
Stockton, California made history in June 2012 when it became the largest U.S. municipality in history to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy. It wasn’t the first Golden State city to do so, and what’s happening in out west is spreading to the
by Reason TV12 Aug 2012, 4:53 AM PST0

The city of Montreal has been in turmoil for much of 2012, following massive student demonstrations in opposition to a government-imposed hike on university tuitions. While mostly peaceful, some demonstrators resorted to vandalism and blocked access to bridges and schools.
by Reason TV11 Aug 2012, 6:12 AM PST0

“Both parties have equally participated in abandoning the limited role of the federal government,” says Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), whose new book, The Debt Bomb: A Bold Plan to Stop Washington from Bankrupting Our Economy, argues that Republicans and Democrats
by Reason TV21 Jul 2012, 5:07 AM PST0

“What would have cost tens of thousands of dollars…can now be done for hundreds of dollars, so it’s easier to fake stuff now,” warns Roger Bate, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the author of “Phake: The
by Reason TV11 Jun 2012, 10:59 AM PST0

“In the same week that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg was pushing the idea [of banning super-size soft drinks] he also celebrated National Donut Day with the world’s largest box of Entenmann’s donuts that were the size of manhole covers,” says
by Reason TV8 Jun 2012, 11:35 AM PST0

“Liberals are sure they’re in the reality-based community and anyone who disagrees with them either has a bad brain, or in some other way rejects empiricism and science, and they are the only ones working with the building blocks of
by Reason TV2 Jun 2012, 11:06 AM PST0

The Obama-Biden campaign has just released the cartoon slideshow “The Life of Julia,” which takes “a look at how President Obama’s policies help one woman over her lifetime–and how Mitt Romney would change her story.” In our remix of that
by Reason TV4 May 2012, 6:27 AM PST0

On Tuesday, April 24 members of the Occupy movement gathered in DC at the Department of Justice to protest “mass incarceration” of black and Latino youth, demand the release of convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, end the “racist death penalty,” and more. Among
by Reason TV25 Apr 2012, 7:32 AM PST0

How is Washington, D.C. supposed to run the world when it can’t even fix its own escalators? Strap on some steel-toed safety shoes–you’re gonna need them–as Reason.tv correspondent Kennedy investigates D.C.’s dismal and dangerous subway system. Metro, the sprawling 106-mile
by Reason TV14 Apr 2012, 11:08 AM PST0

This month Alabama lawmakers were itching to make it a criminal offense to annoy people online (isn’t that what the interweb is all about?), and a national pollexposed the split personality of Americans who pretend to support individual responsibility, all the while cheering
by Reason TV8 Apr 2012, 7:36 AM PST0

Does the fate of a federal government with limited powers rest in the hands of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia? And if so, will he rule against broad federal powers (as he did in the Gonzales case) or in favor of the
by Reason TV29 Mar 2012, 10:53 AM PST0

“If I was in the Obama administration, I would not be comfortable with how the last three days went.” Reason’s Damon Root was in attendance for the third and final day of oral arguments before the Supreme Court on the
by Reason TV29 Mar 2012, 5:50 AM PST0

Reason’s Damon Root got a coveted seat for the Supreme Court oral arguments on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Day one of this epic judicial showdown focused primarily on whether or not the individual mandate constitutes a
by Reason TV26 Mar 2012, 8:26 PM PST0

As the legality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – a.k.a. Obamacare – goes before the highest court in the land, here are three reasons to chuck the whole program even before it gets underway. 1. It Represents
by Reason TV25 Mar 2012, 7:23 AM PST0
Norman Smith seemed to be making progress in his liver cancer recovery at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, Calif. He had some of the best doctors in the world, he was on a transplant list and he had completed a
by Reason TV29 Feb 2012, 8:30 PM PST0
“Considering that we had this big Tea Party movement in 2010, there has been very little talk about actually cutting spending,” says American Enterprise Institute’s James Pethokoukis, “except that Mitt Romney doesn’t want a lunar colony.” Pethokoukis is a former
by Reason TV29 Feb 2012, 4:01 PM PST0
“What would happen if there was a Republican nominee who wants to legalize heroin running against Barack Obama – who’s cracking down on the war on drugs?” asks Reason’s Matt Welch. “More than for any other reason,” says Welch, “that’s why it’s going to make
by Reason TV24 Feb 2012, 7:09 PM PST0
“They…come in with weapons, they seized a half-million dollars worth of property, they shut our factory down, and they have not charged us with anything,” says Gibson Guitars CEO Henry Juszkiewicz, referring to the August 2011 raid on his Nashville
by Reason TV23 Feb 2012, 2:39 PM PST0
The city of Harrisburg is Ground Zero for America’s municipal debt crisis. Pennsylvania’s capital city has liabilities estimated at $610 million, which is nearly 10 times its annual budget. The city is so deep in the red that last year it
by Reason TV16 Feb 2012, 1:28 PM PST0
“The fall of the (Berlin) Wall only occurred 20 years ago. It’s very recent, but it’s very important, perhaps one of the most important historical events of our age,” says Justinian Jampol, the founder and Executive Director of the Los
by Reason TV14 Feb 2012, 1:46 PM PST0
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89kx4hBrBrE] “The new debate in the Republican party needs to be between conservatives and libertarians,” says Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). “A lot of the libertarian ideas that Ron Paul is talking about…should not be alien to any Republican.” Yet
by Reason TV7 Feb 2012, 12:01 PM PST0
Chicago tried banning it. Now California wants to do the same. But what’s so controversial about foie gras, the fattened liver of a duck or goose that many diners consider a delicacy? “Foie gras is universally cruel,” says animal rights
by Reason TV2 Feb 2012, 7:01 PM PST0
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGIoDTtUS80] “When you look at government policies, there’s a massive transfer of wealth from the young and relatively poor members of society toward the old and relatively members of society,” says Veronique de Rugy, a Reason magazine columnist and
by Reason TV1 Feb 2012, 7:31 PM PST0
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzX4pDYAhmE&list=PL2DD00E99B83A258A] This month’s killjoys are bent on making the Big Apple dry (or not?), and banning electronic (a.k.a. “fake”) cigarettes from public places (wait, isn’t the anti-smoking movement supposed to help addicts kick the habit?). But the new year’s
by Reason TV1 Feb 2012, 1:26 PM PST0
[youtube kG28GvQz6UA nolink] Everybody and their brother – even Stephen Colbert – is freaking out about “super PACs,” which are an outgrowth of the Citizens United decision in 2010. Traditional political action committees (PACs) are subject to federal limits on
by Reason TV26 Jan 2012, 2:34 PM PST0