What a Top Liberal Economist Gets Right—and Wrong

The French economist hailed by Paul Krugman is better than you would expect.

Ira Stoll | 3.31.2014

Zero Tolerance Hurts Kids and Ruins Schools

We need common sense in our schools, not mindless bureaucratic compliance.

A. Barton Hinkle | 3.31.2014

The French Implosion

Tax-and-spend politics has driven Paris to the brink.

Veronique de Rugy | 3.31.2014

NSA Surveillance and the Dangers of Power

The fact that Obama trusted himself with the NSA's surveillance powers is ample reason the rest of us shouldn't.

Steve Chapman | 3.31.2014

College Football Unionization Decision Opens a Can of Worms

As long as most major football schools are state universities, the question of player unionization will likely be decided on political rather than strictly legal grounds.

S.M. Oliva | 3.30.2014

Rand Paul is "Divergent" and So Must be Stopped!

Why are liberals and conservatives freaking out over Rand Paul's popularity? Because he's not one of them.

Nick Gillespie | 3.30.2014

Obama's Iraqi Fairy Tale

America's worst foreign policy decision, whitewashed.

Sheldon Richman | 3.30.2014

6 Big Unanswered Questions About Obamacare

Peter Suderman | 3.28.2014

Cheap Thrills

David Koechner playing for keeps.

Kurt Loder | 3.29.2014

House Raw Milk Bills Give Hope to Farmers, Consumers

Rep. Thomas Massie introduced two raw milk bills this week, with bi-partisan sponsorship and support. "It's a great issue because it's about freedom," says Massie.

Baylen Linnekin | 3.29.2014

The Creationism in Schools Distraction

Nothing turns voters against vouchers more than the idea of funding a religious education with public money.

David Harsanyi | 3.28.2014

Policing Language Gives Ammunition to the Trolls

Don’t make the world responsible for your emotional well-being unless you enjoy getting hurt.

Scott Shackford | 3.28.2014

Angry Parents Crush Race-Quota Revival

Prop. 209 would have hurt Asian-Americans in the name of diversity.

Steven Greenhut | 3.28.2014

Kurt Loder Reviews Noah

3.28.2014

Central Intelligence Arabists

How the CIA tilted toward the Arabs in the 1950s and '60s

Michael Young | 3.28.2014

Friday Funnies: Hit Putin With Obamacare

Henry Payne | 3.28.2014

The Flight 370 Conspiracy Stories Aren't About to Stop

At a time like this, suspicious speculation is inevitable.

Jesse Walker | 3.27.2014

The Iranian Nuclear Threat That Never Was

Does Iran really want nuclear weapons?

Sheldon Richman | 3.27.2014

How Many People Will End Up Enrolled Under Obamacare? We Don’t Know—and It May Be a While Before We Do

Peter Suderman | 3.27.2014

'Ban Bossy': A Bad Remedy for a Fictional Problem

Using girls as props for activism that schools them in invented victimhood is not feminist advocacy, it’s feminist malpractice.

Cathy Young | 3.27.2014

The Battle of New Orleans

NIMBYs and newcomers threaten to regulate the Big Easy's music into extinction.

Chris Kjorness | 3.27.2014

Probable Cause is Too Hard for the NSA? Too Bad.

The NSA knows it is violating the Fourth Amendment, which expressly forbids general warrants.

Andrew Napolitano | 3.27.2014

Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills? Not In America.

Those with standing to challenge the pill's prescription status also gain from keeping it that way.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.26.2014

What FDA Bullies Cost Us

Fewer medical options are the price of bureaucratic "caution."

John Stossel | 3.26.2014

Government Power Rests on Violence and Coercion

From police brutality to the events in Ukraine, we’re reminded daily that government power is based on violence.

A. Barton Hinkle | 3.26.2014

The War on Fun

Go outside and play, already!

Abby Wisse Schachter | 3.26.2014

Free Birth Control and Unfree Photographers

Dubious rights threaten true liberty.

