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• 2010: The Year John Cage Broke
  Amateur producers and unexpected music
  Jesse Walker
  December 30, 2010
• The Year in Books
  Reason staffers pick the best books of 2010
  December 30, 2010
• Please Stop "Helping" Us
  How consumer protection laws harm consumers
  John Stossel
  December 30, 2010
• Follow the Bouncing Buck
  The year's highlights in blame shifting
  Jacob Sullum
  December 29, 2010
• Transportation Policy in a New Fiscal Era
  Don’t mourn Build America Bonds
  Robert Poole
  December 29, 2010
• Carbon Rationing By Other Means
  After Congress fails to regulate greenhouse gasses, the president hands the job over to the EPA
  Ronald Bailey
  December 28, 2010
• Freedom to Fail
  Jonathan Franzen ponders the glories and limits of American freedom.
  Peter Suderman
  December 27, 2010
• The Death Penalty On the Wane
  Is it time to abolish capital punishment?
  Steve Chapman
  December 27, 2010
• Penny Reign
  America’s least valuable coin endures.
  Tim Cavanaugh
  December 24, 2010
• Culture Shock
  How joy buzzers, trick chairs, and other prank devices helped manufacture the post-industrial American male
  Greg Beato
  December 23, 2010
• Uncle Sam Will Help Buy You an Alpaca
  How the government produces negative unintended consequences
  John Stossel
  December 23, 2010
• Julian Assange, Feminism, and Rape
  How the WikiLeaks founder shined the spotlight on the debate over sex, rape, and consent.
  Cathy Young
  December 22, 2010
• The Never-Ending "Business of Centralization"
  What’s wrong with placing a few limits on federal power?
  Damon W. Root
  December 22, 2010
• Is Julian Assange a Journalist?
  For First Amendment purposes, it doesn't matter.
  Jacob Sullum
  December 22, 2010
• What the Frack!
  The war over a natural gas production technology flames up
  Ronald Bailey
  December 21, 2010
• Curbing Excellence
  The trouble with American education
  Steve Chapman
  December 20, 2010
• Still Rotten
  Five years after the "cartoon crisis," the precarious state of free speech in Denmark
  Lars Hvidberg and Jacob Mchangama
  December 20, 2010
• Beyond Bars
  A new project has conservatives thinking more seriously about crime.
  Radley Balko
  December 20, 2010
• No Labels, and the Ideology of Post-Ideology
  Why you should reach for your wallet whenever people near power claim to be post-political problem solvers
  Matt Welch
  December 20, 2010
• Space Cheese and Other Breakthroughs
  Good news from SpaceX as NASA struggles to make room for private space companies.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  December 17, 2010
• Marked for Life
  Constitutionally protected tattoos
  Damon W. Root
  December 17, 2010
• Reason and Free Speech
  A primer and a call to arms!
  Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
  December 17, 2010
• The First War on Terror
  What the fight against anarchism tells us about the fight against radical Islam
  Brian Doherty
  December 17, 2010
• Face the Flag
  The surprising history of the Pledge of Allegiance
  Greg Beato
  December 16, 2010
• Why Do People Believe in Fantasies?
  It's good to be skeptical. It's really good to be skeptical about government.
  John Stossel
  December 16, 2010
• An Unhealthy Mandate
  Does ObamaCare violate the Constitution?
  Steve Chapman
  December 16, 2010
• Libertarian Support of the Tax Compromise
  Why libertarians should be uneasily in support of extending the Bush-era tax laws
  Anthony Randazzo
  December 16, 2010
• Our Leaky World
  WikiLeaks is only the beginning.
  Jesse Walker
  December 15, 2010
• Feel Free to Label Me
  The absurdity of the "No Labels" movement
  David Harsanyi
  December 15, 2010
• Clause Escape
  Are you committing interstate commerce by doing nothing?
  Jacob Sullum
  December 15, 2010
• Obama's Obesity War
  It's time for some self-restraint.
  Cathy Young
  December 14, 2010
• Cancun Climate Change Breakthrough Greatly Exaggerated
  Climate change negotiators agree to meet again next year in Durban. And that's pretty much all they agree on.
  Ronald Bailey
  December 14, 2010
• Assange's Extremist Employees
  Why is WikiLeaks employing a well-known Holocaust denier and his disgraced son?
  Michael C. Moynihan
  December 14, 2010
• The Municipal Debt Bubble
  As cities and states boost their debts by 800 percent, a housing-like crisis looms.
  Veronique de Rugy
  December 14, 2010
• I’ll Show You My Genome. Will You Show Me Yours?
  Our science correspondent reveals his genetic code. Soon you will too.
