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Gamers Help Fight AIDS

Online players solve a tough problem that had scientists stumped for a decade.

Peter Suderman | 11.16.2011 10:30 AM

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Fighting the Power

Peter Suderman | 11.4.2011 4:00 PM

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Creative Construction

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.4.2011 3:59 PM

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Honest Bill

Jacob Sullum | 11.4.2011 3:58 PM

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The Facebook Friend in the Plastic Bubble

Are we filtering ourselves to death?

Jesse Walker | 11.4.2011 3:29 PM

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No Justice for Jesse Ventura

Damon Root | 11.4.2011 11:13 AM

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TMI Nation

How to protect your reputation in the digital age

Greg Beato | 11.1.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

Reason.tv: Former MTV VJ and Radio Host Kennedy on Medical Marijuana, The Politics of Alt Rock, and How She Went From Conservative to Libertarian

Tim Cavanaugh and Zach Weissmueller | 10.25.2011 1:06 PM

Culture

Ron Swanson vs. the State

The politics of Parks and Recreation

John Payne | 10.21.2011 1:30 PM

Politics

Conrad Murray Open Thread

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.14.2011 7:16 PM

Politics

Dancing With Shakira in the White House

Shikha Dalmia | 10.8.2011 11:30 AM

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Did China Kill Super Girl Over Voting? Does It Matter?

Tim Cavanaugh | 9.29.2011 5:10 PM

Policy

Reason.tv: Prohibition Vogue-Why We're Still Talking About "The Noble Experiment"

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 9.29.2011 3:00 PM

Economics

Pimp Your Ride

Why own what you can rent? And why not rent out what you own?

Greg Beato | 9.16.2011 4:30 PM

Civil Liberties

A Jewish Case for Mel Gibson

If Roman Polanski and Sean Penn can find work in Hollywood, why not Mel?

David Harsanyi | 9.14.2011 10:30 AM

Culture

Are We Not Supergods?

Comic book writer Grant Morrison's psychedelic history of the medium and its heroes

Todd Seavey | 9.9.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

Remembering 9/11: Memorializing Ground Zero, Bert and Osama, Bruce Springsteen Falls Flat

Damon Root | 9.8.2011 9:00 AM

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

Reason Staff | 9.2.2011 10:52 AM

Politics

"What do you think of interracial marriage? It would be hard, offhand, to think of a question less relevant to libertarianism"

Matt Welch | 8.30.2011 2:04 PM

Politics

Why Art Failed Us After 9/11

Trying to make sense of senselessness

Nick Gillespie | 8.1.2011 12:00 PM

Culture

The Writing Is on the Wall

Should we mourn the death of cursive handwriting?

Greg Beato | 7.28.2011 4:30 PM

Economics

What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us

Setting the historical record straight

John Stossel | 7.28.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Bollywood vs. Jihad

Which is the bigger threat to fundamentalist Islam: the Pentagon or Mumbai?

Shikha Dalmia | 7.27.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Spray Paint the Walls

Graffiti, art, and advertising

Greg Beato | 7.26.2011 7:00 AM

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

Culture

Briefly Noted: Spook Show

Damon Root | 7.6.2011 11:01 AM

Culture

Happy Bloomsday

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.16.2011 5:04 PM

Politics

That '80s Show

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

Jesse Walker | 6.10.2011 4:30 PM

Culture

Reason.tv: How Cultural Innovation Happens

Q and A with Anthropologist Grant McCracken

Jim Epstein and Nick Gillespie | 6.7.2011 11:59 AM

Culture

Run This Industry Tonight

Brian Doherty | 6.1.2011 3:35 PM

Economics

Dollar Store Nation

What the success of the dollar store says about the American economy

Greg Beato | 5.26.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Can You Copyright a Tattoo?

Damon Root | 5.25.2011 12:42 PM

Politics

Redevelopment Agency Gives Billionaire $52 Million for Art Project

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.11.2011 10:47 PM

Policy

Spray Paint the Walls

Does graffiti count as art?

Greg Beato | 4.29.2011 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

James O'Keefe: Really Not Your Average Journalist

Matt Welch | 4.19.2011 10:23 AM

Politics

Fort Sumter and the Impending Crisis: Reason Writers on the Civil War

Reason Staff | 4.12.2011 9:20 AM

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Conservatainment

The perennial right-wing plot to seize Hollywood from liberals

Peter Suderman | 4.11.2011 4:30 PM

Economics

Survivalism and the Market

Damon Root | 4.11.2011 3:04 PM

Culture

The Spook Racket

Magicians Todd Robbins and Teller take on the supposedly supernatural in their bloody off-Broadway sensation Play Dead

Damon Root | 4.5.2011 4:30 PM

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But Is It Art?

A new study challenges the merits of modern art

A. Barton Hinkle | 4.5.2011 10:30 AM

Culture

Sorry, Charley

Was John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley a fraud?

Bill Steigerwald | 4.4.2011 12:00 PM

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Glamorous Former Mrs. Fortensky and One-Time Maker of Bad Movies Liz Taylor Dies; Shatner Lives on!

Nick Gillespie | 3.23.2011 5:45 PM

Economics

Malls of a Certain Age

The shopping mall: a look back

Greg Beato | 3.16.2011 12:00 PM

Culture

Reality Bites

Debunking the myth of the lazy video gamer

Greg Beato | 2.24.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Reason Writers on Studio 360: Matt Welch Discusses How Dallas Affected the Cold War

Reason Staff | 2.18.2011 9:47 AM

Politics

"When his music changed, Wayne Lo changed, and in time two people lay dead"

Damon Root | 1.10.2011 3:24 PM

Culture

Season of the Witch

Nicolas Cage, cursed again.

Kurt Loder | 1.7.2011 10:30 AM

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Briefly Noted Books, Movies, Television, and More

Privacy chic, outlaw bikers, William Gibson's Zero History, an unwitting libertarian documentary, and TV Carnage

Reason Staff | 12.28.2010 12:00 PM