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• The Ruling Class
  Scenes from the class struggle on the American right
  Jesse Walker
  September 2, 2010
• Good Intentions Gone Bad
  The problem with the Americans With Disabilities Act
  John Stossel
  September 2, 2010
• The Pointless Prosecution of Roger Clemens
  All perjuries are not created equal.
  Steve Chapman
  September 2, 2010
• Lost and Found
  Taking Inventory of the Public’s Real Property Assets
  Anthony Randazzo
  September 2, 2010
• The State of Iraq
  Nation building might work, but it's not worth it.
  David Harsanyi
  September 1, 2010
• Knowing is Half the Battle. But It's the Easy Half.
  Liberating teacher performance data is a great way to start out the school year. But it's not enough.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  September 1, 2010
• Simpson and the Sacred Cow
  The reaction to the former senator's comments on Social Security shows he's right.
  Jacob Sullum
  September 1, 2010
• Gas Prices Explained
  Solving the deep mystery of gasoline price fluctuations
  Ronald Bailey
  August 31, 2010
• Needs More RAM
  Another drug raid gone bad
  Radley Balko
  August 31, 2010
• Life for Poker
  The arrest of online gambling entrepreneur Daniel Tzvetkoff
  Jacob Sullum
  August 31, 2010
• The Golden Age of Comic Books
  On the past and future of the funny pages
  Brian Doherty
  August 30, 2010
• Hatching Bigger Government
  Is government regulation making our food any safer?
  Steve Chapman
  August 30, 2010
• California’s Gift of Shame
  How IOUs, layoffs, late payments, and other bad news may still save the Golden State
  Tim Cavanaugh
  August 27, 2010
• China's Looming Real-Estate Bubble
  A massive Keynesian spending program has misallocated capital and set the stage for a crisis.
  Shikha Dalmia and Anthony Randazzo
  August 27, 2010
• Taking Economic Liberty Seriously
  Does the Constitution protect the right to earn a living?
  Damon W. Root
  August 26, 2010
• Where Are the New Jobs?
  Why bigger government isn't working
  John Stossel
  August 26, 2010
• Inconvenient Facts About Stem-Cell Research
  Understanding Judge Royce Lamberth's recent decision
  Steve Chapman
  August 26, 2010
• A Superhero For Mayor?
  Brian K. Vaughan’s Ex Machina chronicles the perils of power—political and otherwise.
  Peter Suderman
  August 25, 2010
• Gridlock Is Our Greatest Hope
  The case for divided government
  David Harsanyi
  August 25, 2010
• Guilt by Complication
  The Blagojevich blowout shows a long indictment may signal weakness.
  Jacob Sullum
  August 25, 2010
• Lessons from the Bell, California Fiasco
  High government salaries means soaring pension costs that taxpayers cannot afford.
  Adam Summers
  August 24, 2010
• Egg Recall Hatches More Regulations
  More FDA regulations don't always mean greater food safety.
  Ronald Bailey
  August 24, 2010
• A Reality Check in the Ground Zero Mosque Debate
  The war of words has become short on facts
  Cathy Young
  August 23, 2010
• North Carolina's Corrupted Crime Lab
  A damning state report finds systematic abuse, including in death penalty cases.
  Radley Balko
  August 23, 2010
• Republicans for Religous Freedom
  Why the GOP should beware the dangers of putting religion at the mercy of government.
  Steve Chapman
  August 23, 2010
• China's Looming Real-Estate Bubble
  A massive Keynesian spending program has misallocated capital and set the stage for a crisis
  Shikha Dalmia and Anthony Randazzo
  August 23, 2010
• General Delay-Us
  Will the Afghan mission be over by 2012? Depends on the mission.
  Brian Doherty
  August 19, 2010
• Obama Demagogues Private Enterprise
  The president's misguided attacks on privatization
  John Stossel
  August 19, 2010
• Divesting Virginia’s Liquid Assets: The Rationale for ABC Privatization, Part 1
  Virginia doesn't need a "public option" in liquor
  Leonard Gilroy
  August 19, 2010
• Bell Isn't Only California City That Should Re-Examine Pensions, Salaries
  High government salaries mean soaring pension costs that taxpayers cannot afford
  Adam Summers
  August 19, 2010
• The Truth About the Pay Gap
  Feminist politics and bad economics
  Steve Chapman
  August 19, 2010
• Dissecting the Geithner View on Housing Reform
  Secretary Geithner is making too many assumptions before the housing debate begins
  Anthony Randazzo
  August 19, 2010
• The Next Debate Over the "Ground Zero Mosque"
  Is it bigoted to criticize religion?
  David Harsanyi
  August 18, 2010
• Eye of Newt
  The former House speaker knows a "stealth jihadi" when he sees one
  Jacob Sullum
  August 18, 2010
• Biotech Beets Banned
  Beet ban will hurt farmers while strengthening massive seed monopolies
  Ronald Bailey
  August 17, 2010
• Two Cheers for American Tolerance
  The Ground Zero mosque controversy shows that America manages its hatreds better than others
  Shikha Dalmia
  August 17, 2010
• Giving Birth to Immigration Fears
  Why birthright citizenship is nothing to worry about
  Steve Chapman
  August 16, 2010
• The Government's License To Steal
  Indiana's laws prohibiting police departments from enriching themselves via asset forfeiture would be much more effective if they weren't ignored.
  Radley Balko
  August 16, 2010
• Who's the Radical?
  Extremism on the left and the right
  David Harsanyi
  August 16, 2010
• Why Buy the Cow?
  Legal weed, jokes about communists, and the perils of purchasing your own milk maker.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  August 13, 2010
• Confronting Washington's Job Killers
  How costly and unnecessary regulations cripple the American economy
  Jon Basil Utley
  August 13, 2010
• A Holiday from Fiscal Responsibility
  The case against sales tax holidays
  Steve Chapman
  August 12, 2010
• The Original Mad Man
  How advertising genius Albert Lasker transformed America
  Greg Beato
  August 12, 2010
• A Memo to Alan Greenspan
  Why the former Fed chairman should keep quiet
  John Stossel
  August 12, 2010
• Is It Crazy to Call Californians Irrational?
  The weak case against gay marriage
  Jacob Sullum
  August 11, 2010
• Born in the U.S.A.
  The misguided movement to strip birthright citizenship from the Constitution
  Damon W. Root
  August 11, 2010
• Contract with America 0.5
  The GOP should resurrect a few ideas from 1994
  David Harsanyi
  August 11, 2010
• Invasion of the Invasive Species!
  Local biodiversity is increasing.
  Ronald Bailey
  August 10, 2010
• How Much Government Is Enough?
  An interview with John Samples
  Jeremy Lott
  August 10, 2010
• "Police Officers Don't Check Their Civil Rights at the Station House Door"
  Three law enforcement officials defend the arrest of citizens who record on-duty cops.
  Radley Balko
  August 9, 2010
• The Mosque Controversy and Religious Freedom
  Symbolism and sensitivities do matter.
  Cathy Young
  August 9, 2010
• Overreaching on Gay Marriage
  Voters should decide the future of same-sex marriage—not federal judges.
  Steve Chapman
  August 9, 2010
• Julian Assange, WikiJournalist
  Is the Wikileaks "editor-in-chief" a journalist or an activist? Or both?
  Michael C. Moynihan
  August 6, 2010
• Paying More for Less
  Medicaid fails taxpayers and patients.
  Peter Suderman
  August 6, 2010
• Time for a Divorce
  Why government should get out of the marriage business
  David Harsanyi
  August 6, 2010
• Private Enterprise Does It Better
  Why freedom and responsibility triumph over regulation and central planning
  John Stossel
  August 5, 2010
• The Unaffordability of Endless War
  Transforming distant nations is a costly luxury.
  Steve Chapman
  August 5, 2010
• Is This Tolerance?
  The debate over the Ground Zero mosque
  David Harsanyi
  August 4, 2010
• The Spanish Prisoner
  The unequal burdens of Arizona's immigration law
  Jacob Sullum
  August 4, 2010
• More Fed Power Won't Save the Economy
  After failing to catch the last bubble the Fed and Treasury have been selected to stop the next crisis... really?
  Anthony Randazzo
  August 4, 2010
• Do Libertarians Belong at Sea?
  The Seasteading Project floats through a second aquatic festival
  Brian Doherty
  August 4, 2010
• Citizen Science, Microfinanced Research, Patent Trolls, and Pharma Prizes
  A final dispatch from the Open Science Summit.