  Ronald Bailey
  December 13, 2010
• Net Neutrality Plan Looks Like Internet Regulation for Regulation’s Sake
  Genuine fears of derailing the technology sector have reduced the FCC to hedging on regulations for their own sake
  Steven Titch
  December 13, 2010
• The SWAT Team Would Like to See Your Alcohol Permit
  How police use regulatory inspections to conduct warrantless searches
  Radley Balko
  December 13, 2010
• Left and Right, Fooled by Obama
  Is the president really a liberal?
  Steve Chapman
  December 13, 2010
• Watching What You Eat
  Why has the USDA been plumping up the food stamps program like a factory chicken?
  Greg Beato
  December 10, 2010
• Cancunhagen
  Fourth dispatch from the United Nations Climate Change conference in Cancun
  Ronald Bailey
  December 10, 2010
• Obama’s Show Trials
  Why prosecute a terrorism suspect if life imprisonment is the only possible outcome?
  Jacob Sullum
  December 9, 2010
• You Must Get Gun Range Training. But You Can’t Get Gun Range Training.
  Shaping the future of the Second Amendment in post-McDonald Chicago
  Brian Doherty
  December 9, 2010
• Why Do the Poor Stay Poor?
  Prosperity is impossible without property rights.
  John Stossel
  December 9, 2010
• Cancun Crunch Time
  Third dispatch from the United Nations Climate Change conference in Cancun
  Ronald Bailey
  December 9, 2010
• Robert Gates' Inconspicuous Virtues
  Replacing the defense secretary won't be easy
  Steve Chapman
  December 9, 2010
• Laying Cable with Barry and Dub
  If WikiLeaks bores anybody to death, will Julian Assange be guilty of murder?
  Tim Cavanaugh
  December 8, 2010
• And This Is the Thanks Obama Gets?
  Progressives abandon the president
  David Harsanyi
  December 8, 2010
• Cancun Climate Platitudes and Predictions
  Second dispatch from the United Nations Climate Change conference in Cancun
  Ronald Bailey
  December 8, 2010
• A Leaner Leviathan
  Unfortunately, balancing the federal budget won't require radical change.
  Jacob Sullum
  December 8, 2010
• Olbermann, Assange, and the Holocaust Denier
  When you want to believe, you'll believe anything.
  Michael C. Moynihan
  December 7, 2010
• A Cold War Relic
  Why the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is not a priority
  Cathy Young
  December 7, 2010
• Cancun Climate Change Shakedown
  First dispatch from the United Nations Climate Change conference in Cancun
  Ronald Bailey
  December 7, 2010
• The War on Cameras
  It has never been easier—or more dangerous—to record the police.
  Radley Balko
  December 7, 2010
• The Permanent Nongoverning Minority
  The 2010 elections showed that unpredictable grassroots politics are here to stay.
  Matt Welch
  December 6, 2010
• The Continuing Saga of Steven Hayne
  The latest developments in the story of America's most industrious medical examiner
  Radley Balko
  December 6, 2010
• Up from Homophobia
  It's time to let gays serve openly in the military.
  Steve Chapman
  December 6, 2010
• How to Balance the Budget Without Raising Taxes
  The 19 Percent Solution
  Nick Gillespie and Veronique de Rugy
  December 5, 2010
• Story Time With David Brooks and Paul Ryan
  The wonky legislator and the cerebral columnist battle over the big-government narrative.
  Peter Suderman
  December 3, 2010
• The WikiLeaks Debate
  Julian Assange is neither a hero nor a villain.
  Ken Kurson
  December 3, 2010
• Gay Marriage and the Law
  The battle over Proposition 8 inches closer to the Supreme Court
  Damon W. Root
  December 2, 2010
• The Folly of Attacking Iran
  Haven't we learned anything from the Iraq war?
  Steve Chapman
  December 2, 2010
• Making Parks Decent Again
  How the private sector can save public parks
  John Stossel
  December 2, 2010
• Congress Forces Millions to Cut Up Their Credit Cards
  The changing shape of plastic in America
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  December 1, 2010
• End the Lame-Duck Sessions
  It's time to reform Congress.
  David Harsanyi
  December 1, 2010
• Naked Truth
  Are travelers happy to bare all in the name of homeland security?
  Jacob Sullum
  December 1, 2010
• The Eleventh Commandment: Punish Free Riders
  Religion and the evolutionary origin of cooperation
  Ronald Bailey
  November 30, 2010
• In Defense of Economic Growth
  An interview with Ferraris for All author Daniel Ben-Ami
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  November 30, 2010
• The Appearance of Corruption
  Both Theodore Roosevelt and John McCain tried to save their reputations by pushing campaign finance regulations.
