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From the Archives: The Best of Reason on TV

TV is poisoning our children's minds! Said no Reason writer, ever.

Robby Soave | 10.19.2014 12:00 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Rock 'n' Roll Commie Werewolves

The '50s as filtered through SCTV

Jesse Walker | 10.17.2014 8:05 AM

Politics

HBO Finally Offering Online Streaming Without a Cable Package

Stephanie Slade | 10.15.2014 2:46 PM

Politics

MSNBC Has Lousy Ratings—and They're Getting Worse

Reason Staff | 10.13.2014 10:50 AM

Economics

Reason TV: Mike Rowe on the Value of a Strong Work Ethic

Paul Feine | 10.11.2014 10:30 AM

Culture

How Everyone Can Win in the New Culture Wars—and How They Can Lose

Peter Suderman | 10.10.2014 12:24 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Requiem for Jan Hooks

Two sketches from the late 1980s

Jesse Walker | 10.10.2014 8:10 AM

Politics

5 TV Shows All Libertarians Should Hate!: Help Crowdsource a Reason TV Video

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 10.7.2014 8:30 PM

Politics

Lena Dunham, Lil' Jon, and Alec Baldwin's Daughter Rock the Vote!

Anthony Fisher | 10.7.2014 5:32 PM

Civil Liberties

Federal Court Allows Civil Rights Case Against Baltimore Cop Who Inspired a Character on The Wire

Damon Root | 10.3.2014 10:51 AM

Culture

Netflix Aims to Reinvent the Movie Business With Some Help From Adam Sandler

Peter Suderman | 10.2.2014 1:14 PM

Politics

South Park + 4 More: The 5 Best Libertarian TV Shows Ever

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 10.1.2014 8:58 PM

Policy

How Bureaucrats Tried and Failed to Make TV Suck

The history of all things televisionish has been one of fraught relationships between rising innovators and grasping regulators.

J.D. Tuccille | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Video Games

'Watching the Game' Has Found a Completely Different Meaning Online

A massive, worldwide audience has developed to watch people play video games, and it's worth billions.

Scott Shackford | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Policy

The New Face of Television

How murder, treachery, and mayhem made TV a 'vast wasteland' no more

Peter Suderman | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

Video's Gutenberg Moment

How the VX1000 camera revolutionized news, documentaries, and porn.

Jim Epstein | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Politics

The Rise and Fall of Aereo

The Supreme Court squashes one possible future of television.

Damon Root | 10.1.2014 10:00 AM

Culture

Orange Is Back

Robby Soave | 10.1.2014 7:00 AM

Culture

Video: 'South Park' Kicks Off 18th Season by Slur-Shaming Redskins Fans—Why Everyone Should Be Watching

Nick Gillespie and Alexis Garcia | 9.28.2014 1:00 PM

Culture

Why Kids Should Watch South Park

Nick Gillespie | 9.26.2014 5:22 PM

Politics

Why Libertarians (and Everyone Else) Love South Park

Nick Gillespie | 9.24.2014 8:38 AM

Culture

The Libertarian Lesson of Lost

"Don't tell me what I can't do."

Robby Soave | 9.22.2014 11:00 AM

War on Drugs

With a 'Fuck It,' TV Reporter Quits On-Air To Pursue Dream of Legalizing Marijuana

She's mad as hell, and she's not going to take this anymore.

Jesse Walker | 9.22.2014 9:05 AM

Senate

Reality Show Traps Two Senators on a Desert Island. Why Stop There?

Scott Shackford | 9.12.2014 11:00 AM

Culture

The Countercultural Appeal of 19 Kids and Counting

Considering most of what we see on TV, the Duggar family is basically transgressive.

David Harsanyi | 9.5.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Reason Channels TV (and Explains How It Got Good Again)

Reason Staff | 9.1.2014 10:00 AM

Media

Diane Sawyer Passes ABC World News Torch

David Muir takes over September 2.

Reason Staff | 8.28.2014 11:30 AM

Policy

Judge Rules for Polygamists in Sister Wives Case

And he was right to do so.

Jesse Walker | 8.28.2014 10:13 AM

Culture

The Last Ship and Television's Post-Apocalyptic Era

Peter Suderman | 8.22.2014 1:04 PM

Civil Liberties

Friday A/V Club: Avant-Garde ACLU Ads of the 1970s

Directed by Godfrey Reggio

Jesse Walker | 8.22.2014 8:30 AM

Politics

Friday A/V Club: Woody Allen's Lost Nixon Movie

A mockumentary that PBS wouldn't air

Jesse Walker | 8.8.2014 9:32 AM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: Hollywood Explains These New-Fangled Computer Thingies

For the filmmakers of the '80s, computers were magic and hackers were wizards.

Jesse Walker | 7.25.2014 11:27 AM

Television

Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, and Fargo Rack Up Emmy Nominations

Damon Root | 7.10.2014 9:49 AM

Culture

One Day Only Old People Will Remember the '90s

History doesn't stop no matter what you yell as you stand athwart it.

Jesse Walker | 7.3.2014 10:01 AM

Culture

What if 'Seinfeld' Aired Today?

In 25 years, our star-crossed text messages and Instagram issues will seem as quaint as Jerry and George's answering machine and parking garage shenanigans.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.3.2014 8:00 AM

Policy

Following Its Supreme Court Defeat, Online TV Service Aereo Halts Operations

What does this week's SCOTUS decision mean for the future of the TV industry?

Jim Epstein | 6.28.2014 3:30 PM

Civil Liberties

Friday A/V Club: Equal Time for Surrealist Subversion

The Yippies make a TV show.

Jesse Walker | 6.27.2014 12:08 PM

Policy

Supreme Court Rules 6–3 Against Aereo

A setback for tech freedom.

Jesse Walker | 6.25.2014 2:32 PM

Culture

Friday A/V Club: The Writer, the Serial Killer, and the Goddess of Chaos

A bizarre moment on Court TV

Jesse Walker | 6.13.2014 11:44 AM

Barack Obama

Barack Obama Attached Himself to Premiere of Cosmos, Says Neil de Grasse Tyson

Ed Krayewski | 6.11.2014 4:42 PM

Culture

Rik Mayall, RIP

Farewell to Rick of The Young Ones

Jesse Walker | 6.9.2014 12:22 PM

Politics

Friday A/V Club: Jerry Brown and Francis Ford Coppola's 'Transmission From Some Clandestine Place on Mars'

One of the strangest live political broadcasts of all time.

Jesse Walker | 6.6.2014 11:09 AM

Culture

Latest Game of Thrones Episode: No Justice In Blood Feuds, Trial By Combat

Was anyone avenged or redeemed amid the senseless violence? Was there any justice?

Robby Soave | 6.2.2014 3:00 PM

Culture

Condolences to Red Eye's Greg Gutfeld on the Passing of His Mother Jackie

Nick Gillespie | 6.1.2014 11:15 AM