  Ronald Bailey
  August 3, 2010
• Rethinking the Highway Trust Fund
  Frequently asked questions about Interstate 2.0 proposal
  Robert Poole and Adrian Moore
  August 3, 2010
• Summary of Restoring Trust In the Highway Trust Fund
  Refocusing the federal program and federal fuel tax revenue
  Robert Poole and Adrian Moore
  August 3, 2010
• More Freedom Is a Safe Bet
  The folly of banning online gambling
  Steve Chapman
  August 2, 2010
• Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse
  Unless you work in law enforcement
  Radley Balko
  August 2, 2010
• Bid Adios to the Anti-Global Warming Movement
  Now that Harry Reid has abandoned cap-and-trade, the movement has no ideas left.
  Shikha Dalmia
  August 2, 2010
• Scenes from the Open Science Summit
  Ronald Bailey's first dispatch from the conference that aims to launch Enlightenment 2.0
  Ronald Bailey
  July 30, 2010
• Growing Pains
  ObamaCare won't stop rising health care costs.
  Peter Suderman
  July 30, 2010
• Ignoring the Gigantic Subprime Elephants in the Room
  The Dodd-Frank Act kicked the can down the road on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac reform
  Anthony Randazzo
  July 29, 2010
• Forced to Be Free
  What burqa bans, anti-TV crusades, and Leonard Peikoff have in common with the reform movements of the antebellum era
  Jesse Walker
  July 29, 2010
• Don't Ask, Don't Tell Should Go
  It's time to let gays serve openly in the military
  John Stossel
  July 29, 2010
• Dueling Protests
  The socially conservative Summer for Marriage Tour hits Madison, Wisconsin
  Steve Chapman
  July 29, 2010
• New Rules for Schools
  For-profit schools got fat on federal education money. Now the government wants to put them on a diet.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  July 28, 2010
• The Truth About Tibetan Buddhism
  There’s more to this ancient religion than Hollywood celebrities would have you believe
  Brendan O'Neill
  July 28, 2010
• A Rhee of Hope
  Will Michelle Rhee fix D.C.'s notoriously dysfunctional school system?
  David Harsanyi
  July 28, 2010
• These Buds Are for You
  Legal marijuana would be a boon for California consumers.
  Jacob Sullum
  July 28, 2010
• A Genetic Testing Dupe?
  The government says I am being misled by useless information about my genes. I disagree.
  Ronald Bailey
  July 27, 2010
• Copy Fight
  A new front opens in the battle over online copyright infringement
  Greg Beato
  July 27, 2010
• Internet Addiction
  What once was parody may soon be diagnosis.
  Greg Beato
  July 26, 2010
• The Art of the Unbelievable
  The trouble with Illinois politics
  Steve Chapman
  July 26, 2010
• Hollywood Babylon—For Ugly People
  A week of navel-gazing coverage of Andrew Breitbart, the Journolist, and race
  Michael C. Moynihan
  July 23, 2010
• Repeal Religious Freedom at Ground Zero?
  It's wrong to "refudiate" the First Amendment
  Steve Chapman
  July 22, 2010
• The Immigration Question
  Why we should let more people in
  John Stossel
  July 22, 2010
• Bono and Buttman
  If indecency is unconstitutionally vague, why isn't obscenity?
  Jacob Sullum
  July 21, 2010
• Where Do Libertarians Belong Politically?
  Maybe nowhere
  Brian Doherty
  July 21, 2010
• Obama's Lack of Faith
  It's time to start trusting the American people
  David Harsanyi
  July 21, 2010
• Got Environmental Problems? Think Government.
  Foreign Policy identifies true environmental catastrophes, but misses the main cause.
  Ronald Bailey
  July 20, 2010
• Teachers Unions vs. Online Education
  Kids live on the Internet. Why aren’t they learning online too?
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  July 20, 2010
• A Radical Proposal for Airline Security
  It's time to abolish the no-fly list
  Steve Chapman
  July 19, 2010
• The Stagliano Victory Party
  Final notes from the Justice Department's obscene case against the adult film industry.
  Richard Abowitz
  July 19, 2010
• Unions ‘Own the Democratic Party’
  Contrarian author, blogger, and senatorial candidate Mickey Kaus on interest-group politics, immigration, and the Velvet Underground
  Nick Gillespie
  July 19, 2010
• Star Witness Makes a Liar out of Stagliano's Prosecution
  Bombshell testimony from an FBI agent is just the latest travesty in an error-riddled prosecution that should be thrown out of court
  Richard Abowitz
  July 16, 2010
• The Age of Limbaugh
  When politics and popular entertainment collide
  Jesse Walker
  July 16, 2010
• Rationing Debate
  The case for and against President Obama’s newest health care administrator.
  Peter Suderman
  July 15, 2010
• Government Attacks on Freedom
  How petty regulations and "zero tolerance" policies destroy liberty
  John Stossel
  July 15, 2010
• The Obsolescence of Federal Censorship
  Do Americans really need protection from an onslaught of indecent broadcasting?
  Steve Chapman
  July 15, 2010
• Spending Can Be Cut
  Politicians who tell you democracies can’t slash spending are lying.
  Veronique de Rugy
  July 14, 2010
• Toy Story 3 and the Tea Party Movement
  How concerns about lost liberty are filtering into mainstream culture.
  David Harsanyi
  July 14, 2010
• Porn Over National Security, Vice Squad Overreach, and Censorship in the Courtroom
  More dispatches from the John Stagliano obscenity trial
  Richard Abowitz
  July 14, 2010
• Who's Afraid of Federalism?
  Gay marriage and the 10th Amendment
  Jacob Sullum
  July 14, 2010
• Forcing Consumers to Buy Renewable Energy
  Congress pretends to solve an energy crisis
  Ronald Bailey
  July 13, 2010
• Obama’s Immigration Distraction
  Even immigrants are shunning America’s sputtering economy
  Shikha Dalmia
  July 13, 2010
• Closed Court, Miller Time, and Joey Silvera's Solidarity
  Dispatches from the John Stagliano trial
  Richard Abowitz
  July 13, 2010
• Mystery Train
  How has California’s high-speed rail project survived for 14 years without a plan, a budget, or a single accomplishment?
  Tim Cavanaugh
  July 13, 2010
• Justice for Johannes Mehserle
  The involuntary manslaughter verdict for Oscar Grant's killer may not be popular, but it is appropriate.
  Radley Balko
  July 12, 2010
• The Trial of John Stagliano
  This week's momentous obscenity case shows that Obama's Justice Department is no different than Bush's when it comes to pornographic speech.
  Richard Abowitz
  July 12, 2010
• Where Do Libertarians Belong?
  A reason Debate
  Brink Lindsey, Matt Kibbe and Jonah Goldberg
  July 12, 2010
• Stuck in Afghanistan
  What happened to Obama's Afghan strategy?
  Steve Chapman
  July 12, 2010
• The Defector
  Christopher Hitchens’ memoir details a lifetime in combat journalism
  Michael C. Moynihan
  July 9, 2010
• Civil Rights and Armed Self-Defense
  Understanding Clarence Thomas' extraordinary concurring opinion in McDonald v. Chicago
  Damon W. Root
  July 9, 2010
• The Government's Catastrophic Response to the Oil Disaster
  Washington's reaction is causing greater damage than the event itself.
  Jon Basil Utley
  July 9, 2010
• Private Prisons a Smart Strategy for Kentucky
  Letter to the Editor submitted to the Louisville Courier-Journal
  Leonard Gilroy
  July 8, 2010
• Wine Snobs and Suds Swillers Unite!
  Legislation oozing its way up the Hill threatens open markets in beer, wine, and liquor.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  July 8, 2010
• Parasitic Tort Lawyers
  The trouble with trial lawyers
  John Stossel
  July 8, 2010
• The FBI Closes a Window to the Truth
  Why federal investigators should use recording devices
  Steve Chapman
  July 8, 2010
• A Case Study in Local News Futility
  A Pennsylvania TV station utterly botches an important story about police officers and transparency.
  Radley Balko
  July 7, 2010
• Beck U
  The excitable Fox News host goes to college
  Michael C. Moynihan
  July 7, 2010
• Natural Reluctance
  Elena Kagan's disturbing refusal to acknowledge pre-existing rights
  Jacob Sullum
  July 7, 2010
• The Death of Neoliberalism
  Pro-market Democrats disappeared just when we needed them most.
  Matt Welch
  July 6, 2010
• Sustainability Semantics
  John Locke, the U.N., and how to figure out if an acre of land would rather be a swamp or a cornfield
  Ronald Bailey
  July 6, 2010
• How Republicans Made Their Peace with Sodomy
  The GOP's selective case against judicial activism
  Steve Chapman
  July 5, 2010
• The Laptop Theater
  The health of Hollywood is not the same as the health of motion pictures.
  Jesse Walker
  July 2, 2010
• A Dangerous Precedent
  Understanding the stakes in Christian Legal Society v. Hastings
  Cathy Young
  July 2, 2010
• A Propagandist for Oppression
  The sinister nonsense of Oliver Stone's South of the Border
  Antonio Rumbos
  July 1, 2010
• The Aftermath of McDonald v. Chicago
  What's next for gun rights?
