No Regulation? No Problem

Intuition leads us to think—wrongly—that without government we'd be victims of fraud.

John Stossel | 1.02.2013

Fiscal Cliff Deal Raises Taxes, Delays Sequestration...And Will Cut Spending!

Nick Gillespie | 1.02.2013

January: The Perfect Time to Debate the Filibuster

The month was named after Janus—the Roman god who had two faces.

A. Barton Hinkle | 1.02.2013

Plead Guilty or Go to Prison for Life

The stark choice given a medical marijuana grower highlights the injustice of mandatory minimums.

Jacob Sullum | 1.02.2013

How to "Spin" Conservatives Into Worrying About the Environment

Make them feel disgust, say researchers.

Ronald Bailey | 1.01.2013

To Revive the Economy, Cut Federal Spending

Obama and Boehner are both big spenders. That's the problem.

Nick Gillespie & Veronique de Rugy | 1.01.2013

The 5 Best Drug Scares of 2012

Meth babies, deadly energy drinks, fake pot, higher schools, and the drug that makes you eat people's faces

Jacob Sullum | 12.31.2012

A Tax Cuts Mystery

If Government spending wasn’t out of control, no one would have wanted to kill Bush tax cuts

Ira Stoll | 12.31.2012

Who’s Attacking the Constitution Now?

Many ardent supporters of the Second Amendment are not quite so ardent about the First.

A. Barton Hinkle | 12.31.2012

'A Highly Personal Music'

Jazz, commerce, and individualism.

George H. Smith | 12.30.2012

Examine Inequality’s Causes Before Prescribing Solutions

Fear and loathing of income inequality is both totally understandable and ultimately misplaced.

Nick Gillespie | 12.30.2012

Labor Union Fights Liquor Store Privatization in Pennsylvania

How organized labor is resisting efforts to privatize the state-owned liquor monopoly.

Eric Boehm | 12.29.2012

Top 10 Food Policy Success Stories of 2012

This year had its share of good news for supporters of food freedom.

Baylen Linnekin | 12.29.2012

Why Chuck Hagel Should Tell Obama to Go to Hell

The prospective defense secretary will be more influential by speaking out against war and empire.

Terry Michael | 12.28.2012

Tough Year Ahead for California Taxpayers and Wealth Producers

The Golden State’s big government keeps getting bigger.

Steven Greenhut | 12.28.2012

Congress Has Enough Time to Keep Spying on You, Forever

Matt Welch | 12.28.2012

Les Misérables

Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman sing for their Oscars.

Kurt Loder | 12.28.2012

NFL Player Chris Kluwe on Being a Libertarian

The Minnesota Vikings punter discusses libertarianism, anarchism, Ayn Rand, empathy, and what he’d change about the U.S. government.

Scott Shackford | 12.27.2012

Reviving the GOP

How can the Republican Party dig itself out of the hole it’s in?

Ira Stoll | 12.27.2012

Our Favorite - and Least Favorite - Things in 2012 (Non-Politics Edition)

Forget politics for a minute. Here's what Reason staffers liked - and hated - in the past year.

Nick Gillespie | 12.27.2012

American Apocalypse

Never-ending predictions that the world is about to end

Jesse Walker | 12.27.2012

'I Do My Thing and You Do Your Thing'

When psychologists discovered individualism.

Jeff Riggenbach | 12.26.2012

Sometimes a School Needs an Intervention

In districts with underperforming schools, unhappy parents have few means by which to catalyze change.

A. Barton Hinkle | 12.26.2012

Charity Begins With Wealth Creation

John Stossel | 12.26.2012

Putin Goes to Church

Russia’s unholy new alliance between Orthodox and state

Cathy Young | 12.26.2012

Who Is Too Unbalanced to Be Armed?

The danger of treating gun violence as a mental health problem

Jacob Sullum | 12.26.2012

The Rioter’s Veto

Can violence in the Middle East justify censorship in the United States?

Jacob Sullum | 12.25.2012

Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx redress the horrors of American slavery.

Kurt Loder | 12.24.2012

2012: From Arab Spring to Early Winter

From Egypt to Syria to Russia, reactionary forces are on the rise.

Steve Chapman | 12.24.2012

Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong

Old truths decay and new ones are born at an astonishing rate.

Ronald Bailey | 12.24.2012

End the Food Protectionism Racket

Food protectionism is harmful, rampant, and stupid.

Baylen Linnekin | 12.22.2012

NRA Fights Anti-Gun Hysteria With Pro-Gun Hysteria

Jacob Sullum | 12.21.2012

Years Without a Santa Claus

Puritans, pagans, and Christmas.

