Racism

Policy

Obama Signs Federal Hate Crime Law

Jacob Sullum | 10.28.2009 3:05 PM

Politics

Rater Hater

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.16.2009 11:48 AM

Civil Liberties

Wait. Maybe Rush Limbaugh Doesn't Like James Earl Ray.

Michael Moynihan | 10.15.2009 5:04 PM

Politics

Could Politically Incorrect Speakers Be Charged With Aiding and Abetting Hate Crimes?

Jacob Sullum | 10.15.2009 1:54 PM

Politics

Bigot Bonus

Under a new federal law, the wrong beliefs can trigger a second trial and extra prison time.

Jacob Sullum | 10.14.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Pelosi vs. the ACLU on the Federal Hate Crime Bill

Jacob Sullum | 10.13.2009 10:40 PM

Policy

How Many Times Will the House Boldly Condemn Hate Crimes?

Jacob Sullum | 10.9.2009 4:15 PM

Politics

Are You an Anti-Obama Racist?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.1.2009 7:18 PM

Politics

Matt Welch on Bloggingheads.tv Talking Right-Wing Conspiracies and Health Care Semiotics With Michelle Goldberg

Reason Staff | 9.30.2009 12:34 PM

Politics

Obama, Race, and Health Care

Understanding America's real and imagined grievances

Shikha Dalmia | 9.25.2009 12:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Gwen Ifill: I Did Not Know "Teabagging" Meant Sexytime

Matt Welch | 9.22.2009 12:07 PM

Politics

Race and the Opposition to Obama

Hating presidents is an irrepressible American tradition

Steve Chapman | 9.21.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Four Things I Learned About Racism From My Co-Panelists on Air America Last Night

Matt Welch | 9.15.2009 10:32 AM

Politics

Joan Walsh on Matt Welch's "strange slur" and "racial nuttiness"

Matt Welch | 9.11.2009 11:41 AM

Policy

Mr. Jones Goes From Washington, But His Green-Jobs Voodoo Economics Remains

Matt Welch | 9.8.2009 1:58 PM

Politics

(Belatedly Expressed) Fear of a Black President

Matt Welch | 9.2.2009 9:19 AM

Civil Liberties

Emmett Till, T.R.M. Howard, and the Fight for Civil Rights

Damon Root | 8.28.2009 12:55 PM

Politics

The Race War That Isn't

Media anxieties over "lynch mobs" and "brownshirts" demonstrate a telling lack of faith in contemporary America

Matt Welch | 8.25.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

Time's Joe Klein: That's it! I Can't Pretend Any Longer!

Matt Welch | 8.21.2009 10:03 AM

Civil Liberties

A History of Violence

The long, sordid tale of anti-black brutality on the American left

Damon Root | 8.20.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Well, His Shirt Was White…

Jesse Walker | 8.20.2009 10:17 AM

Politics

Big New Journalism Idea: The Hate Beat

Matt Welch | 8.19.2009 6:54 PM

Politics

Our Bigoted Country and its Black President

Matt Welch | 8.11.2009 11:56 AM

Politics

Who's Ready for a New, Race-Based Government Entity Called the "Native Hawaiian Council"!

Matt Welch | 8.10.2009 3:25 PM

Civil Liberties

Judge Dred

Andrew Napolitano | 8.3.2009 10:00 PM

Politics

"When he's not arresting you, Sergeant Crowley is a really likable guy."

Matt Welch | 7.31.2009 11:59 AM

Policy

You Call That Beer?

Jacob Sullum | 7.31.2009 11:31 AM

Policy

Why Does This Banana-Eating Jungle Monkey Have to Make Everything About Race?

Jacob Sullum | 7.30.2009 12:24 PM

Policy

Liberty and Lippiness

Criticizing the police shouldn't be a crime.

Jacob Sullum | 7.29.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Federal Hate Crime Law Looks Inevitable

Jacob Sullum | 7.27.2009 3:02 PM

Policy

The Henry Louis Gates "Teaching Moment"

Put the race talk aside: the issue here is abuse of police power, and misplaced deference to authority

Radley Balko | 7.27.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

From President to Pundit

Why Obama should have stayed quiet about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates

Steve Chapman | 7.27.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Hail to the National Conflict Resolution Mediator

Bill Flanigen | 7.24.2009 6:09 PM

Policy

Sir, You're Becoming Disorderly

Jacob Sullum | 7.24.2009 11:45 AM

Policy

Black Harvard Prof Collared by White Cop!

Henry Louis Gates and the dysfunctional relationship between law enforcement and black America

Damon Root | 7.23.2009 4:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Is Criticizing Police a Crime Now?

Jacob Sullum | 7.23.2009 12:49 PM

Economics

Troubled Minority Broadcasters Relief Program?

Matt Welch | 7.14.2009 4:17 PM

Policy

Southern Poverty Law Center Exposes White Supremacists in the Military

Bill Flanigen | 7.10.2009 12:40 PM

Politics

Classical Liberalism and the Fight for Equal Rights

Remembering the forgotten libertarian legacy of American anti-racism

Damon Root | 7.8.2009 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Do Autobots Dream of Electric Blackface?

Bill Flanigen | 6.26.2009 11:50 AM

Politics

Crime Fighters vs. the Constitution

Where's the authority for federal laws aimed at hate crimes and sex crimes?

Jacob Sullum | 6.24.2009 7:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Richard Nixon's Views on Abortion

Jesse Walker | 6.23.2009 11:18 PM

Politics

Reason Writers Around Town: Watch Damon Root Discuss Dred Scott's Revenge with Judge Andrew Napolitano

Reason Staff | 6.23.2009 11:30 AM

Civil Liberties

City of Toronto, Already Multi-Ethnic, Ups Its Game Via Photoshop

Nick Gillespie | 6.23.2009 8:29 AM

Politics

Sonia Sotomayor and Racial Preferences

How Obama's Supreme Court pick revived the affirmative action debate

Cathy Young | 6.4.2009 3:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Peculiar Apologies

Bill Flanigen | 6.4.2009 2:57 PM

Politics

Sotomayor's Aversion to Impartiality

Why identity politics don't belong on the Supreme Court

Steve Chapman | 6.1.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

Big Swinging Dickens

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.29.2009 6:19 PM