  Brian Doherty
  July 1, 2010
• Entrepreneurship Helps Make America Great
  Free enterprise matters
  John Stossel
  July 1, 2010
• Temporary Funding Forever?
  What happens when the federal government finally shuts short-term money down?
  Peter Suderman
  June 30, 2010
• Spend, Baby, Spend!
  The trouble with Obama's economic agenda
  David Harsanyi
  June 30, 2010
• Gun Shy
  Four Supreme Court justices make the case against constitutional rights.
  Jacob Sullum
  June 30, 2010
• Too Much Confidence
  Bernanke Wants Us to Trust His Poor Record
  Anthony Randazzo and Marius Gustavson
  June 30, 2010
• Will Elena Kagan Allow Books to be Banned?
  Understanding the Supreme Court nominee’s chilling argument in Citizens United
  Daniel Shuchman
  June 29, 2010
• Scientific Consensus Redux
  Looking back, it turns out that a lot of scientific consensuses were wrong.
  Ronald Bailey
  June 29, 2010
• Don't Nationalize BP
  Big Government is no cure for the failure of Big Oil
  Shikha Dalmia
  June 29, 2010
• Police Blackout
  Law enforcement agencies in Northern Virginia say you have no right to know what they’re doing.
  Radley Balko
  June 29, 2010
• Confirmation Theater
  Elena Kagan is set to participate in a confirmation process she once dismissed as a charade
  Radley Balko
  June 28, 2010
• Unfaithful Friend of Liberty
  John Paul Stevens’ spotty record as a defender of individual rights
  Jacob Sullum
  June 28, 2010
• Citizenship Should Remain a Birthright
  The latest bad idea about immigration from Arizona
  Steve Chapman
  June 28, 2010
• Filling the Stevens Seat
  Justice John Paul Stevens was no friend to economic liberty. Will Elena Kagan be any better?
  Damon W. Root
  June 25, 2010
• Guns Save Lives
  Why the right to keep and bear arms is essential in a free society
  John Stossel
  June 24, 2010
• Obama Missteps on McChrystal
  Why firing the general is not likely to help.
  Steve Chapman
  June 24, 2010
• Taking State Parks off the State's Books, Part 2
  Do we need a public sector monopoly on the operation of public lands?
  Leonard Gilroy
  June 24, 2010
• If You Love Newspapers, Let Them Go
  A handy guide to kicking your dead tree habit
  Katherine Mangu-Ward, Robby Soave and Jesse Kline
  June 24, 2010
• Is Obama an Anglophobe?
  The British press certainly thinks so
  Michael C. Moynihan
  June 23, 2010
• Obama, Lord of the Rings
  The Gulf oil spill and the temptations of executive power
  David Harsanyi
  June 23, 2010
• Oil Gushes and Power Rushes
  Obama's "$20 billion shakedown" exemplifies his lawlessness.
  Jacob Sullum
  June 23, 2010
• A Feminist Flare-Up
  Is the "Year of Conservative Women" bad for women?
  Cathy Young
  June 22, 2010
• The Slow Fade of Meatspace
  When will this Internet thing catch on?
  Tim Cavanaugh
  June 22, 2010
• Amid Fiscal Pressures, States Move to Privatize Workers Compensation Programs
  Several states aiming to get government out of the workers compensation insurance business
  Leonard Gilroy
  June 21, 2010
• Another Marylander Arrested for Recording the Police
  According to state officials, only on-duty cops have a privacy right in public spaces.
  Radley Balko
  June 21, 2010
• Who’s Afraid of Subliminal Advertising?
  “Behavior placement” in television programming is neither new nor alarming.
  Greg Beato
  June 21, 2010
• An End to Spending Excess
  The case for budgetary restraint
  Steve Chapman
  June 21, 2010
• People of the Book
  Why have libertarians gotten more out of literature than conservatives have?
  Brian Doherty
  June 18, 2010
• Geopolitics and the Pill
  Mistaken prophecies about the impact of oral contraception
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  June 18, 2010
• As the Spill Expands, So Does Presidential Power
  More fallout from the BP oil spill
  Steve Chapman
  June 17, 2010
• The Vanity Tax
  The trouble with the government's new tax on indoor tanning services
  Greg Beato
  June 17, 2010
• Secret Watchdogs
  WikiLeaks and similar sites are a check on institutional misbehavior.
  Jesse Walker
  June 17, 2010
• End the Drug War
  Government goes astray when it tries to protect us from ourselves.
  John Stossel
  June 17, 2010
• Racism, Civil Rights, and Libertarianism
  Lessons from the Rand Paul controversy
  Cathy Young
  June 16, 2010
• Please Don't Save Us
  Journalism doesn't need a bailout
  David Harsanyi
  June 16, 2010
• Razing Arizona
  The chilling effect of campaign subsidies aimed at equalizing speech
  Jacob Sullum
  June 16, 2010
• Chinese Environmentalism: Prestige Over People?
  Why China needs democracy to consolidate its environmental gains.
  Shikha Dalmia
  June 15, 2010
• Free Speech and Guns
  Legal superstar Eugene Volokh on the Bill of Rights in 2010
  Eugene Volokh
  June 15, 2010
• Who’s Liable for the Gulf Oil Spill? You Are.
  Government failure and the Gulf oil spill catastrophe
  Ronald Bailey
  June 15, 2010
• Ideas Having Sex
  How prosperity and innovation exceeded the expectations of John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith
  Matt Ridley
  June 14, 2010
• Why, Oh, Why Doesn't Obama Save Us?
  Why a president who does too much is far more dangerous than one who does too little
  Steve Chapman
  June 14, 2010
• Taken By Regulation
  The 9th Circuit considers the constitutionality of rent control
  Damon W. Root
  June 11, 2010
• Cows, Copy, and Cash
  Citizen journalism meets microfinance
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  June 10, 2010
• Free to Choose
  Why did America prosper while most of the world remains poor?
  John Stossel
  June 10, 2010
• A Rotten Bunch
  What is it with the corruption and dishonesty of Illinois politicians?
  Steve Chapman
  June 10, 2010
• Media Matters (To Itself)
  What Helen Thomas's career has to do with the FTC's push to reinvent journalism.
  Peter Suderman
  June 9, 2010
• Why the Helen Thomas Case Makes Me Nervous
  Should a journalist lose her job over an offensive comment?
  David Harsanyi
  June 9, 2010
• License to Kill
  Obama blurs the line between warfare and summary execution.
  Jacob Sullum
  June 9, 2010
• Conservatives v. Libertarians
  The debate over judicial activism divides former allies.
  Damon W. Root
  June 8, 2010
• The Talking Cure for the Tragedy of the Commons
  Bad things happen when governments keep people from cutting their own deals on resource management
  Ronald Bailey
  June 8, 2010
• The ‘Costs’ of Free Speech
  Consequentialism and the First Amendment don’t mix.
  Matt Welch
  June 7, 2010
• Instant-Runoff Voting Would Be Better Alternative to Open Primary for California Voters
  Proposition 14 won't cure state's political or fiscal problems
  Adam Summers
  June 7, 2010
• Open Primary Would Close Doors to Voter Choice and Participation
  California's Proposition 14 would shut out minor political parties
  Adam Summers
  June 7, 2010
• The Big Ten and Midwestern Identity
  Why college sports should stop messing with the Big Ten
  Steve Chapman
  June 7, 2010
• Georgia's Russian Problem
  The awesomely awful Stalin Museum and other Georgian delights.
  Michael C. Moynihan
  June 4, 2010
• The Global Grapevine
  Sociologist Gary Alan Fine explains what rumors tell us about America's relationship to globalization
  Brian Doherty
  June 4, 2010
• The Persecution of Gilbert Arenas
  How gun prohibitionists and an image-conscious NBA scapegoated a basketball star.
  Daniel Wattenberg
  June 3, 2010
• Fight Bigotry Without Government
  How the free market undermines racism and segregation
  John Stossel
  June 3, 2010
• The Supreme Court Hears the Sounds of Silence
  Why the high court was wrong to limit the scope of the Miranda warning
  Steve Chapman
  June 3, 2010
• Recognizing the Difference Between Taxes and Fees Is Vital to Our Infrastructure
  Why the transportation sector is wrong on the Senate climate change bill
  Robert Poole
  June 2, 2010
• Undisclosed Interests
  Legislators fight corruption by silencing their critics.
  Jacob Sullum
  June 2, 2010
• Do Liberals Suffer from Arrested Moral Development?
  What 10-year-olds and liberals have in common.
