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Goodbye to Gore Vidal, America's Biographer and Champion

Remembering one of my favorite writers

Brian Doherty | 8.1.2012 3:09 PM

Politics

Ice-T: From "Cop Killer" to Second Amendment Hero

Damon Root | 7.25.2012 11:00 AM

Culture

Don't Blame Pop Culture for the Batman Shootings

Damon Root | 7.23.2012 8:53 AM

Politics

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