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Pirates

A ship's wheel on display at a museum | Pirate & Treasure Museum

Pirates

Review: A Florida Museum Brings Pirate History to Life

The St. Augustine Pirate & Treasure Museum claims to house more than 800 authentic pirate artifacts.

Eric Boehm | 3.7.2025 6:00 AM

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Television

Review: HBO's Comedic Take on Pirate Life

The pirates in Our Flag Means Death end up more interested in skirting imperial powers than in plundering.

Jason Russell | 2.23.2024 6:00 AM

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Events

Review: When Pirates Take Over Tampa

Real pirates terrorized the Gulf Coast. These modern pirates just want to have fun.

Stephanie Slade | 12.8.2023 6:00 AM

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History

How Pirates in Madagascar Spread Enlightenment Ideas

Pirate Enlightenment documents an interracial experiment in stateless self-governance.

Anthony Comegna | 6.10.2023 6:00 AM

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Reasontv

Stossel: Blackwater and Erik Prince Do Mostly GOOD

Media slam "profit-seeking" military contractors, yet evidence shows they're more efficient and even helped end piracy in Somalia.

John Stossel and Maxim Lott | 10.24.2017 4:15 PM

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Copyright

Australian Court Rejects Dallas Buyers Club Studio's Attempt at Speculative Invoicing

Says Internet users who download the film illegally can only be asked to pay the cost of a legal download.

Ed Krayewski | 8.17.2015 12:03 PM

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Culture

Ever Pirate Music? The FBI Probably Won't Hire You.

Zenon Evans | 10.16.2014 12:00 PM

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Culture

Download Data

Which movies get pirated?

Peter Suderman | 1.31.2014 7:00 AM

Culture

Google Glass User Interrogated by DHS on Suspicion of Movie Pirating

Brian Doherty | 1.22.2014 10:47 AM

Culture

November 22: A Black(beard) Day in History

J.D. Tuccille | 11.22.2013 8:33 AM

World

Pirates Kidnap Two Americans Off Nigerian Coast

No claims of responsibility yet

Reason Staff | 10.24.2013 12:40 PM

World

Alleged Pirate Kingpin Nabbed in Belgium

Caught up in sting involving fake documentary

Reason Staff | 10.14.2013 6:10 PM

World

Kremlin Adviser Recommends Dropping Greenpeace Piracy Charges

Says prosecutors taking arbitrary approach to applying law

Reason Staff | 10.11.2013 2:20 PM

World

North Korea Pirates Sieze Chinese Hostages

Guys, they're your only friends!

Reason Staff | 5.20.2013 12:00 PM

World

World Bank: On-Shore Financiers of Somali Piracy Have to be Targeted

Pirate attacks have fallen since 2011

Reason Staff | 4.12.2013 8:44 AM

Policy

Entrepreneur to Privatize Fight Against Pirates

Will offer a fleet of armed men to escort ships

Reason Staff | 1.23.2013 7:24 AM

World

Infamous Somali Pirate Calls it Quits

Number of ship hijackings has dropped

Reason Staff | 1.10.2013 5:50 PM

World

President Obama's War Report: War on Terror in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, "Various Other Locations," U.S. Forces in Central Africa, Egypt, Kosovo, on the High Seas

Worldwide war

Ed Krayewski | 12.18.2012 7:55 PM

Policy

Billionaire Captures Argentine Ship With Ghanaian Help

Claims Argentina's government owes him $1.6 billion

Reason Staff | 10.29.2012 9:16 AM

Policy

Judge Restores $222,000 Judgment in Music Downloading Case

Minnesota woman owes record companies

Reason Staff | 9.11.2012 5:00 PM

Politics

South Korea to End Media Blackout

Journalists will now be able to report on kidnapped sailors

Reason Staff | 9.7.2012 10:20 AM

Civil Liberties

Downloading Popular Movies through BitTorrent? You're Probably Being Tracked.

Being an arthouse snob, though, pays off

Reason Staff | 9.5.2012 6:08 PM

Policy

Twenty Four Kidnapped Near Togo

Pirates took the sailors after boarding an oil tanker

Reason Staff | 8.28.2012 8:20 AM

Economics

Somali Pirates Follow Classic Rules of Innovation

Even thugs recognize value in asymmetrical fights, cooperation, and even stock markets

Reason Staff | 8.21.2012 4:44 PM

World

U.S. Sentences Somali Pirate to 12 Life Terms

Man considered to be the highest-ranking pirate the U.S. has captured.

Reason Staff | 8.13.2012 10:37 PM

Politics

Navy Rescues Iranians; Jobs Data Dispute; Ron Paul, Freemason? PM Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 1.6.2012 7:52 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Pirates, Lobbyists, Carp, and Gargoyles

Jesse Walker | 9.10.2010 8:17 AM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: The Navy vs. Pirates, Rhode Island vs. Floods, Anarchists vs. Tea Partiers

Jesse Walker | 4.2.2010 8:05 AM

World

You Can Profit from the Coming Freebooting Expedition

Jesse Walker | 12.2.2009 11:25 AM

Politics

Blackbeard Economics

The surprising, and surprisingly tame, self-organization of pirates.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.21.2009 10:30 AM

World

To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest

Jesse Walker | 5.19.2009 12:24 PM

Economics

Against All Flags

Questions and answers about pirates and Somalia

Jesse Walker | 4.17.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

Anarchy! Anarchy on the High Seas!

Jesse Walker | 8.10.2007 2:38 PM

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