  Jacob Sullum
  November 30, 2010
• Transportation Projects Aren't Being Chosen on the Merits
  The future of the federal surface transportation program
  Robert Poole
  November 30, 2010
• The Conquering Bureaucracy
  A new history of the FDA shows how regulators entrenched and extended their own power.
  Keith E. Whittington
  November 29, 2010
• Covering Their Assets
  After being exposed for violating the state's forfeiture law, Indiana officials scramble to codify their abuses.
  Radley Balko
  November 29, 2010
• Did the Midterms Matter?
  A cynical (or realistic) take on the change in D.C. power.
  Nick Gillespie
  November 29, 2010
• A Simple Way to Improve Medicare
  End the "doc fix" and allow balance-billing
  Jeffrey A. Singer
  November 25, 2010
• The Case Against Motorcycle Helmet Laws
  This is not a public health issue.
  Steve Chapman
  November 25, 2010
• It's About Time We Politicized the Fed
  Monetary policy deserves public scrutiny.
  David Harsanyi
  November 24, 2010
• Loco Over Four Loko
  The moral panic behind the ban
  Jacob Sullum
  November 24, 2010
• Rare Earth Ruckus
  Are we at the mercy of China's mercantilist mandarins?
  Ronald Bailey
  November 23, 2010
• The Well-Pilfered Clavier
  Does copyright protection prevent creators from making stuff and selling it?
  Tim Cavanaugh
  November 23, 2010
• Doctors’ Orders
  The government’s war on medical “price fixing” squelches speech without helping consumers.
  S.M. Oliva
  November 22, 2010
• The Cake Is a Lie
  A prosecutor pulls a preposterous stunt in a murder case and gets rewarded for it.
  Radley Balko
  November 22, 2010
• Dave Nolan, R.I.P.
  Remembering the great libertarian activist and the man who inspired "the world's smallest political quiz"
  Robert Poole
  November 22, 2010
• Will Republicans Get Serious on Spending?
  Don't count on it.
  Steve Chapman
  November 22, 2010
• What Can Rand Paul Do?
  The Tea Party libertarian will likely prove a more effective figurehead than senator.
  Brian Doherty
  November 19, 2010
• Rap and Metal on Planet Islam
  The booming voice of pent-up Middle Eastern anger
  James M. Dorsey
  November 19, 2010
• The Sari Doesn't Need Saving
  Why globalization is good for this gorgeous Indian outfit
  Shikha Dalmia
  November 19, 2010
• Going Broke by Fractions of a Percent
  Ben Bernanke should stop paying interest on reserves
  Tim Cavanaugh
  November 18, 2010
• Natural Is Not Always Better
  What's so great about "free-range" beef?
  John Stossel
  November 18, 2010
• Time to Tear Down Wrigley Field?
  Why the Cubs shouldn't receive any stadium welfare
  Steve Chapman
  November 18, 2010
• A Techno-Agrarian Manifesto
  Is vertical farming the future of American agriculture?
  Greg Beato
  November 17, 2010
• No, It's Not a Messaging Problem
  The real trouble with ObamaCare
  David Harsanyi
  November 17, 2010
• Chilling Her Softly
  The secret silencing of a pain treatment activist
  Jacob Sullum
  November 17, 2010
• Let Ethanol Subsidies Die
  A policy that free marketeers and militant greens can agree on
  Ronald Bailey
  November 16, 2010
• The Democratizer
  C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb talks about big spending, the First Amendment, and putting cameras where government doesn’t want them to go.
  Nick Gillespie
  November 16, 2010
• Stimulus: Still Not Working!
  Unbelievably, the administration and its allies keep insisting that a failed policy was a success.
  Veronique de Rugy
  November 16, 2010
• Brian Aitken's Mistake
  A New Jersey man gets seven years for being a responsible gun owner.
  Radley Balko
  November 15, 2010
• Get the Government Out of Our Pants
  Has the Transportation Security Administration finally gone too far?
  Steve Chapman
  November 15, 2010
• The Great Radio Blockade
  How hard is it to pass a reform in the face of an entrenched industry lobby?
  Jesse Walker
  November 12, 2010
• Reach for the Low-Hanging Fruit
  It's time to reform Social Security
  Veronique de Rugy and Jakina Debnam
  November 12, 2010
• The Fitness Divide
  What happened after JFK told America to take a hike
  Greg Beato
  November 12, 2010
• Some Really Inconvenient Truths
  Bjørn Lomborg fights the forces of climate hysteria in the new documentary Cool It.
  Kurt Loder
  November 11, 2010
• Ben Bernanke’s Made-Up Money
  With its new round of quantitative easing, the Fed enters uncharted territory.
