Reason Magazine

The ObamaCare Fraud

Shikha Dalmia | December 31, 2010

The law will penalize doctors to pay patients and penalize patients to pay doctors.

Nick Gillespie: "Enjoy Your Rights While You Still Can"

Nick Gillespie | December 30, 2010

Speaking at the Independent Institute's 8th Annual "ATF" Party

2010: The Year John Cage Broke

Jesse Walker | December 30, 2010

Amateur producers and unexpected music

The Year in Books

December 30, 2010

Reason staffers pick the best books of 2010

Please Stop "Helping" Us

John Stossel | December 30, 2010

How consumer protection laws harm consumers

Reason.tv's Greatest Hits in 2010!

Nick Gillespie | December 29, 2010

Attack ads, TSA follies, Beck/Stewart rallies, dramatic Olbermann vs. dramatic chipmunk, & more.

Blue Valentine

Kurt Loder | December 29, 2010

Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams undone by the mysteries of love.

Follow the Bouncing Buck

Jacob Sullum | December 29, 2010

The year's highlights in blame shifting

Carbon Rationing By Other Means

Ronald Bailey | December 28, 2010

After Congress fails to regulate greenhouse gasses, the president hands the job over to the EPA

Reason.tv: "We Need a Libertarian Che Guevara"

December 28, 2010

Activist Starchild on Ron Paul, Ayn Rand & San Fran's Street-Level Libertarianism.

Briefly Noted Books, Movies, Television, and More

December 28, 2010

Privacy chic, outlaw bikers, William Gibson's Zero History, an unwitting libertarian documentary, and TV Carnage

The Power Politics of the Prize

Michael C. Moynihan | January 2011

The Nobel for literature is about more than literature.

From Yuck to Yippee

Ronald Bailey | January 2011

The public learns to love a once controversial technology—again.

Freedom to Fail

Peter Suderman | January 2011

Jonathan Franzen ponders the glories and limits of American freedom.

The Death Penalty On the Wane

Steve Chapman | December 27, 2010

Is it time to abolish capital punishment?

A Reason Holiday Sampler

Nick Gillespie | December 24, 2010

Joe Biden, Christopher Hitchens, Electric Football, & Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

Penny Reign

Tim Cavanaugh | January 2011

America’s least valuable coin endures.

Friday Funnies

Henry Payne | December 24, 2010

Merry Christmas!

Culture Shock

Greg Beato | January 2011

How joy buzzers, trick chairs, and other prank devices helped manufacture the post-industrial American male

Uncle Sam Will Help Buy You an Alpaca

John Stossel | December 23, 2010

How the government produces negative unintended consequences

Surveying the State of Global Freedom

Steve Chapman | December 23, 2010

In 2010, the world stalled on the road to democracy

Julian Assange, Feminism, and Rape

Cathy Young | December 22, 2010

How the WikiLeaks founder shined the spotlight on the debate over sex, rape, and consent.

The Never-Ending "Business of Centralization"

Damon W. Root | December 22, 2010

What’s wrong with placing a few limits on federal power?

Why the Feds Banned Four Loko (And is your favorite drink next?)

December 22, 2010

Save the Net

David Harsanyi | December 22, 2010

Abolish the FCC

True Grit

Kurt Loder | December 22, 2010

The Coen brothers score, Jeff Bridges shines, and a star is born.

Is Julian Assange a Journalist?

Jacob Sullum | December 22, 2010

For First Amendment purposes, it doesn't matter.

What the Frack!

Ronald Bailey | December 21, 2010

The war over a natural gas production technology flames up

Porkers of the Month for December 2010

December 21, 2010