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Brian Doherty

Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. He is author of three books This is Burning Man (2004, Little, Brown; paperback BenBella, 2006) and Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs, 2007), and Gun Control on Trial (Cato Institute, 2008).

Doherty's reporting and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, Spin, National Review, The Weekly Standard, San Francisco Chronicle and dozens of other publications, and he has been a commentator on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor and CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck Show.

He ran a small indie record label, Cherry Smash Records, from 1993-2001, and has lived in Los Angeles since July 1994.

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Only 41 Pot Dispensaries Legal, City Insists
The L.A. city attorney's office says it has done all its research on how many existing pot dispensaries are still legal under the new June ordinance, which allows 70 to exist, and found only 41. And instead of waiting to be sued over this conclusion, t...
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Radical Action Plan for Pension Crisis
The Daily News has found enormous citizen dissatisfaction over employee pay and pensions in city government, and offers some difficult but likely necessary solutions.
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Teachers Unions Miffed at L.A. Times
The L.A. Times is publishing a series that attempts to link specific teachers performance to elementary students test scores--and local teachers unions got so mad they called for a boycott of the paper.
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Villaraigosa's Green Initiatives: Failing, Or Just Slow?
Mayor Villaraigosa promised when first elected to turn L.A. into "the greenest big city in America," but it isn't looking like he's succeeded, at least not yet.
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The State Tries to Crack Down on Exorbitant Local Official Salaries
In the wake of the city of Bell's salary scandal, California's State Assembly is considering a bill that would punish localities that give their local officials pay that the attorney general considers unreasonable.
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Villaraigosa's Staff: Big, and Not Shrinking
Mayor Villaraigosa has an office staff more than 70 percent larger than his predecessor James Hahn.
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Councilman Alarcon Charged with Fradulent Residency
After a long investigation, a grand jury assembled from L.A. county district attorney Steve Cooley's office hit councilman and former state senator Richard Alarcon with charges, claiming he does not live where he claims residency for voting (and counci...
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Prop 8 Overturned by Federal Judge
A federal judge has overturned Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage amendment, on the grounds that it violates citizens rights to equal treatment under the law.
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New State Death Penalty Plan Challenged in Court
California has seen no executions since 2006, and a new lawsuit by a Death Row inmate challenging a new set of execution procedures meant to get the practice rolling again may continue to delay them.
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L.A. Reacts to Arizona Law with Demonstrations
Although a federal judge has stayed aspects of Arizona's new laws aimed at requirement immigrants to present papers, L.A. city is keeping its boycott, and angry L.A. citizens are hitting the street.
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City of Bell's Salary Scandal Expands
City officials in Bell have come under fire in the past week for salaries among the highest in the nation for comparable positions--and their troubles have now expanded to a full-fledged investigation from L.A. County's D.A. into voting fraud and confl...
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Cortines to Leave L.A. Unified, and A Record of Fiscal Problems
As L.A. Unified School District chief Ramon Cortines announces he's on the way out, audits showing huge losses in textbook management arise--amid criticism of the expenses of the Cortines transition.
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