Tribe Offer Papers?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.17.2012 1:12 PM

Policy

How Changes in Straight Marriage Paved the Way for Legal Gay Marriage

Jesse Walker | 5.17.2012 10:43 AM

Politics

Gay Marriage, Like All Marriage, Not Worth Celebrating

Beware of governments granting the "right" to enter onerous lifelong contracts.

Thaddeus Russell | 5.16.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

Why We're Entering the Age of Ron Paul

Sharif Matar | 5.15.2012 1:20 PM

Politics

Socialists Still Remember T.R.M. Howard. Why Doesn't Everybody?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.9.2012 6:59 PM

Politics

1964 Revisited: Antiwar Voters Were Right to Back LBJ After All!

Jesse Walker | 5.3.2012 9:43 AM

Culture

Worse Than Hitler

Brian Doherty | 5.2.2012 10:01 AM

Policy

Driven to Drink

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2012 10:00 AM

Politics

"The Booty of the Plundered Churches of Paris"

Jesse Walker | 5.1.2012 10:10 PM

Culture

Barney Rosset, RIP

His Grove Press made us smarter, sexier, and more free.

Nick Gillespie | 4.27.2012 12:00 PM

Politics

What's Wrong with a Few "Open-Mic Libertarian Musings" from a Federal Judge?

Damon Root | 4.26.2012 5:55 PM

Politics

Mad Enough to Lead

The insanity of politicians and the politics of insanity

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.24.2012 10:30 AM

Culture

Milk Carton Faces Tell Lies, and I Got Proof

Jesse Walker | 4.23.2012 10:43 AM

Culture

The Medicalization of Rebellion

The long, shameful history of using science to stigmatize dissent

Sheldon Richman | 4.21.2012 7:00 AM

Economics

Delta Dawn

How Sears, Roebuck & Co. midwifed the birth of the blues

Chris Kjorness | 4.19.2012 1:30 PM

Culture

Britain's Colonial Cover-Up

Jesse Walker | 4.18.2012 8:34 AM

Policy

The President's Dress

Jesse Walker | 4.17.2012 9:17 AM

Politics

In Defense of Herbert Spencer

Damon Root | 4.10.2012 11:48 AM