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Are these the "#results" Obama wanted?

What the courts still have to decide about the Second Amendment

The pork in your favorite pizza isn't just pepperoni.

Should the White House announce an American version of royal warrants?

No, I'm not a narc. Why do you ask?

New IRS rules will restrict free speech.

The problem is joblessness, not rich people

John Durant, author of The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health, tells the story of how he discovered his inner hunter-gatherer.

Russia isn’t the only country that regards its "backyard" as its playground. The U.S. acts the same way.

Do cops need a warrant to search your cell phone when you’re under arrest?

A judge on Hawaii's Big Island last week halted enforcement of part of Hawaii's flawed anti-GMO law.

Russian President Vladimir Putin may face international disapproval from the West over his Crimean actions, but at home, he's enjoying his highest approval ratings in years.

Republican lawmakers should stop demanding the U.S. do something and accept that we can't be the world's policeman.

So much for Obama's dreams of being a Democratic Ronald Reagan

Kristen Bell back on the case, Elijah Wood playing for his life.

Republicans check their WWRRD? bracelets.

Forget guaranteeing loans to corrupt government officials or facing down the Russians over Crimea. Open the borders!

Why do the people in charge of our security apparatus behave as though they can do whatever they want? Because no one has stopped them.

Senators say CIA agents hacked their computers, while the CIA says it's the senators who are guilty of hacking. Either way, it's a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The novel that praises the sanctity of money becomes a movie that's a labor of love over budgets.

Mindless egalitarianism may appeal to politicians, but it doesn't make good policy.

Obama says voting to secede is unconstitutional. So what?

Edward Snowden isn't the first to expose a covert, unconstitutional war against the American people.

At CPAC, Republican rising stars chased an agenda, and electoral victory.

Just because they don't get college degrees, doesn't make them failures

Free speech on campus continues (mostly) to win in court, but higher education still attacks.

The GOP should be thinking up ways to cut taxes, not raise them.

Experts are divided into two groups: those who think sanctions usually fail and those who think they almost always fail.

The busybodies know what’s in your best interest.

The International Narcotics Control Board stands athwart reform, yelling, "Stop!" Is anyone listening?

By creating a new right in actors’ performances, this case may make any number of works unavailable at the behest of actors.

Including a couple you might not consider libertarian

Barack Obama and John Kerry might be just wrong

We vilify leisure yet embrace labor-saving devices.

How government regulators tried to kill the skin & ink trade.

I’ll stick with the gays, the immigrants, and the ringing cash registers.

The recent recall of nearly 9 million pounds of meat highlights the fact that USDA regulations make eating truly "local" meat difficult for consumers. How can we fix that?

Republicans may be unpopular, but Democrats also lose as a record number of Americans identify as political independents.

The tax agency has a history of use as a bludgeon against enemies of sitting administrations and the IRS itself.

Can a quasi-judicial agency impose fines without first taking property owners to court?

Ralph Fiennes between two wars, ancient Greeks back in the thick of one.

In Washington, many politicians assume the world revolves around us. The people in Moscow think it revolves around them.

The mayor has a vendetta against charter-school leader and former political rival Eva Moskowitz.

Rather than arguing over who can discriminate or why, look at what goods and services actually need government protection through public accommodation laws.

The question is whether President Obama has the backbone to withstand the pressure to “get tougher” with Russia.

The U.S. and Europe are in no position to resist the Russian invasion of Ukraine, nor should they.

Qualified immunity will likely be extended to officers who used deadly force.

Whenever the United States fails to use violence abroad—a rarity—politicians and pundits howl about America’s “credibility” being at stake.

On this track, we are doomed.

Fundamental rights must trump the government’s attempt to control private relationships

U.N. drug warriors falsely claim that treaties compel U.S. states to ban pot.