Transparency

Politics

Rand Paul: Shouldn't Legislators Have Time to Seriously Read the Bills They Sign?

Brian Doherty | 7.2.2012 6:43 PM

Politics

Obama's Secretive Drug War: DEA FOIA Rejections Have Increased 114 Percent Since End of Bush Administration

Mike Riggs | 6.29.2012 3:00 PM

Politics

Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress Over "Fast and Furious"

Brian Doherty | 6.28.2012 6:33 PM

Politics

CNN Contributor and "Journalist of the Year": Why Do People Need to Know So Much Darn News that the Government Would Rather They Didn't Know?

Brian Doherty | 6.26.2012 5:55 PM

Politics

Torture Database Chronicles Old Presidential Misdeeds as President Moves Forward

Ed Krayewski | 6.26.2012 2:36 PM

Politics

Lift the Ban on the Domestic Dissemination of U.S. Propaganda

It's time for American citizens to see the government-funded propaganda directed at other countries.

Greg Beato | 6.21.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

FOIA Favoritism at the FCC

Mike Riggs | 6.21.2012 11:58 AM

Politics

Bradley Manning Thanks Supporters; New Federal Probe into National Security Leaks Likely to Include White House

Ed Krayewski | 6.13.2012 3:21 PM

Politics

Is the UN Planning to Regulate the Internet? WCITLeaks Aims to Find Out.

Peter Suderman | 6.6.2012 2:23 PM

Politics

Philly FOP President to Police Advisory Commission: "Your group poses a direct threat to public safety in this City. A threat which should no longer be tolerated by our citizens or their government."

Ed Krayewski | 6.4.2012 2:22 PM

Politics

No More Disappearing Wieners: Politwoops Archives Deleted Politician Tweets

Scott Shackford | 5.30.2012 7:20 PM

Politics

While Rep. Justin Amash Pushes His Amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, A Judge Has Temporarily Blocked Portions of the NDAA on First and Fifth Amendment Grounds

Lucy Steigerwald | 5.17.2012 11:00 PM

Politics

The Most Open and Transparent Administration in History Confiscates Cell Phones Before Fundraising Dinner

Mike Riggs | 5.15.2012 9:03 AM

Politics

Obama Administration Security Official: We Don't Need to Subpoena Reporters Anymore Because We Already Know Who They're Talking To

Peter Suderman | 5.7.2012 2:35 PM

Politics

Obama Naming & Shaming Private Romney Donors

Matt Welch | 4.27.2012 1:14 PM

Politics

New Video Reveals Bankruptcy of California High-Speed Rail

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.16.2012 7:00 AM

Politics

C-SPAN's Brian Lamb Steps Down

Matt Welch | 3.19.2012 7:51 AM

Politics

The Most Open and Transparent Administration In History?

Peter Suderman | 3.5.2012 11:02 AM

Politics

ACLU to U.S. Government: If You Can Brag About Drone Strike Success, You Can Discuss The Program in Court

Lucy Steigerwald | 2.24.2012 5:39 PM

Politics

Obama's Administration Continues Its Record of Criminal Cases Against "Leakers"

Brian Doherty | 1.24.2012 10:25 AM

Politics

The New York Times Is Suing the DOJ Over the Assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki

Mike Riggs | 12.21.2011 5:29 PM

Politics

VP Attends Closed Door Meeting on Transparency

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.17.2011 12:28 PM

Politics

Holder Nixes Rule Telling Agencies to Lie About FOIA Records

Jacob Sullum | 11.3.2011 6:58 PM

Politics

File Not Found

Why does the most open and transparent administration in history prefer to lie about government records?

Jacob Sullum | 11.2.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Proposed FOIA Update: Government Should Be Allowed to Pretend Records Don't Exist

Lucy Steigerwald | 10.25.2011 8:00 PM

Politics

"What I don't quite understand is why anonymous giving to politically-minded organizations only becomes a threat to democracy…when it's done by free market organizations"

Matt Welch | 9.8.2011 1:26 PM

Politics

Put on a Guy Fawkes Mask, Bring Transparency Back to Texas

Jesse Walker | 9.7.2011 12:30 PM

Politics

Uppity Young Geek Steals Legitimately Downloads Millions of Documents. Again.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.20.2011 11:05 AM

Politics

Reason.tv: The Killing of Allen Kephart - How the police lost the trust of a law-and-order town

Tim Cavanaugh and Paul Detrick | 7.5.2011 10:00 AM

Politics

Transparency Advocate and Former Obama Adviser on "Our Untransparent President"

Matt Welch | 6.27.2011 8:35 AM

Politics

Reason on TV: Epstein, Judge Napolitano on Reporters Being Arrested for Having Cameras at Public Meetings

Reason Staff | 6.23.2011 5:45 PM

Politics

"I really believe Assange is disturbed"

Mike Riggs | 5.12.2011 3:45 PM

Politics

Why Did It Take 10 Years to Get Osama bin Laden?

Tim Cavanaugh | 5.2.2011 3:38 PM

Politics

What Are California Cities Hiding?

Tim Cavanaugh | 4.26.2011 12:43 PM

Politics

Mike Huckabee's (Hard) Drive

Radley Balko | 4.4.2011 7:07 PM

Politics

Obama: Sunshine Superman or Lex Luthor of Open Gov't?

Nick Gillespie | 3.17.2011 10:14 AM

Politics

Is Julian Assange a Journalist?

For First Amendment purposes, it doesn't matter.

Jacob Sullum | 3.15.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Felonizing Whistleblowers

Matt Welch | 2.17.2011 10:07 AM

Politics

Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Government: Love the Twitter, Hate the Tweet

Brian Doherty | 2.16.2011 1:40 PM