History

Politics

Justice for All

The new Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial honors King's universal commitment to justice.

Kmele Foster | 10.14.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

"The 14th Amendment…was a promise to the people of this country of limited government and respect for individual rights."

Damon Root | 10.13.2011 4:13 PM

Politics

A History Lesson from Clarence Thomas

Damon Root | 10.10.2011 6:33 PM

Policy

What Boardwalk Empire & Ken Burns' New Prohibition Doc Mean for the War on Drugs

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 10.1.2011 5:00 PM

Economics

"Herbert Hoover: Father of the New Deal"

Damon Root | 9.30.2011 4:26 PM

Policy

The Butter Battle

Bootlegging margarine.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 9.28.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Empire of the Son

The president's parents were supporters, not opponents, of American hegemony.

Thaddeus Russell | 9.26.2011 7:00 AM

Economics

Regime Uncertainty and the Great Depression

Damon Root | 9.23.2011 3:58 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Cato's David Boaz on What America Can (and Shouldn't) Learn From the French Revolution

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 9.23.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

Zoning Bigots

A Los Angeles County land use war shows the dark history and darker future of urban planning.

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.21.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Lochner Isn't a Dirty Word

Correcting the cartoonish vilification of a libertarian Supreme Court decision

Damon Root | 9.14.2011 12:00 PM

Obituaries

Carl Oglesby, RIP

Jesse Walker | 9.14.2011 9:10 AM

Politics

The Limits of the Bully Pulpit

Obama follows in Nixon's footsteps.

Steve Chapman | 9.12.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Talkin' 'Bout History, Irony, Politics, and Paranoia

Jesse Walker | 9.8.2011 10:21 AM

Culture

Reason Writers Around Town: Brian Doherty on the Art of Curating Comics

Reason Staff | 9.2.2011 10:52 AM

Culture

Martin Luther King's Dream Deferred Again, This Time by a Typo Set in Stone.

Nick Gillespie | 9.2.2011 9:05 AM

Politics

Michael Lind: Libertarians "Apologize for Autocracy" and "Side with the Confederacy"

Damon Root | 8.31.2011 1:50 PM

Politics

Clarence Thomas, Civil Rights, and the Second Amendment

Damon Root | 8.25.2011 7:25 PM

Politics

Russia's Struggling Democracy

Marking the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the USSR

Cathy Young | 8.25.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Eric Hobsbawm's Faith-Based Marxism

Damon Root | 8.22.2011 5:18 PM

Politics

Nixon's Big Government Legacy

Remembering Richard Nixon's wage and price controls

Gene Healy | 8.16.2011 1:30 PM

Policy

When the Black Panthers Challenged Gun Control

Damon Root | 8.15.2011 2:59 PM

Civil Liberties

City to Homeowner: Don't Remove Your Chain Link Fence, or Else

Matt Welch | 8.8.2011 10:25 AM

Economics

What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us

Setting the historical record straight

John Stossel | 7.28.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Now We See the Conflict Inherent in the System

Damon Root | 7.26.2011 11:09 AM

Politics

When Ron Paul Met Bill Buckley

Jesse Walker | 7.26.2011 10:10 AM

Politics

Death to the Living Constitution

Can "progressive originalism" become the Next Big Thing on the legal left?

Damon Root | 7.21.2011 4:30 PM

Economics

The Eternal Fallout Shelter

We're still living in the wake left by Cold War civil defense hysteria.

Greg Beato | 7.20.2011 10:30 AM

Civil Liberties

Underground Music in the Age of Jim Crow

Damon Root | 7.19.2011 2:51 PM

Politics

Obama Even Disappoints Frederick Douglass: Ranks Preserving Union above Ending Slavery

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.17.2011 9:34 PM

Economics

Temptations of Empire

Two new studies reveal the inherent instability of imperialism.

John Payne | 7.15.2011 12:00 PM

Culture

Betty Ford Dances with the Sword of Liberation

Jesse Walker | 7.12.2011 10:54 AM

Politics

How George W. Bush Fulfilled FDR's Legacy

Jesse Walker | 7.1.2011 11:05 AM

Politics

Document Dump of the Day: The Yippie Files

Jesse Walker | 6.28.2011 4:24 PM

Policy

All in the Gay Family

Same-sex marriage existed long before it was legalized.

Jesse Walker | 6.27.2011 10:30 AM

Economics

Michael Barone on Nostalgianomics

Matt Welch | 6.23.2011 9:30 AM

Politics

Happy Birthday, Magna Carta

Damon Root | 6.15.2011 4:11 PM

Policy

Was Nixon a Drug Warrior or a Reformer?

Jacob Sullum | 6.14.2011 1:35 PM

Politics

That '80s Show

Did Michael Jordan and Michael J. Fox invent modern individualism?

Jesse Walker | 6.10.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football

Q and A with John J. Miller

Nick Gillespie and Joshua Swain | 6.9.2011 11:45 AM

Politics

National Review's Joel Miller: "Palin basically got the whole story wrong"

Matt Welch | 6.7.2011 11:18 AM

Politics

FDR Solicitor General Lied to Supreme Court about Japanese Internment

Damon Root | 5.31.2011 2:39 PM

Politics

Notes from the Underground

The rise of the alternative media is a story that goes beyond the New Left.

Jesse Walker | 5.23.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

William Donald Schaefer's Real Legacy

Jesse Walker | 5.17.2011 10:33 AM