Jacob Sullum | 3.26.2014

The Government’s Appalling Campaign Against Small Bus Companies

“They took a man’s livelihood and threw it in the dirt.”

Jim Epstein | 3.25.2014

Will the Supreme Court Save Obamacare Again? Keep Your Eyes on Kennedy

Damon Root | 3.25.2014

Should Vaccines Be Mandatory?

Matt Welch, Ronald Bailey, Jeffrey A. Singer & Sandy Reider | 3.25.2014

Hey Politico, Apparently Public Schools Don’t Teach Low-Income Minority Kids Science at All

The sad fact is that the public schools have spent more than $600 billion a year with little to show in terms of science education for public school students.

Lisa Snell | 3.25.2014

Homeland Security Is, Fittingly, Moving to an Old Insane Asylum

It's running at least a decade late and over a billion dollars short.

Gene Healy | 3.25.2014

GM Bailout Claims the Legal Rights of Americans

Cobalt victims might not win compensation because of a liability shield

Shikha Dalmia | 3.25.2014

Students For Liberty Against Ron Paul on Crimean Crisis

Zenon Evans | 3.24.2014

Junkyard as Playground? Sounds Like More Fun Than a 'Safe' Childhood

J.D. Tuccille | 3.24.2014

Trigger Warning: Free Speech Ahead

From college campuses to political protests, free speech is under attack.

A. Barton Hinkle | 3.24.2014

Racial Preferences in Universities Won't Work in a Diverse America

They will also splinter the Democrats' minority base

Shikha Dalmia | 3.24.2014

The 3D Economy

Forget guns, what happens when everyone prints their own shoes?

Greg Beato | 3.24.2014

Obama's Overtime Gambit

For politicians, meddling in markets means never having to say you're sorry.

Steve Chapman | 3.24.2014

In Defense of Millennials and Individualism

Forget Justin Bieber. Don't Hate on "Generation Selfie"

Nick Gillespie | 3.23.2014

Russia: Where the Real Fascists Are

Perhaps fascism has indeed won—in Russia and not in Ukraine.

Cathy Young | 3.23.2014

How People Behave in Virtual Worlds: A Review of The Proteus Paradox

Down on the collective gold farm.

Bryan Alexander | 3.23.2014

Ukraine and the American Interventionist Disease

America cannot live in liberty with a government equipped to meddle in foreign countries.

Sheldon Richman | 3.23.2014

The Hijacking of Sobriety by the Recovery Movement

Sobriety isn't an abstinence fixation; it's about having purpose

Stanton Peele | 3.22.2014

Death to the Federal Gas Tax

A Congressional bill would kill the gas tax and remove Washington from transportation policy.

Scott Beyer | 3.22.2014

Big Brother Is Watching You Eat

The federal government wants to use your technology to change what you eat. In the meantime, they're surreptitiously posting your data online.

Baylen Linnekin | 3.22.2014

Are Voters Too Sensitive to 'Microaggressions?'

Professors say Republican 'microaggressions' have pushed Asian Americans to vote Democrat.

David Harsanyi | 3.21.2014

Contraceptives, Corporations, and Obamacare

Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. reaches the Supreme Court.

Damon Root | 3.21.2014

Anti-Pot Rhetoric Out of Step With California Voters

Steven Greenhut | 3.21.2014

Gadsden Flag: Too Racist for Government Buildings, But Just Right for Obamacare Propaganda!

Matt Welch | 3.21.2014

Uncle Sam's Drinking Game

The federal government's definition of excessive alcohol consumption mixes medicine with moralism.

Jacob Sullum | 3.21.2014

Divergent and Nymphomaniac: Volume I

Shailene Woodley breaks out, Lars von Trier goes all the way.

Kurt Loder | 3.21.2014

Friday Funnies: Spying and the Senate

Chip Bok | 3.21.2014

Ukrainians and Venezuelans Need Guns To Be Free

The U.S. isn't coming to the rescue, so they had better be able to defend themselves.