Jesse Walker | 12.21.2012

California Lawmakers Aim to Restrict Gun Rights

Golden State legislators join the gun control chorus in the wake of Sandy Hook.

Steven Greenhut | 12.21.2012

Fiscal Hawks Need to Fight for the Debt Ceiling

It is a constitutional tool to save America from itself

Shikha Dalmia | 12.21.2012

Mayan Apocalypse or Y2K?

Mesoamerican calendar confusion causes 2012 chaos.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.21.2012

How Capitalism Made the Christmas Tree Better

Originally intended as an antidote to commercialism, the Christmas tree soon had the opposite impact.

Greg Beato | 12.20.2012

Jack Reacher

Tom Cruise misfires in the role of an ultra-hard-boiled investigator.

Kurt Loder | 12.21.2012

The Auto Bailout Failure Is Now Complete

The bailout exemplifies much of what's wrong with government.

David Harsanyi | 12.20.2012

Don’t Believe the Hype About “Dangerous” Christmas Toys

Welcome to the season of bogus scare stories.

Lenore Skenazy | 12.19.2012

Wrong Answers for Mass Shootings

Rounding up the usual suspects: certain firearms, mental illness, and video games

Steve Chapman | 12.20.2012

It's the Spending, Stupid!

Ludicrous, irresponsible spending is why we're in trouble

John Stossel | 12.19.2012

When Cities Go Bankrupt

Municipal failure is bad for creditors and unions, but potentially good for taxpayers.

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.19.2012

Zero Dark Thirty

Jessica Chastain on the trail of Osama bin Laden.

Kurt Loder | 12.19.2012

The Limits of Gun Control in the Wake of the Sandy Hook Massacre

Outrage does not make ill-conceived policies smarter or more effective.

Jacob Sullum | 12.19.2012

How Big Labor Plans to Fight Michigan's Right-to-Work Law

Labor unions weigh their options in the courtroom and at the ballot box.

Shikha Dalmia | 12.18.2012

Could a Threat Assessment Have Prevented the Sandy Hook Massacre?

Social scientists try to prevent school shootings by identifying possible perpetrators.

Ronald Bailey | 12.18.2012

A '9/11 For Schools?' Let's Hope Not

A decade of frantic overreaction and wasteful, destructive policies based on the false promise of perfect safety

Gene Healy | 12.18.2012

2012: The Year in Books

Reason writers pick the best books of the year

Jesse Walker | 12.18.2012

Six Degrees of Military Spending

Nearly everyone knows someone who gets paid by the Pentagon. That’s why it’s so hard to cut.

Veronique de Rugy | 12.18.2012

Office Pool 2013

Predicting the next mayor of New York City, new Fed leadership, and who the Supreme Court will irritate most

Ira Stoll | 12.17.2012

Are Mass Shootings Becoming More Common in the United States?

Making sense of the data.

Jesse Walker | 12.17.2012

Right-to-Work Laws Are, Indeed, Libertarian

Shikha Dalmia | 12.17.2012

At Sandy Hook Memorial, Obama Showcases the Magical Thinking of Gun Controllers

Jacob Sullum | 12.17.2012

Gay Participation Hurts Neither Military Nor Marriage

The hand-wringing about dire consequences is an attempt to dress up base motives in more respectable garb

A. Barton Hinkle | 12.17.2012

Your Cellphone Is Spying on You

How the surveillance state co-opted personal technology

Ronald Bailey | 12.17.2012

Florida’s Property Rights Abuse Lands at the Supreme Court

The justices prepare to hear a major 5th Amendment case.

Damon W. Root | 12.16.2012

The Irrelevance of "Right-to-Work" Laws

The battle over labor laws makes for great theater, but for the most part, theater is all it is.

Steve Chapman | 12.17.2012

The Libertarian Case Against Right-to-Work Laws

An earlier generation of libertarians and classical liberals condemned so-called right-to-work laws.

Sheldon Richman | 12.16.2012

In Wake of Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting, Some Sober Talk About Gun Control

Mike Riggs | 12.14.2012

How to Fix the Current Farm Bill Fiasco

Congress should neither revert to the 1949 Farm Bill nor pass a new five-year Farm Bill. What's the alternative?

Baylen Linnekin | 12.15.2012

4 Awful Reactions to Sandy Hook School Shooting - And Thoughts on a Better Response

Nick Gillespie | 12.15.2012

The Top 5 U.S. Foreign Policy Screw-Ups of 2012

From its policies in Libya to its approach to Syria, the Obama administration has been a disappointment on the world stage in 2012.