  Peter Suderman
  November 11, 2010
• Political Correctness on Campus
  We need more debate about controversial subjects like affirmative action, not less.
  John Stossel
  November 11, 2010
• The Year of YouTube Advertising
  The wildest crop yet of online campaign commercials
  Jesse Walker and Armin Rosen
  November 11, 2010
• Letting Ex-Cons Vote Is No Crime
  The case for ending felon disenfranchisement
  Steve Chapman
  November 11, 2010
• Stop Smearing Federalism
  From consumer advocacy to gay marriage, liberals routinely embrace federalism. So why do they keep comparing it to slavery?
  Damon W. Root
  November 10, 2010
• Glenn Beck’s Great Awakening
  Populism, revivals, and goth Americana
  Nick Gillespie
  November 10, 2010
• Job-Killing Environmentalists
  How the EPA cripples the American economy
  Jon Basil Utley
  November 10, 2010
• Can't Buy You Love
  The essential yet limited role of money in politics
  Jacob Sullum
  November 10, 2010
• Can the Climate Be Fixed?
  A new book offers a clear-eyed view of the technological and economic magnitude of addressing climate change.
  Ronald Bailey
  November 9, 2010
• PIRG Report Distorts Proposed Indy Parking Meter Lease
  PIRG report ignores facts, offers litany of myths and errors on proposed lease
  Leonard Gilroy
  November 9, 2010
• You Are Now Free to Speak About Politics
  Why do some people fear a less restricted debate?
  Jacob Sullum
  November 9, 2010
• Immigrant Bashing By Immigrants
  The GOP's ethnic candidates won by embracing a restrictionist agenda in the midterm elections.
  Shikha Dalmia
  November 9, 2010
• The Great Libertarian Conspiracy
  Democrats campaign against people they don’t understand.
  Matt Welch
  November 8, 2010
• Attack of the Food Police
  Why the government has no business banning Happy Meals
  Steve Chapman
  November 8, 2010
• Does ObamaCare Reduce Health Care Spending?
  The short answer is no.
  Veronique de Rugy
  November 5, 2010
• Election Night a Mixed Bag for ABC Privatization
  Washington State ballot measures fail, but Pennsylvania elects pro-privatization governor
  Leonard Gilroy
  November 5, 2010
• “It’s No Longer a Matter of If, It’s a Matter of When”
  Staying high on marijuana legalization after the defeat of Proposition 19
  Brian Doherty
  November 5, 2010
• AZ Office of the Auditor General Releases Provocative, but Flawed, Review of the Department of Corrections
  Flawed Study Skews Public vs. Private Corrections Cost Comparison
  Harris Kenny
  November 4, 2010
• Montana Wants Money for Nothing
  When states vote for cheap payday loans, they wind up with no loans at all.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  November 4, 2010
• Did Freedom Win?
  Shrinking the government means slashing government spending
  John Stossel
  November 4, 2010
• The More Things Change
  Why the Republican victory won't matter
  Steve Chapman
  November 4, 2010
• The Great Rejection
  The election means exactly what you think it means.
  Michael C. Moynihan
  November 3, 2010
• A Vote Against Government
  Understanding the midterm elections
  David Harsanyi
  November 3, 2010
• The Terminator vs. the Constitution
  California's video game law does violence to the First Amendment.
  Jacob Sullum
  November 3, 2010
• The Science of Libertarian Morality
  A new social psychology study explores the moral formation of the libertarian personality.
  Ronald Bailey
  November 2, 2010
• Does Barack Obama Inspire Buyer's Remorse?
  Catching up with libertarians who voted for the president.
  November 2, 2010
• Entitlement Reform? Not Their Cup of Tea
  Tea Party candidates are backing off from serious spending cuts
  Shikha Dalmia
  November 1, 2010
• The Media Aren't Liberal
  Prop. 19 highlights the authoritarian tendencies of the mainstream press.
  Radley Balko
  November 1, 2010
• In Washington, Division Can Be a Plus
  The case for divided government
  Steve Chapman
  November 1, 2010
• The Other Big Debate This Election Cycle -- The 'Wets' vs. 'Drys'
  State monopolies on liquor sales don't create safer societies than states with privatized sales
  Anthony Randazzo and Jason Mercier
  November 1, 2010
• Season of the Regulator
  The killjoys come out on Halloween.
  Jesse Walker
  October 29, 2010
• The Root of All Evil?
  Money won't turn political garbage into gold.