  Ronald Bailey
  June 1, 2010
• The Id and the Odyssey
  The lives and deaths of Dennis Hopper
  Jesse Walker
  June 1, 2010
• Obama’s Glamour Problem
  Former reason editor Virginia Postrel on the economics of health care and the intersection of glamour and politics.
  Ted Balaker
  June 1, 2010
• Legalize Immigration
  It's time to focus on letting legal immigrants in.
  Steve Chapman
  May 31, 2010
• The Rise of Consumer-Driven Care
  Will ObamaCare put a stop to the most promising way of controlling health care costs?
  Peter Suderman
  May 28, 2010
• In Defense of Libertarianism
  An open letter to left-liberals
  Terry Michael
  May 28, 2010
• Selling Free Food
  Entrepreneurial foraging is the next phase of greener-than-thou eating
  Greg Beato
  May 27, 2010
• The Blight Stops Here?
  Why New York's highest court should stand up against Columbia University's eminent domain abuse.
  Damon W. Root
  May 27, 2010
• Going "Green"
  Separating environmental fact from fiction
  John Stossel
  May 27, 2010
• Fouling the Gulf—And Much More
  Making the worst of a bad situation
  Steve Chapman
  May 27, 2010
• Meet Your New Commander-in-Geek
  U.S. Cyber Command has no idea why it exists.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  May 26, 2010
• The Rand Paul Distraction
  We've got plenty on our plates without debating the past.
  David Harsanyi
  May 26, 2010
• Paul and the Private Parts
  Bigots are not the only ones hurt by bans on discrimination.
  Jacob Sullum
  May 26, 2010
• Who's Afraid of Synthetic Biology?
  Don't let fears about frankenmicrobes halt promising research.
  Ronald Bailey
  May 25, 2010
• France's Phony Secularism
  Secularists should leave Muslim women and their clothes alone
  Shikha Dalmia
  May 25, 2010
• Life on the Edge
  Denizens of the periphery find ways to escape the predatory state.
  Tom Palmer
  May 25, 2010
• Lessons from the Death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones
  How aggressive SWAT tactics contributed to the death of a 7-year-old Detroit girl.
  Radley Balko
  May 24, 2010
• How to Save Cleveland
  Turning around America’s dying cities is difficult, improbable, and necessary.
  Nick Gillespie
  May 24, 2010
• Unveiling the Truth About Burqa Bans
  In a free society, no one should be forced to integrate
  Steve Chapman
  May 24, 2010
• The Subversive Vending Machine
  The liberatory history of automated commerce
  Radley Balko
  May 21, 2010
• Leave Them Tubes Alone
  The trouble with net neutrality
  David Harsanyi
  May 21, 2010
• What’s a Diploma Worth?
  Americans have always loved college and real estate. So why do these assets need government support?
  Tim Cavanaugh
  May 20, 2010
• Everybody Loves Rand
  Can a single Senate candidate be the savior of the small-government movement?
  Brian Doherty
  May 20, 2010
• Confiscating Your Property
  How asset forfeiture laws violate individual rights
  John Stossel
  May 20, 2010
• How Should Justices Judge?
  Striking a balance between liberal and conservative legal theories
  Steve Chapman
  May 20, 2010
• Pre-Crime Policing
  Allegedly “disgruntled” man has his guns seized, and “voluntarily” surrenders to two SWAT teams and dozens of police officers for a crime that hadn’t been committed
  Radley Balko
  May 19, 2010
• Watch Out, Facebook
  Politicians are ready to regulate the online giant, but the company has much more to fear from the creative destruction of the marketplace.
  Jesse Walker
  May 19, 2010
• And the Enlightened Tyrants Will Lead Us
  Is freedom getting in the way of progress?
  David Harsanyi
  May 19, 2010
• Constitutionally Dangerous
  A preventive detention law shows why we need to confine Congress.
  Jacob Sullum
  May 19, 2010
• Senate Fails Government-Sponsored Rating Agency Reform
  The Franken amendment to the Senate banking bill will make the rating agency problem worse.
  Anthony Randazzo
  May 19, 2010
• Rough Ride in the Middle East
  What is America’s role in the Arab civil war?
  Michael Young
  May 18, 2010
• From Banning Books to Banning Blogs
  How the DISCLOSE Act will restrict free speech
  Jeff Patch and Bradley Smith
  May 18, 2010
• Annotate Everything
  The implications of attaching digital reviews to real world objects
  Greg Beato
  May 18, 2010
• The Kerry-Lieberman Scheme for Carbon Rationing
  The American Power Act will raise energy prices, reduce incomes, cut jobs, and do precious little about climate change.
  Ronald Bailey
  May 18, 2010
• A Libertarian Rebel
  What Ridley Scott's new film gets right about the legend of Robin Hood
  Cathy Young
  May 18, 2010
• Oh, You Mean Those Quotas
  The NYPD stop-and-frisk controversy grows.
  Radley Balko
  May 17, 2010
• Cap and Scam
  The trouble with the new Kerry-Lieberman bill
  David Harsanyi
  May 17, 2010
• The Truth About Gun Sales to Terrorists
  Should suspected terrorists be barred from buying guns?
  Steve Chapman
  May 17, 2010
• The Poet Versus the Prophet
  On standing up to totalitarian Islam
  Mark Goldblatt
  May 14, 2010
• Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?
  A month after passage, ObamaCare is already failing.
  Peter Suderman
  May 14, 2010
• The Wrong Kind of Toyotathon
  The unintended consequences of an unintended acceleration panic
  Ronald Bailey
  May 14, 2010
• Falling For the Myth of Cleggmania
  Why American liberals got the British election so wrong
  Brendan O'Neill
  May 13, 2010
• Elena Kagan on Free Speech, Executive Power, and Judicial Restraint
  Will Obama’s Supreme Court pick show too much deference to the government?
  Damon W. Root
  May 13, 2010
• Leave the Gamblers Alone
  Why can't adults be left to do what we want to do?
  John Stossel
  May 13, 2010
• Congress Accelerates Out of Control
  Understanding that government is not the main source of auto safety improvements
  Steve Chapman
  May 13, 2010
• Txting 2 Cut Gov't
  The GOP launches a new site to allow citizens to vote on defunding pork
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  May 12, 2010
• There's No Lying in Baseball
  Why ideology should have no place in professional sports
  David Harsanyi
  May 12, 2010
• The Bounds of Silence
  Obama’s Supreme Court pick looks wobbly on freedom of speech.
  Jacob Sullum
  May 12, 2010
• Debate: FCC's Net Neutrality 'Third Way'—The Wrong Way to Go
  Steven Titch
  May 11, 2010
• Our Unsustainable Debt
  America is on the verge of financial disaster.
  Veronique de Rugy
  May 11, 2010
• The Bogus Constitutional Arguments of Arizona's Ultra-Restrictionists
  States can't write their own immigration laws
  Shikha Dalmia
  May 11, 2010
• A Drug Raid Goes Viral
  A violent drug raid posted to YouTube catches fire online. But the only thing unusual about the raid is that it was caught on video.
  Radley Balko
  May 11, 2010
• The Pill: The Male Version
  In 1960, the female contraceptive pill changed the world. Would a pill for men do the same?
  Ronald Bailey
  May 11, 2010
• You Don't Know Jack
  What a new documentary gets wrong about Jack Abramoff and the lobbying-industrial complex
  Mark Hemingway
  May 10, 2010
• Paul Ryan: Radical or Sellout?
  The GOP’s rising fiscal policy star is too cautious for radical economic reform yet too radical for his own party.
  Peter Suderman
  May 10, 2010
• Gin, Girls, and Governance
  Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman on personal freedom, free speech, and the state
  Radley Balko
  May 10, 2010
• Meeting Stupidity with Stupidity
  For every action, there is an equal and opposite overreaction
  Steve Chapman
  May 10, 2010
• Notes from the Oslo Freedom Forum
  With Bukovsky, Medvedev, and the exile Chechens
  Michael C. Moynihan
  May 7, 2010
• We Are Out of Money
  American governance won’t begin to inch forward until the political class faces basic facts.
  Matt Welch
  May 7, 2010
• The Future of Transportation Funding
  Four performance-based principles to improve infrastructure funding
  Robert Poole
  May 7, 2010
• The Failure of Surveillance Cameras
  When it comes to preventing and solving crimes, cameras are about as useful as a pet rock.
  Steve Chapman
  May 6, 2010
• Los Angeles Destroys Functioning Businesses in a Recession
  But that’s OK with the city—those businesses are selling medical marijuana
  Brian Doherty
  May 6, 2010
• Unpaid Interns Are Exploited?
  How the Labor Department's new rules will interfere with the rights of contract and free association.
  John Stossel
  May 6, 2010
• The Myth of the Menacing Militias
  Think the Hutaree are the leading edge of a vast new paramilitary threat? Think again.