Zenon Evans | 3.20.2014

Virginia Student Gets Suspended for Taking Razor From Kid Who Was Cutting

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.20.2014

Putin's Illusory Triumph

If Putin were a foreign policy grandmaster, he wouldn't have pushed Ukrainians so far that they toppled the government he was propping up.

Steve Chapman | 3.20.2014

Diplomas vs. Dirty Jobs

TV host Mike Rowe on the educational bias against unglamorous, good-paying work

Nick Gillespie | 3.20.2014

Tort Reform: Should Lawmakers Cap Medical Malpractice Damages?

The Florida Supreme Court draws new attention to a systemic problem.

S.M. Oliva | 3.20.2014

Freedom for Me, but Not for Thee

Sen. Dianne Feinstein has no problem with experiments with American liberties, unless she and her staff are the victims.

Andrew Napolitano | 3.20.2014

Why Flounder Over Ukraine When We Can Be Frustrated by Venezuela?

At least this strife-torn country is closer to home, though no easier for outsiders to fix.

J.D. Tuccille | 3.19.2014

Spring Clean the Government

We could move about so much more freely if our lives weren't buried in government's junk.

John Stossel | 3.19.2014

Democrats’ Empty Obamacare Fix-It Strategy

Peter Suderman | 3.19.2014

Don't Republicans Abuse Executive Power?

A flawed indictment of presidential lawlessness

Jacob Sullum | 3.19.2014

Killing of Ukrainian Serviceman Begins 'Military Stage' of Conflict

Zenon Evans | 3.18.2014

Regulating Our Way to Prosperity

According to government math, issuing new rules is the same as minting money.

Roger Meiners | 3.18.2014

Challenge to Barring Medical Marijuana Licensees from Buying Guns Loses in Federal Court [UPDATED]

Brian Doherty | 3.18.2014

New York and California Suck For Taxpayers, and For Freedom

J.D. Tuccille | 3.18.2014

Three Years After US Intervention, Libya's an Even Bigger Disaster

Are these the "#results" Obama wanted?

Gene Healy | 3.18.2014

Five Gun Rights Cases to Watch

What the courts still have to decide about the Second Amendment

Brian Doherty | 3.18.2014

One Pizza, With Extra Federal Handouts

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

Paul Shapiro | 3.18.2014

Obama’s Corporate Bully Pulpit

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

Ira Stoll | 3.17.2014

AWESOME NEW OBAMACARE SITE SHOWS THE WHITE HOUSE REALLY "GETS" MILLENIALS

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

Jesse Walker | 3.17.2014

Weaponizing the IRS

New IRS rules will restrict free speech.

A. Barton Hinkle | 3.17.2014

Obama: Wrong About Income Inequality

The problem is joblessness, not rich people

Ronald Bailey | 3.17.2014

Greg Lukianoff on the Battle for Free Speech on School Campuses

Jim Epstein | 3.16.2014

Paleo Libertarians

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

John Tierney | 3.16.2014

America Is in No Position to Lecture Russia About Imperialism

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

Sheldon Richman | 3.16.2014

Supreme Court To Rule on Cell Phone Privacy

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

Damon Root | 3.15.2014

Thank You, Edward Snowden!

Ronald Bailey | 3.15.2014

Challenge Highlights Flaws in Hawaii's Anti-GMO Law

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

Baylen Linnekin | 3.15.2014

Don't Blame Putin; Blame Russia

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.

David Harsanyi | 3.14.2014

The GOP Is All Noise and No Substance on Ukraine

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

Matthew Feeney | 3.14.2014

Legislators Take Aim at SeaWorld Orca Shows

Steven Greenhut | 3.14.2014

Mourning in America

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

Matt Welch | 3.14.2014

Veronica Mars and Grand Piano

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

Kurt Loder | 3.14.2014

Friday Funnies: Russia Reset

Chip Bok | 3.14.2014

Ukraine: Thousands of Russian Troops at Border, Kerry Demands an End

Zenon Evans | 3.13.2014