  Terry Michael
  October 29, 2010
• Corpses, Crimes, and Comic Books
  Old Testament justice in the horror comics of the ’50s
  Greg Beato
  October 29, 2010
• Killer Queen
  Lisbeth Salander wraps things up in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
  Kurt Loder
  October 28, 2010
• Are We All Friedmanites Now?
  The Fed is using Milton Friedman’s theories to justify gigantic interventions in the world market.
  Penn Bullock
  October 28, 2010
• Plastic Water Bottles Won't Hurt You
  Ignore the junk science and follow the facts.
  John Stossel
  October 28, 2010
• The Incumbent Protection Racket
  How gerrymandering hurts democracy
  Steve Chapman
  October 28, 2010
• "Secret Money from God Knows Where"
  Campaign cash and finger-pointing in the post-Citizens United era
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  October 27, 2010
• Not Paying Attention? You Wish
  Tea Partiers have their eyes open. That's why they're mad.
  David Harsanyi
  October 27, 2010
• Division Dividends
  Two-party control is better than the alternative, but not much.
  Jacob Sullum
  October 27, 2010
• Will a Republican Congress Knock Science Back Into the Stone Age?
  Predicting the effect of a victory for the G.O.P. "know-nothing flat-earthers" on science policy
  Ronald Bailey
  October 26, 2010
• China Bashing Is for Losers
  Trade sanctions won't heal the American economy
  Shikha Dalmia
  October 26, 2010
• Strange Love
  How I learned to stop worrying and embrace the equal protection argument for gay marriage
  Jacob Sullum
  October 26, 2010
• More Democracy, More Incarceration
  The devastating mix of politics and crime policy
  Radley Balko
  October 25, 2010
• Obama's False Alarm on Corporate Electioneering
  Understanding the president's attacks on Citizens United
  Steve Chapman
  October 25, 2010
• Leaving Taxes or Candy on the Table
  Research suggests sin tax projections in Washington will just create a heavier tax burden and leave the state needing to make future cuts
  Anthony Randazzo and David Godow
  October 25, 2010
• The Man Who Could Really Fire Pelosi
  Meet John Dennis, Nancy Pelosi's anti-war, pro-civil liberties, pro-gay rights Republican opponent
  Brian Doherty
  October 22, 2010
• Radio Theater
  An all-star gallery of Republican politicians say they want to defund National Public Radio. We've heard that line before.
  Jesse Walker
  October 22, 2010
• Public-Sector Unions Choke Taxpayers
  It's time for reform.
  John Stossel
  October 21, 2010
• Rahm's Residence and the Appeal of Absent Pols
  Does it matter if politicians live in the places they represent?
  Steve Chapman
  October 21, 2010
• Sacramento Über Alles
  Jerry Brown’s plan to revive California through government alone
  Tim Cavanaugh
  October 20, 2010
• Rise of the Bitter Clingers
  Understanding the Tea Party's appeal
  David Harsanyi
  October 20, 2010
• The Amazing Elastic Commerce Clause
  The individual health insurance mandate tugs on an overstretched federal power.
  Jacob Sullum
  October 20, 2010
• The Eternal Return of Overpopulation
  Getting the cause of high fertility backwards.
  Ronald Bailey
  October 19, 2010
• India Follows China's Sporting Folly
  New Delhi residents need schools and sewers not stadiums and auditoriums.
  Shikha Dalmia
  October 19, 2010
• The Small Business Myth
  When the government tries to help small businesses, it hurts businesses (and taxpayers) of all sizes.
  Veronique de Rugy
  October 19, 2010
• The Last Action Hero
  After seven years that felt like a thousand, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger bequeaths a slightly larger government to a sickly state.
  Tim Cavanaugh
  October 18, 2010
• America's Most Successful Stop Snitchin' Campaign
  The failure to protect whistle-blowing cops is inexcusable.
  Radley Balko
  October 18, 2010
• Two Wars and We Don't Feel a Draft
  The benefits of a volunteer military
  Steve Chapman
  October 18, 2010
• Obama: Don't Bash the Chamber of Commerce
  It's bad history and bad politics.
  Terry Michael
  October 15, 2010
• ObamaCare’s Unseen Costs
  Taxes will go up under the new health care law—and the costs will be more than you think.
  Peter Suderman
  October 15, 2010
• The Tax Man Cometh
  Obama's tax plan will hurt small businesses and damage the economy.
  Anthony Randazzo
  October 15, 2010
• Nuclear Deterrent
  Wikileaks' underground lair.
  Peter Suderman
  October 15, 2010
• Bring the Pain
  Wrong done right in Jackass 3D
  Kurt Loder
  October 14, 2010
• The Deferential Constitutionalist
  Liberals want a “Scalia of the left” on the Supreme Court. Is Justice Breyer their man?