  Jesse Walker
  May 5, 2010
• Arizona's Un-American Immigration Law
  How the state's harsh new law undermines American exceptionalism
  Shikha Dalmia
  May 5, 2010
• The Global War on Something
  Lessons from the failed Times Square bombing
  David Harsanyi
  May 5, 2010
• Arrest Everybody
  Arizona encourages police to emulate "the toughest sheriff in America."
  Jacob Sullum
  May 5, 2010
• Weighing the Benefits & Costs of Offshore Drilling
  Offshore drilling remains a risk well worth taking, even in the wake of the oil spill disaster.
  Ronald Bailey
  May 4, 2010
• Budgetary Three-Card Monte
  War spending aside, federal budget shenanigans continue.
  Veronique de Rugy
  May 4, 2010
• Congress Didn't Learn Anything From the Financial Crisis
  Dodd bill hands more power to failed regulators and guarantees "too big to fail" bailouts
  Anthony Randazzo
  May 4, 2010
• India's Government by Quota
  The affirmative-action plan to eliminate caste discrimination was supposed to last 10 years. Instead it has become a permanent, and divisive, fact of life.
  Shikha Dalmia
  May 4, 2010
• How Starving Government Still Gets Fat
  Tax cuts aren't enough. We need to reduce the size and scope of government.
  Steve Chapman
  May 3, 2010
• Immigration Isn't the Problem
  The real issue is border security
  David Harsanyi
  May 3, 2010
• Guerrilla Public Service
  An artist surreptitiously improves L.A.'s highways.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 30, 2010
• Lies of the Ethics Industry
  How the champions of "good government" suppress speech and sow cynicism
  Terry Michael
  April 30, 2010
• How Many More Are Innocent?
  America’s 250th DNA exoneration raises questions about how often we send the wrong person to prison.
  Radley Balko
  April 29, 2010
• Like Father, Like Son?
  How Ron Paul's foreign policy views are shaping Rand Paul's Senate race.
  W. James Antle, III
  April 29, 2010
• Everyone Prospers With Free Trade
  Why protectionism will only make things worse
  John Stossel
  April 29, 2010
• Mysteries of an Immigration Law
  Is Arizona's new law a menace?
  Steve Chapman
  April 29, 2010
• Saving the Internet from the FCC
  Why the Web doesn't need a regulator.
  Peter Suderman
  April 28, 2010
• Meddlers At the Gate
  America needs genuine financial reform, not stale populist rhetoric.
  David Harsanyi
  April 28, 2010
• Free Speech for Us
  The Gray Lady’s inconsistent defense of the First Amendment
  Jacob Sullum
  April 28, 2010
• The Revenge of the Brands
  How corporate America turned Naomi Klein’s anti-branding manifesto on its head
  Andrew Potter
  April 27, 2010
• Racism and the Tea Party Movement
  Don't believe the media hype.
  Cathy Young
  April 27, 2010
• Peak Everything?
  Forget peak oil. What about peak lithium, peak neodymium, and peak phosphorus?
  Ronald Bailey
  April 27, 2010
• GM's Phony Bailout Payback
  The company is setting the stage for another taxpayer shakedown
  Shikha Dalmia
  April 27, 2010
• This Land is Your Land; This Land is My Land
  Why do the feds spend so much to make our Western wilderness theirs?
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 26, 2010
• Coming Up Short
  What Michael Lewis’ The Big Short gets right—and wrong—about the financial meltdown
  Anthony Randazzo
  April 26, 2010
• Watching the Detectives
  A nebulous "right" to videotape on-duty cops isn't enough. The right needs to be enforced.
  Radley Balko
  April 26, 2010
• The Wide Net of ‘Material Support’
  The war on terrorism becomes a war on free speech.
  Jacob Sullum
  April 26, 2010
• Make State Programs Compete for Funds
  How "Budgeting for Outcomes" can help California escape its fiscal nightmare
  David Osborne
  April 24, 2010
• School Sucks: The Movie
  A review of The Cartel, a documentary about school choice—and the lack thereof.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 23, 2010
• The American Anti-Revolution
  Revolutionary violence is as American as an apple pie we threw away
  Brian Doherty
  April 23, 2010
• Fit to Judge
  What the Goodwin Liu hearings reveal about the judicial confirmation process
  Damon W. Root
  April 22, 2010
• Myths About Capitalism
  Confronting the biggest lies about American business
  John Stossel
  April 22, 2010
• How Immigration Crackdowns Backfire
  The trouble with Arizona's draconian new law
  Steve Chapman
  April 22, 2010
• Psychedelic Men
  Did LSD kill the ’50s?
  Nick Gillespie
  April 21, 2010
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Gaia
  Is Mother Nature punishing mankind with the Icelandic volcano?
  Brendan O'Neill
  April 21, 2010
• Getting Away With Poker
  How is helping people play a card game like murder?
  Jacob Sullum
  April 21, 2010
• Four Ways to Scale Back Government in Telecom, Internet and Media
  Cut telecom taxes, stop subsidizing PBS
  Steven Titch
  April 21, 2010
• Earth Day Turns 40
  Environmentalist pioneers have had it their way for four decades. It's time for a change.
  Ronald Bailey
  April 20, 2010
• Hash Bash
  Scenes from the 2010 International Cannabis and Hemp Expo
  Greg Beato
  April 20, 2010
• Network Neutrality's Impact on Smartphones
  High-tech and cell phone industries have been thriving without government
  Steven Titch
  April 20, 2010
• Policy Strategies for U.S. Surface Transportation Funding Reauthorization
  Focus on national priorities and restore the user-fees nature of highway taxes
  Robert Poole
  April 20, 2010
• Down the Health Care Wormhole
  How ObamaPelosiCare will saddle future generations with a public policy disaster
  Terry Michael
  April 19, 2010
• The Rise of Decline
  Experts say things are collapsing. Maybe they’re not collapsing fast enough.
  Tim Cavanaugh
  April 19, 2010
• Nursing Our Way Out of a Doctor Shortage
  Why it's time to loosen the regulations on nurse practitioners
  Steve Chapman
  April 19, 2010
• After Tragedy, Can Russia and Poland Reconcile?
  Why the shocking death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski may have changed everything
  Cathy Young
  April 17, 2010
• The Americanization of British Politics
  A defense of television debates and celebrity endorsements
  Michael C. Moynihan
  April 16, 2010
• 24-Hour Party People
  Scenes from a tax day tea party protest
  David Harsanyi
  April 16, 2010
• From Paris Hilton to John Edwards
  Celebrity sex tapes are the signature art form of our age.
  Greg Beato
  April 16, 2010
• Lower and Simplify Taxes!
  It's time to reform the system.
  John Stossel
  April 15, 2010
• Education Reformers Get Schooled
  The trouble with one-size-fits-all solutions
  Steve Chapman
  April 15, 2010
• A Nanny State Assault on Internship Programs
  The trouble with the Labor Department's one-size-fits-all agenda.
  Terry Michael
  April 14, 2010
• The Senate v. The Constitution
  Preparing for the next Supreme Court confirmation battle
  David Harsanyi
  April 14, 2010
• Unfaithful Friend of Liberty
  John Paul Stevens’ spotty record as a defender of individual rights
  Jacob Sullum
  April 14, 2010
• Taking State Parks off the State's Books
  Tap the private sector to take over operations, management of state parks
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 14, 2010
• The Son Also Rises
  Rand Paul’s surprisingly successful campaign for Senate
  W. James Antle, III
  April 13, 2010
• On Being a 21st Century Peasant
  Environmentalist Bill McKibben's new book on the coming global collapse.
  Ronald Bailey
  April 13, 2010
• Don't Let Obama Touch Immigration Reform
  The leading proposal will curtail liberties without making life better for immigrants.
  Shikha Dalmia
  April 13, 2010
• Justice John Paul Stevens' Mixed Record on Civil Liberties
  Stevens wasn't the civil libertarian he's made out to be, but his retirement will still leave the Court more deferential to government power.
  Radley Balko
  April 12, 2010
• L.A.’s Pot Revolution
  How Los Angeles became the “wild West” of medical marijuana—and lived to tell the tale
  Brian Doherty
  April 12, 2010
• Get the Government Out of Airport Screening
  TSA's conflict of interest prevents better, cheaper security
  Robert Poole
  April 12, 2010
• Capitalism for Punks
  Malcolm McLaren, RIP
  Todd Seavey
  April 9, 2010
• Obama’s Education Spending Frenzy
  After the administration’s first year, it’s status quo 20, reform 1.
  Lisa Snell
  April 9, 2010
• Up from Serfdom
  How to restore lost liberties while building on the positive strides America has made since 1776
  Jacob Hornberger
  April 9, 2010
• The Democratic Way of Prohibition
  How the party of pot smokers ended up standing in the way of pharmacological freedom
  Matt Welch
  April 8, 2010
• Injustice System
  Fox News' Judge Andrew Napolitano on repealing the 17th Amendment, "constitutional activism," and his bestselling new book Lies the Government Told You.