Matthew Feeney | 12.14.2012

The War Over Weed

If you know why marijuana was banned, you know why it should be legalized.

Jacob Sullum | 12.14.2012

Obama Finally Responds to Legal Pot in Colorado and Washington: Feds Won't Go After Users; No Word on Suppliers

Mike Riggs | 12.14.2012

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Peter Jackson on a surprisingly flawed new quest.

Kurt Loder | 12.14.2012

Why Obamacare's Health Care Cost Controls Won't Work

Our sad, failed history of technocratic cost controls.

Peter Suderman | 12.13.2012

Urban Renewal, Corporate-Style

Zappos.com founder tries to resurrect downtown Las Vegas.

Greg Beato | 12.13.2012

Gun Rights Find a New Home

A federal appeals court rules Illinois cannot maintain its flat ban on concealed-carry.

Steve Chapman | 12.13.2012

Government Spying Out of Control

The President and the leadership of both political parties have abandoned their oaths to uphold the Constitution.

Andrew Napolitano | 12.13.2012

What 3-D Printing Means for Gun Rights

Cutting-edge technology meets the right to keep and bear arms.

Brian Doherty | 12.12.2012

Who Benefits from the Mortgage Interest Deduction?

If the mortgage interest deduction were to be phased out, who would lose out on the subsidy?

Anthony Randazzo & Dean Stansel | 12.12.2012

Unsafe Security

A sociologist aptly analyzes our failures in top-down protection.

Bruce Schneier | 12.12.2012

Gun Control, Ad Infinitum

Gun control is something Americans almost never stop talking about.

A. Barton Hinkle | 12.12.2012

Pennsylvania Court Strikes Blow Against Asset Forfeiture Regime

In a decision filed last month, Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pellegrini called the state’s civil asset forfeiture law “state-sanctioned theft.”

Eric Boehm | 12.12.2012

Smoking Pot and Tying the Knot

Familiarity is breeding tolerance of marijuana and gay marriage.

Jacob Sullum | 12.12.2012

How U.N. Climate Change Negotiations Threaten Economic Growth

Misguided responses to man-made climate change pose a severe threat to future human prosperity.

Ronald Bailey | 12.11.2012

The Five Worst Op-Eds of 2012

Bad arguments and bad writing from the nation's top opinionmongers

Gene Healy | 1.03.2013

So What's Next, Mr. President?

Nearly every decision made during Obama's presidency has been conducted under the canopy of catastrophe.

David Harsanyi | 1.03.2013

Detroit

City of unintended consequences!

Peter Bagge | 1.03.2013

4 Things You Need to Know About Secretary of State Nominee John Kerry

Don't let his reputation as a peacenik fool you. John Kerry is no anti-interventionist.

Ed Krayewski | 1.03.2013

Fiscal Irresponsibility Day

Washington rams through an appropriately hideous deal.

Matt Welch | 1.02.2013

No Regulation? No Problem

Intuition leads us to think—wrongly—that without government we'd be victims of fraud.

John Stossel | 1.02.2013

January: The Perfect Time to Debate the Filibuster

The month was named after Janus—the Roman god who had two faces.

A. Barton Hinkle | 1.02.2013

Plead Guilty or Go to Prison for Life

The stark choice given a medical marijuana grower highlights the injustice of mandatory minimums.

Jacob Sullum | 1.02.2013

How to "Spin" Conservatives Into Worrying About the Environment

Make them feel disgust, say researchers.

Ronald Bailey | 1.01.2013

To Revive the Economy, Cut Federal Spending

Obama and Boehner are both big spenders. That's the problem.

Nick Gillespie & Veronique de Rugy | 1.01.2013

A Tax Cuts Mystery

If Government spending wasn’t out of control, no one would have wanted to kill Bush tax cuts

Ira Stoll | 12.31.2012

The 5 Best Drug Scares of 2012

Meth babies, deadly energy drinks, fake pot, higher schools, and the drug that makes you eat people's faces

Jacob Sullum | 12.31.2012

Who’s Attacking the Constitution Now?

Many ardent supporters of the Second Amendment are not quite so ardent about the First.

A. Barton Hinkle | 12.31.2012

'A Highly Personal Music'

Jazz, commerce, and individualism.

George H. Smith | 12.30.2012

Examine Inequality’s Causes Before Prescribing Solutions

Fear and loathing of income inequality is both totally understandable and ultimately misplaced.

Nick Gillespie | 12.30.2012

Labor Union Fights Liquor Store Privatization in Pennsylvania

How organized labor is resisting efforts to privatize the state-owned liquor monopoly.

Eric Boehm | 12.29.2012