The news business has fundamentally changed since Brian Williams and Jon Stewart took over NBC Nightly News and The Daily Show.
Nick Gillespie
Nick Gillespie is the editor in chief of Reason.com and Reason.tv and the co-author with Matt Welch of The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America.
Especially weather that is totally in keeping with the seasons in which it’s taking place.
Before the speech slides down the memory hole, here are five moments to remember and then forget again until next year.
Displays of religiosity have become increasingly public and de riguer in GOP politics, but the reality is that Americans are turning away from organized religion
Opponents of the delicacy shouldn't use the state to force their subjective value judgments on those who have a taste for things they find abhorrent
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Here are five trends that grew in 2014 and will continue to gain steam this year—and through the rest of the decade.
Reading hacked emails is hardly any better than being a Peeping Tom.
Want fewer avoidable deaths and potentially angry protests? Then get more video from every possible angle
The company once fought unfair regulation—now it wants its own.
“Net Neutrality” is a clever phrase but a dumb policy.
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The next two years are the Republicans’ time—if they use it wisely.
Face it: marijuana is legal, crime is down, traffic fatalities are declining and fewer teens are lighting up
Is there anything more distasteful than the obviously strategic use of babies by the rich and powerful to gild their images?
Holder exists to protect the president and his policies. Worse, his successor will almost certainly take up exactly where he leaves off.
No company, even one as worshiped by its fans as Apple, is ever more than a couple of flops away from being cast into furnace of hell.
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