  Damon W. Root
  October 14, 2010
• Freer Is Better
  Measuring economic liberty around the world.
  John Stossel
  October 14, 2010
• Pandering to Geezers
  It's a bipartisan problem.
  Steve Chapman
  October 14, 2010
• Waiting for Superman Becomes Waiting for Godot
  Telling tales about the demise of education reform in D.C.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  October 13, 2010
• Barack Obama and the Chamber of Secrets
  Who will the Democrats demonize next?
  David Harsanyi
  October 13, 2010
• Logical Farce
  Obama's wild attacks on "foreign money" reek of desperation.
  Jacob Sullum
  October 13, 2010
• Regulating Personal Genomics to Death
  The FDA threat to direct to consumer genetic testing.
  Ronald Bailey
  October 12, 2010
• Fluidity and Mobility
  It's time to redefine what it means to be middle class.
  Samuel Staley
  October 12, 2010
• It Can Happen Here
  Government really can be cut: case studies from Canada, New Zealand, and the United States
  David Henderson, Arnold Kling and Maurice McTigue
  October 12, 2010
• Nightmare on Every Street
  How to carve Fannie and Freddie into pieces
  Alex J. Pollock
  October 11, 2010
• Abolish Drunk Driving Laws
  If lawmakers are serious about saving lives, they should focus on impairment, not alcohol.
  Radley Balko
  October 11, 2010
• How to Profit by Expanding Freedom
  The case for drug legalization
  Steve Chapman
  October 11, 2010
• The Power Politics of the Prize
  The Nobel has long been about both politics and literature.
  Michael C. Moynihan
  October 8, 2010
• Austan Powers
  What we can learn from watching the libertarians-for-Obama Great Economist Hope get caught doing the White House's dirty work in trashing libertarians against Obama
  Matt Welch
  October 8, 2010
• Forced to Be Free
  What anti-TV crusades, the campaign against the “Ground Zero mosque,” and Ayn Rand’s “intellectual heir” have in common with the reform movements of the antebellum era
  Jesse Walker
  October 8, 2010
• The Politics of Proposition 19
  Marijuana legalization hits the big time
  Brian Doherty
  October 7, 2010
• Reform, Transportation Trump Revenue-Neutrality: The Rationale for ABC Privatization, Part 2
  Streamlining the state, investing in needed transportation should be the focus, not revenue-neutrality
  Leonard Gilroy
  October 7, 2010
• Congress Can't Repeal Economics
  More evidence against ObamaCare rolls in.
  John Stossel
  October 7, 2010
• The Return of Debtor’s Prison
  Collection agencies use the criminal justice system to pocket credit card debts.
  Greg Beato
  October 7, 2010
• Aaron Sorkin's Anxiety Closet
  With the social network, the man behind The West Wing finds something to be cynical about.
  Jesse Walker
  October 6, 2010
• Assassinations Done Wrong
  Obama's troubling embrace of the state secrets doctrin
  David Harsanyi
  October 6, 2010
• Pot Prohibitionist Prevarications
  Five whoppers told by opponents of California's marijuana legalization initiative
  Jacob Sullum
  October 6, 2010
• Basel Accord Redux Redux
  The Basel III Accord—a third revision of capital regulations in three decades—won't have enough of an impact on Wall Street to dissuade another financial crisis.
  Anthony Randazzo
  October 6, 2010
• From Yuck to Yippee!
  What this year's Nobel Prize for a test tube baby pioneer tells us about the moral endorsement of technology.
  Ronald Bailey
  October 5, 2010
• How to Slash the State
  14 ways to dismantle a monstrous government, one program at a time
  October 5, 2010
• Trickle Down Surveillance
  The Pennsylvania spying scandal reveals a deeper problem with homeland security.
  Matthew Harwood
  October 5, 2010
• A Tale of Two Majorities
  Why the Venezuelan Opposition won the national vote but lost the National Assembly
  Antonio Sosa
  October 4, 2010
• ObamaCare's First Major Casualties
  Why the new health care law is bad for gays and aliens
  Shikha Dalmia
  October 4, 2010
• Scary Monsters
  The growth of government threatens freedom much more than mosque-building Muslims do.
  Matt Welch
  October 4, 2010
• eMeg Will Use Skill Set to Dissect California
  Meg Whitman’s plan for the Golden State is too grown-up for its own good
  Tim Cavanaugh
  October 1, 2010
• Antisocial
  The Social Network illuminates the dawn of our online-all-the-time world.
  Kurt Loder
  September 30, 2010
• Crass Market
  How ObamaCare’s exchanges undermine quality health care.
