Media Criticism

Politics

CNN Mislabels Metalcore Band as White Supremacist

Hatebreed wants an apology from CNN for being included in a segment about hatecore and the Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting

Reason Staff | 8.9.2012 10:17 AM

Politics

News Junkie Obama Rejects "false balance" of Media Coverage

Matt Welch | 8.9.2012 9:47 AM

Civil Liberties

Playing SWAT On a Drug Raid Gives Texas Blogger Self Esteem Boost

Lucy Steigerwald | 8.7.2012 7:00 PM

Politics

Liberals Discover Their Inner Dick Cheney

Four years later, they have decided he was right all along.

A. Barton Hinkle | 8.1.2012 10:30 AM

Politics

The Atlantic's Andrew Cohen Wonders Why We Can't Ruin the Second Amendment Like We Ruined The Other Nine

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.26.2012 7:15 PM

Culture

Whitewashing John Steinbeck

Why partisan politics and virulent racism were cut from the celebrated "non-fiction" road book Travels With Charley

Bill Steigerwald | 7.25.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Libertarian Gary Johnson: In the Debates, Maybe?

Brian Doherty | 7.23.2012 5:40 PM

Politics

The Newsroom's Latest Blather: Kochtopus! Citizens United! We're All Pawns!

Scott Shackford | 7.23.2012 2:06 PM

Politics

Non-Liberals Live Amongst Liberals, Deceptively Wearing Their Guises: Noted with Alarm

Brian Doherty | 7.19.2012 3:16 PM

Politics

No Innocent Pakistanis Killed by Drones in 2012 Still Untrustworthy Summation of Incomplete Data

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.17.2012 10:05 PM

Culture

Political Animals: The Confusing Adventures of Un-Hillary Non-Clinton

This fictional political miniseries perhaps draws a little too much from the real world.

Scott Shackford | 7.15.2012 1:00 PM

Politics

Inflationese: Pick Up a New Language Today!

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.14.2012 9:45 PM

Culture

Ron Paul: The War Against His Delegates, and Against His Importance

Brian Doherty | 7.12.2012 10:25 PM

Politics

Rejoice, Californians! The High-Speed Rail Vote Shows the System Working!

Scott Shackford | 7.12.2012 9:24 PM

Politics

Vice Writer Is Okay With the New Generation of Libertarians, Possibly Because His Friends Are Libertarian

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.12.2012 5:25 PM

Politics

Drafting Millions, What Wouldn't it Solve? Asks New York Times Op-Ed

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.11.2012 11:05 AM

Policy

Your Terrible Anti-Marijuana Editorial of the Day is Somehow in Favor of Decriminalization

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.10.2012 1:55 PM

Politics

SCOTUS ObamaCare Ruling Still Screwing Up News Schedule

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.29.2012 10:59 AM

Politics

Obamacarians' Pregame Rationalizations: Doesn't Matter; Good for O; All Scalia's Fault, and More!

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.27.2012 6:07 PM

Culture

Walter Cronkite wasn't the Most Trusted Man in America? Q&A with author Joseph Campbell

Nick Gillespie and Tracy Oppenheimer | 6.26.2012 11:34 AM

Culture

The Newsroom: Finally, a Show About Elitist American Nostalgia!

Aaron Sorkin wants Daddy Newsman to explain to all those stupid Americans what's right and wrong.

Scott Shackford | 6.25.2012 5:45 PM

Culture

Scott Shackford on Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom

Reason Staff | 6.25.2012 5:45 PM

Policy

Take the Grammartarian Grammar Test at WSJ

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.24.2012 2:51 PM

Politics

Study Complains About Use of "Job Killers" Term to Describe Government Policies

Ed Krayewski | 6.18.2012 11:12 AM

Politics

Top 5 Pieces of Good News in the Bad News

Tired of bad news? Maybe you're just taking it the wrong way.

Ed Krayewski | 6.16.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

Heston, Underappreciated Again

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.12.2012 3:17 PM

Politics

New Yorker's John Cassidy Can't Count, Digs In Heels On Precious Continental Spellings

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.5.2012 4:38 PM

Politics

Establishment Media Now Bored By Wisconsin

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.5.2012 1:41 PM

Politics

Wherein the New York Times Describes President Obama's Role as Drone War Kill List Decider-in-Chief

Ed Krayewski | 5.29.2012 2:58 PM

Politics

Did MSNBC's Chris Hayes Say Something Terrible When He Said He Was Not Comfortable Calling Fallen Soldiers "Heroes"?

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.29.2012 12:20 PM

Politics

5 Classic Teen Sex-and-Drug Freakouts: Rainbow Parties, Butt-Chugging, And So Much More (By Which We Mean Less)

Nick Gillespie | 5.27.2012 8:00 AM

Politics

Charles Krauthammer Goes "Hard Left" and Rants Against Domestic Drones: Or, Killing People Abroad is Okay, But Spying at Home is Wrong

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.16.2012 10:30 PM

Politics

Sullivan Goes Gay Collectivist with Obama Love

Scott Shackford | 5.15.2012 2:31 PM

Politics

Maricopa County SWAT Team Thrills Awful Fox News Reporter

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.8.2012 7:45 PM

Politics

Today's Worst Partisan Political Columnist Blindness, Today!

Brian Doherty | 5.1.2012 10:35 PM

Culture

The White House Press Correspondents' Dinner Is About as Bad as You Think, Only a Little Bit Worse and a Little Bit More Fun

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.29.2012 3:30 PM

Politics

April 19: A Day to Write Lazy Certainties About Waco and Oklahoma City

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.19.2012 7:37 PM

Politics

In Defense of Julian Assange and Russia Today

Brian Doherty | 4.19.2012 4:41 PM

Policy

How Long Will Nicholas Kristof Continue to Profit From Sex Trafficking?

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2012 1:31 PM

Policy

San Francisco Bay Guardian Columnist Sad Oaksterdam Raid Turning People Off of Big Government

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.9.2012 7:44 PM

Politics

Was Obama's SCOTUS Attack Good Politics? (Special Dumbth Edition)

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.8.2012 5:59 PM

Culture

Historian Writing in Newsweek Forgets He Was Talking About Actual Titanic, Not Metaphor for Financial Collapse

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.5.2012 10:00 PM

Culture

Hungarian President Resigns Over…Plagiarism?

Matt Welch | 4.2.2012 12:16 PM

Culture

Recommendation: Read Mark Dery, Soar With Winners

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.1.2012 9:43 PM

Policy

Washington State Reporter Wears Bulletproof Vest, Thinks SWAT Narcotics Raid is Totally Awesome

Lucy Steigerwald | 3.30.2012 1:30 PM

Culture

Bully and Wrath of the Titans

Kidville.

Kurt Loder | 3.29.2012 6:00 PM

Policy

Was Nicholas Kristof's Story About an Underage Prostitute Peddled on Backpage.com 'Concocted'?

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2012 7:03 PM

Politics

Obama's Daughter Vacations in Mexico, But Let's Not Discuss It. In Fact, Let's Not Even Ever Have Discussed It

Brian Doherty | 3.19.2012 11:37 PM