  Damon W. Root
  April 8, 2010
• What Am I?
  Understanding what it means to be a libertarian
  John Stossel
  April 8, 2010
• Nuclear Fantasies and Realities
  The truth about Obama's new policy on nuclear weapons
  Steve Chapman
  April 8, 2010
• No Fat Kids!
  Michelle Obama's misguided war on childhood obesity
  David Harsanyi
  April 7, 2010
• Health Care's History of Fiscal Folly
  Expanding health coverage busted state budgets. Will it bust the federal budget too?
  Peter Suderman
  April 7, 2010
• Last Chance for School Reform
  D.C. schools are the worst in the nation, but they may also be ripe for big changes.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 7, 2010
• Smoke a Joint, Lose Your Country
  Rigid deportation rules make a mockery of justice.
  Jacob Sullum
  April 7, 2010
• Cutting Costs for State's Prisons
  Transferring 25,000 inmates to out-of-state private prisons would save California $1.8 billion over five years
  Jon Coupal and Leonard Gilroy
  April 7, 2010
• Up from Slavery
  There's no such thing as a golden age of lost liberty
  David Boaz
  April 6, 2010
• Red Ink and Green Jobs
  Citizens of the Golden State get nervous about carbon rationing plans made in flusher times
  Ronald Bailey
  April 6, 2010
• The 9/14 Presidency
  Barack Obama is operating with the war powers granted George W. Bush three days after the 9/11 attacks.
  Eli Lake
  April 6, 2010
• Traditional Schools Aren't Working. Let's Move Learning Online.
  We already work online, play online, and shop online. Why isn't school online?
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 6, 2010
• Does Bus Transit Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
  Thomas Rubin, Marcy Lowe, Bengu Aytekin and Gary Gereffi Debate Public Transit Buses: A Green Choice Gets Greener
  April 5, 2010
• The NoVa Police Blackout
  Law enforcement agencies in Northern Virginia say you have no right to know what they're doing
  Radley Balko
  April 5, 2010
• The FCC Doesn't Need to Be
  Why we should abolish the Federal Communications Commission
  Peter Suderman
  April 5, 2010
• Obama's "Unilateral Disarmament" is Neither
  Why the only thing worse than a world with nuclear weapons is a world without them.
  Steve Chapman
  April 5, 2010
• Cocktails Cops Can't Resist
  Bartenders revive classic cocktails. The law responds by reviving classic crackdowns.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 2, 2010
• Red America, White Power
  Is the Tea Party movement motivated by race hatred?
  Michael C. Moynihan
  April 1, 2010
• What We Know That Isn't So
  The dangers of junk science
  John Stossel
  April 1, 2010
• Big Brother on Your Trail
  Who's tracking your cell phone?
  Steve Chapman
  April 1, 2010
• Sean Penn, Chavista
  Understanding the Hollywood star's fatuous defense of Hugo Chávez
  Antonio Rumbos
  March 31, 2010
• Obama’s Neverending Afghan Adventure
  If we never quit, then we’ll never leave
  Brian Doherty
  March 31, 2010
• It's Not You, Mitt—It's Me
  The trouble with Mitt Romney
  David Harsanyi
  March 31, 2010
• The Disappearing Blood Stain
  How New Orleans prosecutors nearly killed a man by withholding evidence
  Jacob Sullum
  March 31, 2010
• Ridding the Earth of Nukes, One Treaty at a Time
  President Obama takes significant steps toward global nuclear disarmament
  Ronald Bailey
  March 30, 2010
• An Act of Hubris
  The trouble with ObamaCare
  Cathy Young
  March 30, 2010
• Too Much Fun
  Caffeinated alcoholic drinks draw the feds’ wrath for candor in advertising.
  Greg Beato
  March 30, 2010
• Masters of Distraction
  Are Republicans "aiding and abetting terrorism" against Democrats over the health care bill?
  David Harsanyi
  March 29, 2010
• Progress and Challenges in Mississippi
  Disgraced medical examiner Steven Hayne's career appears to be over, but the state has much more work to do.
  Radley Balko
  March 29, 2010
• Little Grrrls Lost
  Angry, anti-capitalist punk girl bands power the U.S. economy.
  Tim Cavanaugh
  March 29, 2010
• In the Drug War, Drugs Are Winning
  The case for legalizing marijuana
  Steve Chapman
  March 29, 2010
• States' Rights Versus Obamacare
  States look to sue over health care mandates
  Samuel Staley
  March 26, 2010
• How to Oppose ObamaCare
  What critics of the president's health care plan can learn from Gandhi's methods of nonviolent resistance
  Shikha Dalmia
  March 26, 2010
• ACORN's Original Sin
  Critics of the expiring activist group say it was driven by the vision of Saul Alinsky. If only that were true.
  Jesse Walker
  March 26, 2010
• The Entitlement Rip-Off
  How unfunded liabilities drain the treasury
  John Stossel
  March 25, 2010
• Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act
  How prevailing wage laws benefit unions at the expense of taxpayers
  Damon W. Root
  March 24, 2010
• Nancy Pelosi: Jobs Junkie
  The Speaker of the House just can't stop talking about jobs
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  March 24, 2010
• The Mandate and Mug Clause
  Where is the constitutional authority for ObamaCare?
  David Harsanyi
  March 24, 2010
• Don't Buy It
  The crazy constitutional logic of the individual health insurance mandate
  Jacob Sullum
  March 24, 2010
• A Growing Concern: Bank Taxers Without Borders
  A global bank tax would be bad no matter how you slice it
  Marius Gustavson
  March 24, 2010
• Don’t Fear the E-Reader
  Books are evolving, not dying.
  Peter Suderman
  March 23, 2010
• Another Senseless Drug War Death
  Stunning developments in the 2009 police shooting of Georgia pastor Jonathan Ayers
  Radley Balko
  March 23, 2010
• Health Care 2020
  A dispatch from the future on the effects of health care reform
  Ronald Bailey
  March 23, 2010
• Missing the Story
  Where's Wikipedia in NYU's list of the decade's top journalism?
  Greg Beato
  March 23, 2010
• Bailing Out Big Brother
  Media criticism goes from rebelling against media oligarchs to handing them a lifeline.
  Matt Welch
  March 22, 2010
• The Lie of Fiscal Responsibility
  Health care bill worsens nation's financial future
  Peter Suderman
  March 22, 2010
• Education Lessons Are Lost on Obama
  Not every failure occurs in the classroom
  Steve Chapman
  March 22, 2010
• Actually, The Process Does Matter
  Why the Democrats are wrong to "deem and pass" the health care bill
  David Harsanyi
  March 19, 2010
• Louis Brandeis’ Partial Justice
  How the famous jurist shaped—and misshaped—American law
  Damon W. Root
  March 19, 2010
• How to Repopulate Cleveland And Other Once-Great American Cities
  Fix education, promote bottom-up redevelopment, and leverage the value of the private sector
  Anthony Randazzo
  March 19, 2010
• In for a Dime, In for a Dollar
  Why it's time to change the faces on our money
  Steve Chapman
  March 18, 2010
• The Obama "Narrative" Narrative
  Imagine what the president could do if only he had a better bumper sticker!
  Matt Welch
  March 18, 2010
• Politicians Smother Cities
  How to bring life back to great American cities
  John Stossel
  March 18, 2010
• The Death of Fiscal Federalism
  It’s been a long time since economic policy was forged in the states
  Veronique de Rugy
  March 17, 2010
• Death in Juarez
  The bloody consequences of America's pharmacological intolerance
  Jacob Sullum
  March 17, 2010
• How Cities Can Take Care of Businesses
  Uncovering problems with tax codes and licensing regimes
  Anthony Randazzo
  March 17, 2010
• The Wrong Kind of Toyotathon
  The unintended consequences of an unintended acceleration panic
  Ronald Bailey
  March 16, 2010
• ‘You Cut Spending’
  Former New Mexico governor and possible presidential candidate Gary Johnson talks about Obamanomics, ending the drug war, and climbing the highest mountains.
  Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie
  March 16, 2010
• Pre-Crime Policing
  Allegedly “disgruntled” man has his guns seized, and “voluntarily” surrenders to two SWAT teams and dozens of police officers for a crime that hadn’t been committed
  Radley Balko
  March 16, 2010
• Dying People Shouldn't Have to be Beggars
  It's time to consider the economics of organ transplants
  Steve Chapman
  March 15, 2010
• The ObamaCare Quagmire
  Launching an optional war against the American health care system will sink the Democratic Party
  Shikha Dalmia
  March 12, 2010
• Mass. Hysteria
  Scenes from the revolutionary takeover of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat
  Michael C. Moynihan
  March 12, 2010
• Five Lies About the American Economy
  The Obama team’s favorite slices of fiscal baloney
  Tim Cavanaugh
  March 11, 2010
• The Right to Work
  How occupational licensing laws restrict liberty
  John Stossel
  March 11, 2010
• Enhancing Democracy by Banning Speech
  The misguided liberal response to Citizens United
  Steve Chapman
  March 11, 2010
• The Children of George Metesky
  Not every terrorist is a product of the left or the right.
  Jesse Walker
  March 10, 2010
• Repeal ObamaCare? Unlikely
  Don't count on the GOP to clean up Obama's health care mess
  David Harsanyi
  March 10, 2010
• Insurers Gone Wild!
  Why health insurers welcome Obama’s plan to tame them
  Jacob Sullum
  March 10, 2010
• Deflating China’s Bubble
  Damned if they do, damned if they don’t
  Marius Gustavson and Anthony Randazzo
  March 10, 2010
• Sea Turtle Tastes Like Veal
  Can eating endangered species help save them?
  Ronald Bailey
  March 9, 2010
• Obama and the L-Word
  The president’s habit of telling untruths
  Matt Welch
  March 9, 2010
• A Sorry Complaint About Obama
  Does being American mean never having to say you're sorry?
  Steve Chapman
  March 8, 2010
• The Other Broken Windows Fallacy
  The NYPD is accused of under-reporting serious crimes while manufacturing petty ones.
  Radley Balko
  March 8, 2010
• Bulldozing the American Dream
  It’s time to kick Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of the housing market
  Anthony Randazzo
  March 8, 2010
• Profane, Pointless...and Profound
  The history Gimme Something Better charts punk's cultural triumph.
  Nick Gillespie
  March 5, 2010
• Russia's Winter Games of Discontent
  Why the Russians are so upset about the 2010 Winter Olympics
  Cathy Young
  March 5, 2010
• Chicago's Pointless Handgun Ban
  Why draconian gun control laws never work
  Steve Chapman
  March 4, 2010
• Busting the Well-Endowed
  It's time to cut federal funding for the arts
  Shikha Dalmia
  March 4, 2010
• The Wrong Policy at the Wrong Time
  The problem with the Value-Added Tax
  Veronique de Rugy
  March 4, 2010
• Guns for All, Privileges or Immunities for None
  The hearings in McDonald v. Chicago promise an unrevolutionary victory—but still an important one
  Brian Doherty
  March 4, 2010
• Keep Your Laws Off My Body
  The case for legalizing drugs, prostitution, organ sales, and other consensual acts.
  John Stossel
  March 4, 2010
• Going Into Debt to Finance Highways
  Greatly expanded use of tolling, not availability payment financing, should be the norm
  Robert Poole
  March 3, 2010
• Getting Serious About Pension Reform in Atlanta
  How to fix the city's massive pension problem without tax increases
  Adam Summers
  March 3, 2010
• Created or Saved or Estimated or Assumed
  The Congressional Budget Office's predetermined stimulus reports
  Peter Suderman
  March 3, 2010
• Two Steps Forward, No Steps Back
  The latest version of ObamaCare
  David Harsanyi
  March 3, 2010
• Carry On
  Does the Second Amendment apply outside the home?
  Jacob Sullum
  March 3, 2010
• Cap and Trade is Dead
  Long live cap and trade.
  Ronald Bailey
  March 2, 2010
• Federal Dollars for Federal Roads
  Spending the HighwayTrust Fund only on highways, as intended, would produce 25 percent boost in highway investment
  Robert Poole
  March 2, 2010
• The Five Varieties of Bad Political Thinking
  Understanding what's wrong with politics today
  Michael Weiss
  March 2, 2010
• 4.5 SWAT Raids Per Day
  Maryland's SWAT transparency bill produces its first disturbing results
  Radley Balko
  March 1, 2010
• A Tale of Two Libertarianisms
  A new book of unpublished critiques by Murray Rothbard reveals a divide in the larger libertarian project
  Brian Doherty
  March 1, 2010
• Safe Toyotas, and Other Surprises
  Driving is a hazardous activity, but that's rarely because of unsafe cars.
  Steve Chapman
  March 1, 2010
• The Myth of the Recovery
  The White House claims the economy is on the mend. That’s a fantasy.
  Anthony Randazzo
  March 1, 2010
• Dressed for Success
  Business casual and the evolution of the American workplace
  Greg Beato
  February 26, 2010
• Getting the 14th Amendment Right
  The Chicago gun case and the fight for economic liberty
  Damon W. Root
  February 26, 2010
• A Bipartisan Solution to ObamaCare
  Why Republicans should call their own summit
  Shikha Dalmia
  February 26, 2010
• Whose Body Is It?
  The government should "protect" us less and respect our liberty more.
  John Stossel
  February 25, 2010
• Obama Embraces Nixonomics
  The folly of imposing wage and price controls
  Steve Chapman
  February 25, 2010
• Who Will Watch The Watchmen?
  An interview with National Journal's Shane Harris, author of a new book on the rise of the surveillance state
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  February 25, 2010
• Weaponizing Mozart
  How Britain is using classical music as a form of social control
  Brendan O'Neill
  February 24, 2010
• The Paulpocalypse
  A longtime Ron Paul watcher wonders if his CPAC victory is the dawn of a new age, or the beginning of the end
  Brian Doherty
  February 24, 2010
• Fight the Power
  The unfulfilled promise of “constitutional conservatism”
  Jacob Sullum
  February 24, 2010
• Clemency Under Fire
  A parolee turned cop killer sparks an ill-informed debate about pardons and commutations.
  Radley Balko
  February 23, 2010
• The Politics of Giving
  The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Adam Meyerson talks about the future of charity, power grabs by the IRS, and pressures to create a nonprofit cartel.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  February 23, 2010
• Everyone Who Knows What They're Talking About Agrees with Me
  And everyone who doesn't wears a tin foil hat
  Ronald Bailey
  February 23, 2010
• A Libyan Charm Offensive
  To the shores of Tripoli with the son of Qaddafi
  Michael C. Moynihan
  February 22, 2010
• Is Texas About To Execute Another Innocent Man?
  State officials would rather kill a prisoner than give him a DNA test.
  Radley Balko
  February 22, 2010
• Immigration and Crime
  There's nothing to fear from illegal immigrants
  Steve Chapman
  February 22, 2010
• A Conspiracy So Immense
  What a new history of conspiracy theories tells us about Birthers and Truthers
  Michael C. Moynihan
  February 19, 2010
• Wake Me Up When Men Get Pregnant
  Biological transhumanism starts the 21st century on the wrong foot.
  Tim Cavanaugh
  February 19, 2010
• The System Isn't Broken
  Partisanship is par for the course
  David Harsanyi
  February 19, 2010
• The Visible Persuaders
  Advertising as a medium for truth telling
  Greg Beato
  February 19, 2010
• Will Bernanke’s Exit Strategy Work?
  The Fed’s plan to unwind its current policies will be harder than Bernanke thinks
  Marius Gustavson
  February 19, 2010
• Our Afghan "Government in a Box"
  Did Gen. McChrystal reveal more than he intended?
  Terry Michael
  February 18, 2010
• Education Is Too Important for a Government Monopoly
  It's time to let parents choose
  John Stossel
  February 18, 2010
• The Real Reason for Obama's Unpopularity
  Every honeymoon ends
  Steve Chapman
  February 18, 2010
• Getting Government Out of the Parking Business
  D.C., Richmond and other cities can benefit from parking privatization, as Chicago has
  Leonard Gilroy
  February 17, 2010
• Climate Crackup
  A breakdown in Copenhagen saves a divided world from carbon rationing.
  Ronald Bailey
  February 17, 2010
• Who Doesn't Trust Science Now?
  Weird weather, Climategate, and the dangers of faith-based science
  David Harsanyi
  February 17, 2010
• Flashbangs Under Fire
  It's time to stop using stun grenades during drug raids.
  Radley Balko
  February 17, 2010
• List Price
  The war on terrorism becomes a war on free speech.
  Jacob Sullum
  February 17, 2010
• Congress’ Phony Price Tags
  Legislators have a lousy track record of keeping costs anywhere near their initial projections.
  Veronique de Rugy
  February 16, 2010
• The Presidential Commission on Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life
  Obama's new bioethics czar just wants us all to get along.
  Ronald Bailey
  February 16, 2010
• The EPA’s Carbon Footprint
  Federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions will impose new controls on millions of Americans.
