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Politics

Military Expert Herman Cain Would Like to Be Secretary of Defense

Mike Riggs | 12.15.2011 1:15 PM

Policy

Assassinations, Spying and The Constitution: ACLU President Susan Herman Talks Big Government Taking Liberties

Reason Staff | 12.12.2011 3:10 PM

Policy

Craig Shirley: How Pearl Harbor - and December 1941 - Made America a Global Power

Reason Staff | 12.7.2011 8:00 AM

Politics

Obama Gets His Teddy On

Matt Welch | 12.6.2011 6:32 PM

Politics

"Shut Up. You Don't Get a Lawyer!": The Defense Authorization Act Guts Civil Liberties

Reason Staff | 12.5.2011 12:00 AM

Policy

Matt Welch Talks Treament of OWS Protesters and Grades the TSA on Freedom Watch

Reason Staff | 11.23.2011 12:00 AM

Policy

"Republicans Are Endangering National Security." By Which We Mean Uncontrolled Defense Spending.

Nick Gillespie | 11.22.2011 4:45 PM

Politics

Dems and Reps Agree: Let's Spend Tons More on Defense!

Nick Gillespie | 11.18.2011 4:15 PM

Policy

Shipwrecks, Treasure and Cannon Fire: The True Story of an American Privateer

Reason Staff | 11.14.2011 12:00 AM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Another GOP Congressman Calls for Eric Holder to Resign, Jerry Brown Ready to Overhaul Public Pensions, Washington Cops Raid Vet's Home Over Two Pot Plants

Mike Riggs | 10.27.2011 8:45 AM

Politics

Liberating Libya

Presidential presumption and congressional cowardice lift the limits on military intervention.

Jacob Sullum | 8.24.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Sorry Neocons, Adam Smith Was Not One of You

Shikha Dalmia | 8.8.2011 7:43 AM

Policy

The Debt Deal's Defense Cuts: A Win for Libertarians?

Peter Suderman | 8.1.2011 3:51 PM

Politics

Are Republicans Ready to Acknowledge the Difference Between Military Spending and Defense Spending?

Jacob Sullum | 6.27.2011 3:44 PM

Politics

All The President's Wars: How Foreign Policy Became One Man's Prerogative

Reason Staff | 6.22.2011 12:00 AM

Politics

Libya: NATO Takes Lead, Americans Do 65% of Work

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.26.2011 11:38 AM

Politics

'Core Constitutional Roles' Like Job Training, Farm Subsidies, and Health Insurance

Jacob Sullum | 4.5.2011 4:55 PM

Policy

Obama's War That Isn't a War

Reason Staff | 3.29.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

Remy: Why They Fought

Reason Staff | 3.24.2011 8:00 AM

Politics

No-Fly Supporters "don't trust the people, but they do trust government"

Matt Welch | 3.17.2011 10:08 AM

Policy

Glenn Reynolds Interviews Donald Rumsfeld

Nick Gillespie | 3.3.2011 11:00 AM

Politics

Felonizing Whistleblowers

Matt Welch | 2.17.2011 10:07 AM

Politics

No Military Immunity

America's bloated defense budget is ripe for cutting.

Jacob Sullum | 2.2.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

That Didn't Take Long

Radley Balko | 1.7.2011 1:18 PM

Politics

Is Julian Assange a Journalist?

For First Amendment purposes, it doesn't matter.

Jacob Sullum | 12.22.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Is Wikileaks a Force For Good? Four Experts on Our Wiki-Future

Reason Staff | 12.13.2010 12:00 AM

Politics

Two Wars and We Don't Feel a Draft

The benefits of a volunteer military

Steve Chapman | 10.18.2010 7:00 AM

Politics

Warfare Kings and the Tea Party

Radley Balko | 10.4.2010 11:14 PM

Politics

Gary Johnson's Differentiation

Matt Welch | 6.30.2010 6:04 PM

Politics

The Rise of America's Surveillance State: Q&A with "Watchers" author Shane Harris

Reason Staff | 6.3.2010 11:00 AM

Policy

Eminent Domaining the Canadian Border

Matt Welch | 5.17.2010 10:19 AM

Politics

Why Not Cut Military Spending?

Radley Balko | 2.8.2010 11:11 AM

Politics

Federal Spending and GDP: Uh-oh, Here We Go

Matt Welch | 2.2.2010 3:07 PM

Politics

"The Industry" Leaves Southern California

Matt Welch | 1.8.2010 9:10 AM

Politics

Does Newt Gingrich Speak for Either Republicans or Tea Partiers?

Matt Welch | 1.6.2010 4:53 AM

Policy

"Every Day is a Bonus": Veterans Day in Washington, D.C., November 2009

Reason Staff | 11.11.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

Remembering the 9/11 Attacks 3

Matt Welch | 9.11.2009 9:59 AM

Politics

Rationalizing Torture

When it comes to harsh interrogation methods, the ends do not justify the means

Steve Chapman | 8.27.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Ted Kaczynski Was an Optimist

Bill Flanigen | 7.28.2009 12:18 PM

Politics

F-22: A Saga of the Military-Industrial Complex's Blood and Guts

Brian Doherty | 7.10.2009 9:50 AM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia Debates Fellow Forbes Columnist Melik Kaylan Over Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Reason Staff | 6.11.2009 2:58 PM

Politics

Obama's Betrayal on Don't Ask Don't Tell

The president's forgotten civil rights promise.

Shikha Dalmia | 6.5.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

Obama Speaks. Cheney Speaks. It's All Good.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.21.2009 11:43 AM

Politics

Families of the Fallen Favor Transparency

Matt Welch | 4.29.2009 2:56 PM

Politics

ATTENTION AMERICA!!!! …The WHO "Pandemic Control Room" Is A Creation Of The Illuminati Elite For The Final "End-Game"… (or WHO Are You? WH-WHO?)

Jeff Winkler | 4.28.2009 11:16 AM

Policy

Let Lithuania Replace America

Jesse Walker | 3.27.2009 12:40 PM

Politics

It's the Bomb That Will Bring Us Together

Michael Moynihan | 2.19.2009 6:43 PM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Nick Gillespie on George W. Bush as a Big-Government Disaster

Reason Staff | 1.26.2009 3:00 PM

National Defense

The All-Argentina Issue is Here