  Peter Suderman
  September 30, 2010
• Taxing the Rich
  The trouble with progressive economics
  John Stossel
  September 30, 2010
• Holding Justice Kennedy to His Word
  Why the Supreme Court must put a stop to Columbia University's eminent domain abuse.
  Damon W. Root
  September 29, 2010
• Supreme Court Prediction Market
  An interview with FantasySCOTUS.net's Josh Blackman
  Damon W. Root
  September 29, 2010
• Waiting for the Man
  The long road to marijuana legalization
  David Harsanyi
  September 29, 2010
• Faking the Pledge
  Republican promises of fiscal sobriety ring hollow.
  Jacob Sullum
  September 29, 2010
• Revving Up Electric Cars With Government Cash
  We'll never know if the electric car industry would have been viable without subsidies.
  Ronald Bailey
  September 28, 2010
• Cartoon Truth
  Animated recreations may be the next big thing for the news biz.
  Greg Beato
  September 28, 2010
• Confirmation Theater
  Elena Kagan is set to participate in a confirmation process she once dismissed as a charade
  Radley Balko
  September 28, 2010
• Misbehaving Federal Prosecutors
  A USA Today investigation finds egregious misconduct at the Department of Justice, with few consequences.
  Radley Balko
  September 27, 2010
• Philosophy and Consequences
  Liberty and good public policy are not the same thing.
  Tom Palmer
  September 27, 2010
• Our Non-War Over Islam
  Tolerance and assimilation are the real story.
  Steve Chapman
  September 27, 2010
• Towards an Alternative Regulatory Culture
  Ideas for fixing Dodd-Frank when the time comes
  Anthony Randazzo
  September 27, 2010
• Federalism and Medical Marijuana
  Let the states serve as experimental laboratories.
  Patri Friedman
  September 24, 2010
• Let Them Eat Frankenfish!
  After 15 years, the FDA is about to let genetically modified fish enter the food supply. It's about time.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  September 24, 2010
• Ayn Rand's Revenge
  What Reshma Saujani's insurgent campaign says about the future of New York politics
  John Vaught LaBeaume
  September 23, 2010
• The Battle for the Future
  Combating progressive fairy tales
  John Stossel
  September 23, 2010
• The Failure of Obama's Stimulus
  Big spending has only produced bigger government.
  Steve Chapman
  September 23, 2010
• Bank Shot
  Oliver Stone cashes out with Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
  Kurt Loder
  September 22, 2010
• Live Forever, Or Die Trying
  Pulitzer Prize winner Jonathan Weiner surveys the state of immortality research.
  Brian Doherty
  September 22, 2010
• A Wasted Decade?
  Life isn't perfect. But advances in medicine and technology are making things better all the time.
  David Harsanyi
  September 22, 2010
• Ad Rage
  Democrats blame the First Amendment for their impending losses.
  Jacob Sullum
  September 22, 2010
• The Bioethanol Binge
  Fuel made from corn is expensive, inefficient—and undrinkable.
  Ronald Bailey
  September 21, 2010
• D'Souza to Obama, With Malice
  The president is a Keynesian meddler not a Kenyan anti-colonialist.
  Shikha Dalmia
  September 21, 2010
• Public Employees vs. the Public Will
  Government workers get more powerful as they grow less popular.
  Tim Cavanaugh
  September 21, 2010
• Austerity Agonistes
  Why left-wing economists’ warnings against austerity programs are wrong
  Veronique de Rugy
  September 20, 2010
• How to Record the Cops
  A guide to the technology for keeping government accountable
  Radley Balko
  September 20, 2010
• Cuba and the Death of Communism
  Fidel Castro finally admits the obvious.
  Steve Chapman
  September 20, 2010
• Burning Money to Turn Coal into Gas
  In which Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey confesses to his role as a petty Igor to Jimmy Carter's energy-regulating Dr. Frankenstein.
  Ronald Bailey
  September 17, 2010
• Tools for Radicals
  The leftist localism of Saul Alinsky
  Jesse Walker
  September 17, 2010
• Fixing the Global Warming Establishment with New Lipstick
  A review of the IPCC process is a huge missed opportunity
  Shikha Dalmia
  September 17, 2010
• The Pat Tillman Story
  A sobering new documentary raises more questions than it answers.
  Greg Beato
  September 16, 2010
• Money Is Not What Schools Need
  Competition is the answer.
  John Stossel
  September 16, 2010
• Clarence Thomas’ Favorite Anarchist
  The radical anti-statism of Lysander Spooner
  Damon W. Root
  September 16, 2010
• The Tea Party and the Value of Craziness
  Extremism in defense of liberty isn't necessarily a vice.
