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Half-Assed Media Speculation About the Batman Shooter

News outlets are rushing to speculative judgment about the accused Batman murderer

Matt Welch | 7.20.2012 10:33 AM

Culture

Turning Comic Books Into Art

The world of high art celebrates pioneering comics creator Daniel Clowes.

Greg Beato | 7.19.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Mitt Romney: The Newest Batman Villain?

Calvin Thompson | 7.18.2012 3:15 PM

Politics

5 Other Fake Indians Besides Elizabeth Warren

The Massachusetts Democrat is hardly alone in passing herself off as having Indian blood.

Nick Gillespie | 7.9.2012 1:45 PM

Culture

Sociopath TV

Lucy Steigerwald | 7.5.2012 9:00 AM

Politics

Library of Congress Picks 88 Unobjectionable Books that "Shaped America"

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.1.2012 11:41 PM

Politics

William Shatner Pantsed by TSA

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.29.2012 4:53 PM

Culture

The Freaky Fetishes of Golden Age Hollywood

A tolerant new tell-all from Tinseltown's sexual fixer

Nick Gillespie | 6.29.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

The Internet vs. the NEA

Is Kickstarter a secret right-wing plot to undermine the National Endowment for the Arts?

Greg Beato | 6.28.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

How TV's 'Dallas' Won the Cold War

Nick Gillespie, Meredith Bragg, and Matt Welch | 6.15.2012 3:00 PM

Policy

Heston, Underappreciated Again

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.12.2012 3:17 PM

Culture

Ray Bradbury: Enemy of the State

Remembering the late science fiction writer

Charles Johnson | 6.8.2012 6:00 PM

Culture

Semi-Secret Societies

Brian Doherty | 6.1.2012 11:00 AM

Culture

Skyscrapers Go Lego

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.1.2012 11:00 AM

Policy

Reason.tv: Joel Stein on His "Stupid Quest for Masculinity"

Tim Cavanaugh and Zach Weissmueller | 5.22.2012 12:13 PM

Culture

Robin Gibb, R.I.P.

Brian Doherty | 5.21.2012 2:01 PM

Culture

The Avengers

Gods and monsters

Kurt Loder | 5.4.2012 9:00 AM

Culture

Taft for President!

Peter Suderman | 5.2.2012 10:05 AM

Culture

Barney Rosset, RIP

His Grove Press made us smarter, sexier, and more free.

Nick Gillespie | 4.27.2012 12:00 PM

Policy

The Cure for the Common Hangover

A Las Vegas doctor treats the sick and needy

Greg Beato | 4.26.2012 4:30 PM

Culture

Politics and Pop

Reason Staff | 4.22.2012 10:19 AM

Politics

Christie/Springsteen Snoozegate Even Dumber than Obama Dog-Eating Story

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.21.2012 3:20 PM

Politics

On the Set of Atlas Shrugged Part II

Production is now underway on the second installment of the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand's famous novel.

Brian Doherty | 4.20.2012 4:30 PM

Economics

Delta Dawn

How Sears, Roebuck & Co. midwifed the birth of the blues

Chris Kjorness | 4.19.2012 1:30 PM

Culture

Is The Hunger Games Libertarian?

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.3.2012 8:20 PM

Culture

Zombiepocalypse Now

Lucy Steigerwald | 4.2.2012 10:00 AM

Culture

Political Intelligence

Peter Suderman | 4.2.2012 9:55 AM

Culture

Recommendation: Read Mark Dery, Soar With Winners

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.1.2012 9:43 PM

Economics

Better Off Dead

The cheap, exciting afterlife of modern mortal remains

Greg Beato | 3.28.2012 1:30 PM

Politics

Rush Limbaugh vs. Rage Against the Machine

Damon Root | 3.15.2012 10:18 AM

Civil Liberties

Jack Kerouac Wrote Marlon Brando a Letter, or Maybe He Just Typed It

Tim Cavanaugh | 3.14.2012 4:51 PM

Politics

Atheism Is a Religion

Or at least it requires a God for you not to believe in.

Kennedy | 3.10.2012 10:00 AM

Politics

His Picture Isn't on the Cover, But Ron Paul Makes the New Rolling Stone Twice

Brian Doherty | 3.7.2012 12:43 AM

Politics

Relax, Liberal Metalheads. Dave Mustaine Did Not "Endorse" Rick Santorum

Damon Root | 2.16.2012 6:02 PM

Culture

Behind the Music

Mike Riggs | 2.6.2012 11:19 AM

Culture

Death of the Auteur: Is Highbrow Movie Criticism Democracy's Lifeblood?

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.2.2012 9:15 PM

Economics

Steve Jobs, the Inhumane Humanist

The founder of Apple may have been a narcissistic jerk, but his humanity was revealed by the liberating objects he made.

Mike Godwin | 1.10.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

Ron Paul Cheers and Jeers; SOPA Protest; Back to the Moon; Death of Film (Continued) and More: PM Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.29.2011 6:04 PM

Policy

Terror TV

Homeland shows the messier side of the security bureaucracy.

Peter Suderman | 12.29.2011 8:30 AM

Civil Liberties

A Different Kind of Playwright-President Is Dead: Welcome to Hell, Kim Jong-Il!

Matt Welch | 12.19.2011 5:12 AM

Culture

The Best of 2011

Reason writers on books, movies, music, & more

Reason Staff | 12.14.2011 12:00 PM

Culture

Got a Tattoo? Say Thanks to the Electric Tattoo Machine, Patented 120 Years Ago Today

Damon Root | 12.8.2011 10:40 AM

Economics

The Economics of Heavy Metal

Damon Root | 12.6.2011 11:32 AM

Culture

Superheroes 'R' Us

We're all supergods now.

Todd Seavey | 11.25.2011 12:00 PM

Policy

A World Where Outlaw Bikers Are Bad, But Government Agents Are Even Worse

Damon Root | 11.22.2011 11:08 AM

Politics

Two Decades of Peace, Love, and Marijuana

Every August since 1991, Seattle Hempfest has shown what the world will be like when pot is legal.

Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch | 11.21.2011 12:00 PM

Culture

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

Culture

Fighting the Power

Peter Suderman | 11.4.2011 4:00 PM