Media Criticism

Politics

20 Years After Ruby Ridge, Newspapers and Hatewatch Groups Can't Quite Bring Themselves to Fully Describe the Government Screw-Up

Lucy Steigerwald | 8.22.2012 12:45 PM

Politics

No, Jonathan Chait, I Never Hinted That Having a Swiss Bank Account Amounts to 'heroic rebellion'

Matt Welch | 8.22.2012 9:16 AM

Civil Liberties

The Backlash Against Pussy Riot As Poster-Women for Sexy Free Speech Has Some Good Points, But Not Many

Lucy Steigerwald | 8.21.2012 2:30 PM

Politics

The Nation: Condoleezza Rice Is Wrong Kind of Female to Break Gender Barrier at Augusta National

Matt Welch | 8.21.2012 7:52 AM

War on Drugs

Bill Maher Finally Notices That Obama's Drug Policies Are Awful

Lucy Steigerwald | 8.15.2012 3:15 PM

Civil Liberties

New York Post Outraged That Sex Offenders Accepted at City Homeless Shelters With Children

Lucy Steigerwald | 8.13.2012 5:02 PM

Politics

Wherein The New York Times Decides Catholic Bishops Are Not Partisan Because It's Time to Tear Down Paul Ryan

The Times uses the word of Catholic bishops to target Paul Ryan after dismissing earlier concerns by bishops as partisan

Ed Krayewski | 8.11.2012 4:37 PM

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