  Steve Chapman
  September 16, 2010
• Throwing the Bums Out Is Harder Than It Looks
  Despite voter outrage, most congressmen will win re-election.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  September 15, 2010
• There's No Need to Get Personal
  The GOP's misguided and unnecessary attacks on Obama
  David Harsanyi
  September 15, 2010
• Torture Tort Terror
  Obama uses national security as a cover for violating people's rights.
  Jacob Sullum
  September 15, 2010
• Tax Policy Manipulation Won't Fix the Economy
  President Obama's tax plan is full of holes and flawed analysis; the GOP's alternative is not much better
  Anthony Randazzo
  September 15, 2010
• Wind Turbines Are Beautiful
  ...but a tad expensive.
  Ronald Bailey
  September 14, 2010
• Spare Parts
  The scientific horror of Never Let Me Go
  Kurt Loder
  September 14, 2010
• Rogue States
  The revolt against ObamaCare
  Peter Suderman
  September 14, 2010
• It's Still the War, Stupid!
  How congressional Democrats can save their seats
  Terry Michael
  September 14, 2010
• The Case for Bifurcated Trials
  How we can narrow the odds of seeing another Cameron Todd Willingham.
  Radley Balko
  September 13, 2010
• You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
  The Second Amendment finally applies to the states. Now the fight over gun rights really begins.
  Brian Doherty
  September 13, 2010
• If Palin Runs for President
  Twitter and Facebook won't help her in the debates.
  Steve Chapman
  September 13, 2010
• Utah Report Gets it Wrong on Hospital Privatization
  Despite finding cost savings and expanded care through privatization, report relies on faulty logic to recommend against it
  Leonard Gilroy
  September 10, 2010
• Heeding the Sage of Baltimore
  A new edition of H.L. Mencken’s Prejudices captures the legendary journalist at his corrosive best
  Damon W. Root
  September 10, 2010
• The Visionary
  Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand on the future, the environment, libertarianism, and the Merry Pranksters
  Brian Doherty
  September 10, 2010
• Whole Lotta Nothing In L.A.
  How the Community Redevelopment Agency is turning the City of the Angels back into a desert.
  Tim Cavanaugh
  September 9, 2010
• Entrepreneurs Under Attack
  How protectionist laws stifle competition and cripple economic liberty
  John Stossel
  September 9, 2010
• Seven Empty Promises About ObamaCare
  The president is still struggling to sell his plan.
  Peter Suderman
  September 9, 2010
• What Mayor Daley Left Behind
  Surveying the state of Chicago
  Steve Chapman
  September 9, 2010
• Can You Smell What Obama's Cooking?
  Why the president's new stimulus won't work
  David Harsanyi
  September 8, 2010
• Bullying Busybody for Senate
  How Connecticut's attorney general beat Craigslist into submission
  Jacob Sullum
  September 8, 2010
• The Confrontation
  Drew Carey and Nick Gillespie clash with the Cleveland City Council over Reason Saves Cleveland.
  Nick Gillespie
  September 8, 2010
• Obama Motors' Ill-Timed IPO
  General Motors is going public to boost the Democrats prospects in November, not to protect taxpayers.
  Shikha Dalmia
  September 7, 2010
• Reclaiming Rights
  The never-ending struggle to go about your business without fear of government sanction
  Matt Welch
  September 7, 2010
• Is Gassing Wolf Pups Better Than Hunting Their Parents?
  Environmentalists force a tough choice in the Northern Rockies.
  Ronald Bailey
  September 7, 2010
• Killed on a Technicality
  Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood wants to execute a man based on discredited forensic testimony from a disgraced dentist.
  Radley Balko
  September 7, 2010
• Breaking Down the Derivatives Market
  The new rules governing derivatives trades don't address real problems
  Anthony Randazzo
  September 7, 2010
• Not Enough Labor Day
  How the government is destroying jobs
  Steve Chapman
  September 6, 2010
• From the Killing Fields to the Tea Party
  A Cambodian refugee and self-described Reagan Republican runs for Congress in the Bay State.
  Michael C. Moynihan
  September 3, 2010
• Reflecting on the Iraq War
  It's too early to know history's verdict.
  Cathy Young
  September 3, 2010
• 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
• 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
  Anthony Randazzo and Shikha Dalmia
  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
  Jonah Goldberg, Brink Lindsey and Matt Kibbe
  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
  Jesse Kline, Katherine Mangu-Ward and Robby Soave
  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
• Land Use Key to Understanding Real Solutions to Honolulu Traffic Congestion
  Samuel Staley
  June 3, 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
  Bradley Smith and Jeff Patch
  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.
  Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch
  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 and Harris Kenny
  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 and Harris Kenny
  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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