Taxes

Policy

Better Not Shop Around

Online cigarette sales.

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Why Republicans Can't Cut Spending

The GOP switch from government-shrinking to machine-building has backfired.

Jonathan Rauch | 1.23.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Outsourcing City Hall

A leaner, more efficient way to push people around.

Jesse Walker | 1.3.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Giving Away the Store to Get a Store

Tax increment financing is no bargain for taxpayers.

Daniel McGraw | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

The Gentle Persuader

The long shadow of Alan Greenspan.

Jeff Taylor | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 12.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Human Sacrifice Yes! Political Sacrifice No!

California has come a long way since the recall.

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.11.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Inherit the Windfall

Shikha Dalmia | 11.9.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Reason Express

Vol. 8 No. 40

Jeff Taylor | 10.11.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

A Flood of Red Ink

The fiscal fallout from Hurricane Katrina

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

How to Be Inhuman

What are the limits to biotech modification?

Ronald Bailey | 9.21.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Trade, Not Aid

Farm protectionism threatens farms in Africa, wallets in America, and lives everywhere

Christopher Preble and Marian Tupy | 6.17.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

A Fistful of Lard

The "fatophobia" backlash

Cathy Young | 5.10.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Social Security's Progressive Paradox

Retirement "insurance" as a Rube Goldberg machine

Julian Sanchez | 5.2.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Demolishing Sports Welfare

Two court cases could mean the end of publicly funded stadiums.

Daniel McGraw | 5.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Tax Days with Morrie

Mitch Albom avoids an audit.

Jesse Walker | 4.13.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Big-Government Gridlock

If law is a highway, Congress will ride it way too long

Gabriel Roth | 4.7.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Gimme Shelters

Benefits of tax havens.

Julian Sanchez | 3.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Revolting Development

Can the Supreme Court stop the spread of blight?

Jacob Sullum | 2.25.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Revive Gramm-Rudmann

Complete print edition now available in digital version on NewsStand.com

Jonathan Rauch | 2.13.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Saving Graces

The case for private retirement accounts does not depend on Social Security's bankruptcy

Jacob Sullum | 2.4.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Four More Years!?!?!

7 high hopes and 7 big fears for Bush's second term.

Reason Staff | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Rant: Live Free and Die of Boredom

Is "economic freedom" just another word for nothing left to do?

Nick Gillespie | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

All That Have Not Fins and Scales

Imports are an abomination, according to domestic shrimpers

Kerry Howley | 1.20.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Do Drug Companies Kill Poor People?

How for-profit medicine helps even the poorest

Ronald Bailey | 1.5.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Uncle Sam's Christmas Special

Widows and orphans robbed in tax code switcheroo

Ted Balaker | 12.23.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Thatcher's Lesson for Bush

Good plan, Republicans, but it didn't work in Britain

Jonathan Rauch | 12.18.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

The Last Gaffe?

The president's chief economic adviser has a problem with the truth

Jacob Sullum | 12.10.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Revolt of the Porcupines!

The Free State Project wants libertarians to take over New Hampshire. Is this a revolutionary plan or a pipe dream?

Brian Doherty | 12.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

The First Free State Project

The brief, tumultuous history of Franklin.

Jackson Kuhl | 12.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Jayhawk Down

Economic freedom may be just another word for nothing else to do

Nick Gillespie | 11.18.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

The Country Didn't Turn Right

But the GOP Did

Jonathan Rauch | 11.15.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Bush's Time To Deliver

The Republicans have four more years to act on their professed principles

Jacob Sullum | 11.5.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Secession Fever

Live free...or in Vermont

Hanah Metchis | 11.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Data

Lost Horizon

Julian Sanchez | 11.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Prozac For President

Bush Is Not a Safe Pair of Hands. But Is Kerry?

Jonathan Rauch | 10.25.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

How High Are the Stakes in 2004?

Not as high as you think

Jonathan Rauch | 10.13.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

You May Already Be A Winner

Who really benefits from the Bush tax cuts?

Nick Gillespie and Michael Snell | 10.6.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

School Net Scams

No tech firm left behind.

Lisa Snell | 10.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Stretch Fun

Kerry looks for something, anything to run on

Jeff Taylor | 9.20.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Shaqsourcing

Lakers' ex-center joins the exodus of jobs from America...to America

Ted Balaker | 7.16.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Data: Flat-Tax Perspective

Julian Sanchez | 7.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Kerry Tale Ending

A fantasy tax-plan to win the White House

Jeff Taylor | 6.21.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

"It's So Simple, It's Ridiculous"

Taxing times for 16th Amendment rebels.

Brian Doherty | 5.1.2004 8:02 AM

Policy

Data: State Squeeze

Julian Sanchez | 5.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Five Reasons You Don't Owe Income Tax, Dammit!

The most heartfelt beliefs of the "tax honesty" movement.

Brian Doherty | 5.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Confessions of a Welfare Queen

How rich bastards like me rip off taxpayers for millions of dollars

John Stossel | 3.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

State of the SotU

Some notes for the teams

Julian Sanchez | 1.21.2004 12:00 AM