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Super-fan President Barack Obama makes a guest appearance on a very special episode of Mythbusters this week. But will he still like Jamie and Adam after they bust his first two years in office? Check out this super-secret Reason.tv trailer

From radio and film to newspapers and publishing, the Nazi regime controlled every aspect of German culture from 1933-1945. Through Josef Goebbels’ Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, the German state tightly controlled political messaging, promoting deification of the leader–the

This month nannies banned beverages that mix booze with caffeine and one top official even hinted that the feds may disable cell phones in cars. But this time top dishonors go to the heartland mayor who sacked the Lingerie Football

The Pilgrims founded their colony at Plymouth Plantation in December 1620 and promptly started dying off in droves. As the colony’s early governor, William Bradford, wrote in “Of Plymouth Plantation“: That which was most sadd & lamentable was, that in

As Epstein told Reason in a 1995 interview, “I took some pride in the fact that [Sen.] Joe Biden (D-Del.) held a copy of Takings up to a hapless Clarence Thomas back in 1991 and said that anyone who believes

Warning: Immature Subject Matter. Viewer discretion is advised Approximately 75 seconds “44 Ways to Say TSA” is produced by Ted Balaker, edited by Austin Bragg, and written by Balaker, Bragg, Hawk Jensen, Alex Manning, Jacob Sullum, and Zach Weissmueller. Related

Cameron Poe is back, and he’s getting an enhanced pat down (just like you). This holiday travel season, we’re all convicts. Approximately 30 seconds. “Con Air 2010 (TSA Remix)” is written and produced by Ted Balaker. Related video: Coming Soon

This summer armed government agents raided Rawesome Foods, a Venice, California health food co-op. What were the agents after? Unpasteurized milk, it turns out. Raw milk raids are happening all over the United States. The Food and Drug Administration warns

You’ve heard about the passenger who opted out of a full-body scan (a.k.a. “a virtual strip search”) and was subjected to an intrusive and humiliating pat down. “If you touch my junk, I’ll have you arrested,” passenger John Tyner told

Few industries are more reviled than payday lending, which primarily services the working poor by offering short-term loans at high interest rates. Payday customers borrow an average of $350 for a period of two weeks, or until their next paycheck

Reason.tv presents a tribute to Keith Olbermann, who was suspended indefinitely by MSNBC for violating company ethics policies by making unauthorized donations to three Democrats seeking federal office earlier this year. He will be missed.

Last month the food police sued a North Carolina man for growing fresh vegetables, and this month San Francisco’s food cops have committed a different kind of atrocity by making the City by the Bay the first major metropolis to

President Obama is on the campaign trail warning voters about “returning to the very same policies that failed us during the last decade.” If he’s talking about bailouts, ineffective stimulus packages, and massive government spending, then we won’t be returning

Reason.tv was on hand for the Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear hosted by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert at the National Mall in Washington on Saturday, October 30. The crowd was huge, the weather fine, the signs memorable, and

The Great Recession officially ended way back in June of 2009, so why are so many Americans still out of work? It’s not because politicians were twiddling their thumbs. Indeed, from from bailouts to “Cash for Clunkers” to the massive

Have this year’s negative political ads really “taken dirty to a whole new level, as CNN’s Anderson Cooper frets? Is a “return to civility…a relic of a bygone era,” as President Barack Obama laments? Er, not exactly. If anonymous political

Today’s tea party movement germinated from local taxpayer groups focused on issues like school spending and property taxes, according to Steve Malanga, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and author of the new book, Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against

On November 2, 2010, California voters will decide whether or not to legalize marijuana. If passed, Proposition 19 would control marijuana like alcohol, allowing adults 21 years of age and over to possess up to an ounce of pot for

To hear the Obama administration tell it, there are few things worse than anonymous political activity. Just recently, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the Christian Science Monitor: The untold story of 2010 is not the “tea party”

Donald Abrams, M.D. is chief of Hematology and Oncology at San Francisco General Hospital and the co-author–with Andrew Weil–of Integrative Oncology (Oxford University Press). Abrams has extensive experience working with cancer and HIV/AIDS patients and is a pioneer in the

Detroit has become a place Hollywood directors come for great wreckage shots. One quarter of the city’s 140 square miles are deserted. Detroit public school students boast the nation’s worst reading scores, the products of a corruption-ridden school system that

President Barack Obama is making his bid to be “the education president.” At the start of NBC’s recent Education Nation summit in New York, Obama appeared on the Today Show and touted what he claimed were a wide-ranging set of

“[Politicians and the Federal Reserve] rigged the market,” says financial author and filmmaker Michael Covel. “They rigged the market through interest rate manipulation and we’re still paying for it today.” In his documentary, Broke: The New American Dream, Covel explores