Property Rights

Politics

Big Blighters

How developers use "blight" as a pretext to get the land they covet

Jacob Sullum | 12.9.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Man Demands One Breast Implant

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.7.2009 3:01 PM

Civil Liberties

New York Court Puts A Stop to Columbia University's Eminent Domain Abuse

Damon Root | 12.4.2009 8:43 AM

Politics

Property Rights at the Supreme Court

Damon Root | 12.2.2009 8:30 AM

Civil Liberties

"The majority is much too deferential to the self-serving determination by Empire State Development Corporation"

Damon Root | 11.24.2009 1:41 PM

Civil Liberties

"This is not about some great public use"

Damon Root | 11.23.2009 2:16 PM

Politics

New York's Shameful Eminent Domain Abuse

Damon Root | 11.16.2009 12:02 PM

Politics

New London's 'Carefully Considered' Plan: How's That Working Out?

Jacob Sullum | 11.9.2009 4:24 PM

Civil Liberties

Bruce Ratner Finally Admits It: "This isn't a public project"

Damon Root | 11.9.2009 1:28 PM

Civil Liberties

The Specter of Condemnation is Haunting New York

Damon Root | 10.28.2009 2:49 PM

Politics

Are Property Rights Enough?

Should libertarians care about cultural values? A reason debate.

Kerry Howley, Todd Seavey, and Daniel McCarthy | 10.20.2009 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Will New York's High Court Stand Up Against Eminent Domain Abuse?

Damon Root | 10.15.2009 10:12 AM

Civil Liberties

Private Developers Have No Right to My Home

It's time for New York's high court to protect homeowners.

Daniel Goldstein | 10.13.2009 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Wall Street Journal on Eminent Domain Abuse in Brooklyn

Damon Root | 10.13.2009 8:32 AM

Civil Liberties

Our Enemy, The State of New York

Damon Root | 10.9.2009 12:21 PM

Politics

When Public Power Is Used for Private Gain

It's time for New York's highest court to say no to eminent domain abuse

Damon Root | 10.8.2009 4:30 PM

Politics

From Guns to Butter

How a Second Amendment case can help restore economic liberty

Jacob Sullum | 10.7.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Forfeiture Follies in Iowa

Jacob Sullum | 9.17.2009 12:01 PM

Policy

Police Also Plan to Stab People and Take Their Wallets to Highlight the Risk of Mugging

Jacob Sullum | 8.27.2009 1:09 PM

Politics

Shepard Fairey Makes Irony Feel New Again

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.16.2009 5:54 PM

Civil Liberties

Just Compensation?

Testing the Takings Clause

Radley Balko | 8.3.2009 10:00 PM

Policy

Would a Legal Organ Market Exploit the Poor?

Matt Welch | 7.28.2009 11:26 AM

Politics

The Decline of American Property Rights

Damon Root | 7.7.2009 9:42 AM

Policy

Suze Orman's Personal Finance Advice: Quit Your Job

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.3.2009 4:31 PM

Civil Liberties

Even in Death, Elvis Beats Jacko Like a Drum

Matt Welch | 7.1.2009 9:10 AM

Politics

Sotomayor on Takings

Radley Balko | 5.26.2009 1:53 PM

Politics

Sold Down the River

How Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour sabotaged eminent domain reform

Damon Root | 5.11.2009 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

D.C. Ticketing Homeowners for Parking in Their Own Driveways

Radley Balko | 4.29.2009 7:01 PM

Civil Liberties

"Eminent Domain Through the Back Door"

Standing up for property rights and civil rights in Montgomery, Alabama

David T. Beito | 4.28.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

Criticism of Politicians Is Not Defamation, Even If You Use the D-Word

Jacob Sullum | 3.30.2009 2:51 PM

Politics

Restoring the Privileges or Immunities Clause

Why the 14th Amendment matters in the fight for a free society

Damon Root | 2.23.2009 3:15 PM

Politics

There Goes the Neighborhood

Exposing Columbia University's eminent domain abuse

Damon Root | 2.9.2009 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

He Tried Using the Fourth, But It Was Full of Holes

Radley Balko | 1.14.2009 12:07 AM

Politics

No Search, No Service

Jacob Sullum | 1.9.2009 3:51 PM

Civil Liberties

SLAPP Silly

Jacob Sullum | 12.10.2008 5:51 PM

Civil Liberties

Mohels Aren't Paid Very Well, But They Get To Keep the Tips!

Radley Balko | 11.24.2008 11:05 AM

Policy

A Potential Solution to Commons Tragedies in West Coast Fisheries

Brian Doherty | 11.11.2008 3:21 PM

Civil Liberties

Slipped a Mickey?

One man's light pollution is another man's historic landmark

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.17.2008 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Garden Gnome Politics

The age-old battle over landscape expression

Greg Beato | 10.7.2008 7:00 AM

Politics

Zoning Toward Oblivion

How the Supreme Court's decision in Euclid v. Ambler shaped modern America

Damon Root | 9.26.2008 7:00 AM

Policy

Honey, If We Pay You, I Can't Smoke (and Neither Can You)

Jacob Sullum | 9.12.2008 5:14 PM

Civil Liberties

China's Free Speech Sting

Jacob Sullum | 8.22.2008 12:06 PM

Policy

Bernie Parks Encourages Smoking

Jacob Sullum | 8.13.2008 3:36 PM

Politics

Monument to Aesthetic Imperialism

Jacob Sullum | 8.11.2008 12:06 PM

Civil Liberties

Show Us the Blight

Jacob Sullum | 8.7.2008 5:31 PM

Policy

Appeals Court Rules in Rack 'n' Roll Pool Hall Case

Radley Balko | 7.12.2008 2:35 PM

Policy

Going to the Dogs

Jacob Sullum | 7.11.2008 11:29 AM

Politics

Swift SLAPP

Jacob Sullum | 7.9.2008 5:35 PM