  Jonathan H. Adler
  February 15, 2010
• Obama Spurns Gun Control
  Why the anti-gun lobby is disappointed with Obama's first year
  Steve Chapman
  February 15, 2010
• Let the Private Sector Compete to Provide Public Services and Watch the Savings Roll In
  Outsourcing and managed competition are proven common-sense, nonpartisan strategies for reducing costs and improving services
  Leonard Gilroy and Adam Summers
  February 14, 2010
• Passing ObamaCare Won't Make It More Popular
  The public knows what's in the bill—and they aren't buying
  Peter Suderman
  February 12, 2010
• Reading a Sculpture
  Art interpretation and climate change.
  Jesse Walker
  February 12, 2010
• The Fable of Market Meritocracy
  Markets don't reward smart people. They reward value.
  Shikha Dalmia
  February 12, 2010
• Don't Break the Banks
  Why Obama's plan to reinstate Glass-Steagall is a terrible idea
  Anthony Randazzo
  February 12, 2010
• A National Infrastructure Bank Is a Good Idea, In Theory
  To work, transportation and infrastructure projects need to be funded on merit
  Robert Poole
  February 11, 2010
• Who Killed Apartheid?
  Was it the African National Congress' armed struggle that ended white rule in South Africa? Or was it nonviolent civic resistance?
  Jesse Walker
  February 11, 2010
• Palin Exposes the Tea Partiers' True Colors
  Why trading liberty for security is not consistent with a limited government philosophy.
  Steve Chapman
  February 11, 2010
• High-Speed Rail Plans Are Misconceived
  What problem are these trains solving? Who will pay the annual operating costs?
  Robert Poole
  February 11, 2010
• A Rand Revival
  Understanding the best—and worst—of Ayn Rand's philosophy
  Cathy Young
  February 11, 2010
• Hurtling Down the Road to Serfdom
  Do we want a culture of takers or makers?
  John Stossel
  February 11, 2010
• Back to the Drawing Board
  Democratic fantasies face the bracing slap of reality.
  Matt Welch
  February 8, 2010
• All the President's Budget Assumptions
  The 2011 budget contains more rosy scenarios than a romance novel.
  Veronique de Rugy
  February 4, 2010
• Big Government's Cronies
  The real reason politicians like complicated tax and regulatory schemes
  John Stossel
  February 4, 2010
• Fiscal Stimulus is Buying Trouble
  Why government spending hasn't brought the economy around
  Steve Chapman
  February 4, 2010
• Fiscal Fraud—or Frugality?
  Runaway spending is a bipartisan problem
  Steve Chapman
  February 1, 2010
• Our "So-Called" Leader
  The trouble with Obama's State of the Union
  David Harsanyi
  January 29, 2010
• Tracking Taxpayer Capital: Recovery.org vs. Recovery.gov
  Private sector can step in to fill government's transparency gap
  Eric Gillespie
  January 29, 2010
• Public-Private Partnerships for Local Governments: The Sandy Springs Model
  Imagine starting a new city of over 90,000 people with only two employees. We did it.
  Oliver Porter
  January 29, 2010
• Chicago's Parking Meter Lease: A Win-Win-Win for Motorists, Taxpayers and the City
  Asset concession brings fiscal, operational, environmental benefits
  Gene Saffold
  January 29, 2010
• We Have to Do Better: Fiscal Challenges Demand Creative Government
  Interview with Indianapolis Mayor Gregory Ballard
  Leonard Gilroy
  January 29, 2010
• Look Before You Leap Into Privatization: Florida's Council on Efficient Government Sets a New Standard in Transparency, Due Diligence in Privatization and Contracting Decisions
  Interview with Henry Garrigo, former Director, Florida Council on Efficient Government
  Leonard Gilroy
  January 29, 2010
• Lifting All Boats in Louisiana: A Vision for Transforming Louisiana's Education System
  Interview with Paul Pastorek, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education
  Lisa Snell
  January 29, 2010
• Streamlining Louisiana: Driving Government Reform in an Era of Fiscal Crisis
  Interview with Angele Davis, Louisiana Commissioner of Administration
  Leonard Gilroy
  January 29, 2010
• Good Roads Sooner: Public-Private Partnerships in New South Wales
  Australians will pay tolls to get a road now rather than face a decade or more stuck in traffic
  Bob Carr
  January 29, 2010
• The Public Enterprise System: Managing for Better Value in Government
  The Commission for a New Georgia—Business Meets Bureaucracy
  Sonny Perdue
  January 29, 2010
• Race to the Checkout Line
  What the National Grocers Association's Best Bagger Championship says about work and competition
  Greg Beato
  January 28, 2010
• It's the Economy, Stupid
  Understanding Obama's plummeting approval ratings
  Steve Chapman
  January 28, 2010
• Republicans: Take The Reins
  Democrats botched health care reform. Now is your chance to turn it around.
  Shikha Dalmia
  January 27, 2010
• TSA’s Airport Security Is Always a Step Behind
  How a risk-based approach would focus resources on terrorists trying to bring down planes
  Adrian Moore
  January 27, 2010
• Obama's Rhetorical Retreat
  Has reality finally caught up with the president?
  David Harsanyi
  January 27, 2010
• Overpaying for Green Power
  Americans are adopting a failed type of clean energy subsidy—the feed-in tariff—just as Europeans are abandoning it.
  Ronald Bailey
  January 26, 2010
• Advice to Barack Obama by Two People Who Didn't Vote for Him (or John McCain)
  But just might if he ever got serious about governing.
  Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie
  January 26, 2010
• Exiting New Jersey's Fiscal Nightmare
  Can Chris Christie reform the Garden State?
  Eileen Norcross
  January 22, 2010
• Who Needs Energy Independence?
  Let free trade and the free market work.
  John Stossel
  January 21, 2010
• The Cost of Doing Nothing
  How ObamaCare revived the debate over the use and abuse of the Commerce Clause
  Damon W. Root
  January 21, 2010
• Health Insurance by Command
  The trouble with the individual mandate
  Steve Chapman
  January 21, 2010
• Three Reasons Why The Dems Are in Big, Big Trouble. And One Reason Why They're Not.
  What Obama—and the GOP—should learn from the Coakley defeat and slumping poll
  Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
  January 20, 2010
• A Promise Worth Breaking
  Obama’s health insurance tax doesn’t go far enough.
  Jacob Sullum
  January 20, 2010
• Obama Follows in Bush's Footsteps on Climate Change
  The era of massive global climate meetings may finally be ending. Thank goodness.
  Ronald Bailey
  January 19, 2010
• Proposed City Water Grab Draining Scottsdale Tax Dollars
  Unnecessary move bad for taxpayers
  Leonard Gilroy
  January 15, 2010
• The Lou Dobbs Option
  The Senate health care bill's anti-undocumented-immigrant provisions ought to be deal-breakers for civil libertarians
  Shikha Dalmia
  January 15, 2010
• Bankrupting the Senate's Too Big to Fail Agenda
  How reforming the bankruptcy code is the best path to ending too-big-to-fail policy
  Anthony Randazzo
  January 15, 2010
• Let's Take the "Crony" Out of "Crony Capitalism"
  It's time to choose the free market
  John Stossel
  January 14, 2010
• Beware Of The ObamaCare Revolution
  If the bill passes next month, the U.S. health care system will face chronic political warfare
  Shikha Dalmia
  January 13, 2010
• Five Reasons Why Libertarians Shouldn't Hate Government
  Plus, Five Big Projects That Went Well and Five That Were Disasters
  William D. Eggers and John O'Leary
  January 13, 2010
• Who Wants to Tax a Millionaire?
  The “millionaire’s tax” will affect more people than you think.
  Veronique de Rugy
  January 13, 2010
• Faux Recovery
  Don't believe the hype about green jobs
  David Harsanyi
  January 13, 2010
• Class War
  How public servants became our masters
  Steven Greenhut
  January 12, 2010
• That Other War
  Reagan-era drug war rhetoric is still with us, and so is the accompanying collateral damage.
  Radley Balko
  January 11, 2010
• P.C. Never Died
  Think campus censorship disappeared in the 1990s? Guess again.
  Greg Lukianoff
  January 11, 2010
• Government Spending and the Zero Sum Game
  Why won’t people who love to make zero-sum arguments about the economy apply their own lessons to government spending?
  Matt Welch
  January 8, 2010
• Who Is Wesley Mouch?
  Why Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged matters today
  John Stossel
  January 7, 2010
• The Naked Truth About Airport Scanners
  Are privacy and security compatible?
  Steve Chapman
  January 7, 2010
• The War Over Neutrality
  How the tech industry learned to stop worrying and love the FCC.
  Peter Suderman
  January 6, 2010
• Flying With the Enemy
  It's time to get serious about airline security
  David Harsanyi
  January 6, 2010
• Don't Fear The 2010s!
  Embrace the coming decade's new distractions and overblown worries.
  Nick Gillespie
  January 5, 2010

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