Regulation

Politics

Trivial Pursuit in Washington

Do we really need federal laws governing carry-on luggage, college football, and switchblades?

Steve Chapman | 7.13.2009 7:00 AM

Policy

Unsafe at Any Speed?

Why Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is spreading needless fear about air travel

David Harsanyi | 7.8.2009 12:00 PM

Politics

Public Private Partnerships and the Free Will Problem

Tim Cavanaugh | 7.7.2009 9:25 PM

Policy

Take Three; They're Smaller Now

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2009 3:54 PM

Policy

Energy Leninism

Is the Democratic Party's energy policy overreach setting up another 1994?

Ronald Bailey | 6.30.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Reason Morning Links: Cap and Trade, Cash for Clunkers, a Chief for the FCC

Jesse Walker | 6.26.2009 9:13 AM

Policy

Obama's Not-So-Secret Shame

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2009 5:48 PM

Policy

Rhetoric vs. Reality in the Health Care Debate

Is it "rationing" when consumers decide how to spend their own money?

Ronald Bailey | 6.23.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Philip Morris, Hero of the Anti-Smoking Movement

Jacob Sullum | 6.22.2009 11:21 AM

Policy

Cigarette Control and Thought Control

Reasons to beware the new tobacco regulation bill

Steve Chapman | 6.22.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

The Myth of Financial Deregulation

Government action caused the economic crisis, not the free market.

Anthony Randazzo | 6.19.2009 4:30 PM

Politics

Berlau on Obama's New Regs: So Much for That

Matt Welch | 6.17.2009 12:52 PM

Policy

Here Are the New Financial Regulations

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.17.2009 12:04 PM

Policy

Geithner and Summers Preview New Financial Regs

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.15.2009 1:57 PM

Politics

Reason Morning Links: Riots, Regulations, and Real ID

Jesse Walker | 6.15.2009 8:24 AM

Policy

How I Became a Victim of the Digital TV Switch

Jacob Sullum | 6.12.2009 6:28 PM

Politics

How Long Will the New Tobacco Ad Restrictions Last?

Jacob Sullum | 6.12.2009 4:26 PM

Policy

Reason Morning Links: Tobacco, Guantanamo, Land Ho!

Jesse Walker | 6.12.2009 8:32 AM

Policy

FDA Will Regulate Tobacco Products (But Don't Tell Consumers)

Jacob Sullum | 6.11.2009 5:36 PM

Policy

Covering Their Butts

Why it's misleading to say the FDA is regulating cigarettes

Jacob Sullum | 6.10.2009 7:00 AM

Politics

The Beginning of the End of Private Health Insurance

How Obama's public health insurance option will quickly evolve into the only option

Ronald Bailey | 6.9.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Reason Morning Links: Big Government, Bad Countrywide, Busy Raelians

Jesse Walker | 6.5.2009 8:41 AM

Policy

'One of the Worst Public Health Laws Ever Conceived'

Jacob Sullum | 6.4.2009 11:47 AM

Policy

If It's Not Regulated, How Can It Be Safer Than Sucking Smoke?

Jacob Sullum | 6.3.2009 1:53 PM

Policy

Two Pints of Non-Alcoholic Lager and a Packet of Fat-Free Crisps

How pointless regulations are ruining British pub life

Josie Appleton | 6.1.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

Reason.tv: Smiles Outlawed: DMV Makes Life Even More Miserable

Reason Staff | 5.29.2009 7:41 PM

Policy

Trust Fund

Regulation and corruption

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.29.2009 8:16 AM

Politics

Excuse Me, Ma'am, We've Had Reports of Prayer

Jacob Sullum | 5.28.2009 2:18 PM

Policy

Would Frank's Gambling Bill Favor U.S. Companies?

Jacob Sullum | 5.27.2009 3:41 PM

Policy

You Can't Handle the Truth

Do genetic tests need more federal regulation?

Ronald Bailey | 5.27.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Reason Morning Links: Bankruptcy for the Automakers, Untaxed Income for the Texans, Sympathy for the Canadians

Jesse Walker | 5.22.2009 8:34 AM

Policy

Federal Trade Commission to, uh, Hold a Series of Workshops About Newspapers?

Matt Welch | 5.20.2009 7:41 PM

Politics

Sarbanes-Oxley Makes it to Supreme Court

Brian Doherty | 5.20.2009 2:58 PM

Politics

Coming to Your Garage: Le Car

The trouble with the government's new automobile emissions and efficiency standards

David Harsanyi | 5.20.2009 2:00 PM

Policy

Dangerous Toys, Strange Bedfellows

Hipster moms and conservative congressmen join forces against the regulatory state.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 5.18.2009 12:00 PM

Policy

Tsar Maker

Jesse Walker | 5.13.2009 3:04 PM

Politics

Health Care Corporatism Arrives

Consumers will pay the price if government partners with the health care industry

Ronald Bailey | 5.12.2009 3:15 PM

Policy

'We're About Harm Reduction…Except I Can't Say That'

Jacob Sullum | 5.6.2009 6:09 PM

Policy

Moran's Stiff Opposition to Sexual Innuendo Hard to Understand

Jacob Sullum | 5.4.2009 4:51 PM

Policy

FDA to Ban Electronic Cigarettes

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2009 4:46 PM

Policy

Heart Attacks Rise After Smoking Bans As Often As They Fall

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2009 12:38 PM

Policy

Letters

Bush's midnight regulations, who's your daddy?, bongs away!...

Reason Staff | 4.29.2009 5:19 PM

Policy

Reason Morning Links: Private Police, Oriental Orientalism, and the Difference a Soundtrack Makes

Jesse Walker | 4.24.2009 7:15 AM

Policy

Yielding to Ideology Over Science

Why don't environmentalists celebrate modern farming on Earth Day?

Ronald Bailey | 4.21.2009 3:00 PM

Politics

The Clandestine War Over the Food Safety Modernization Act

Is the day coming when even your home garden will be against the law?

Brian Doherty | 4.20.2009 3:00 PM

Policy

Mothers Against Sensible Data

Jeff Winkler | 4.16.2009 12:44 PM

Policy

Will People 'Mistakenly Perceive' Health Benefits From Not Smoking?

Jacob Sullum | 4.14.2009 6:34 PM

Policy

Queue No More

Canada's surprising proposal for fast tracking new drugs to patients

Ronald Bailey | 4.14.2009 3:30 PM