Vol. 45 No. 5, October 2013
Index
- Be paranoid: we're only beginning to learn what the executive branch can do to us.
- Correction.
- Reaction.
- Spending: a bipartisan love story.
- The blank slate state.
- Obama's flip-flop on spying: how the president learned to stop worrying and love unaccountable surveillance.
- The GOP flirts with class warfare: will Republicans abandon Ronald Reagan's principles for Rick Santorum's populism?
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Count to seven: N.Y. gun control.
- Royal Mail revolution: British privatization.
- Disappearing books: copyright's costs.
- Fixed rates: student loan fight.
- Quotes.
- Sex talk ban: campus speech restrictions.
- Permission to close: French labor fight.
- Salt and light: risks of less sodium.
- Stimulus crowd-out: government spending and jobs.
- The Court and the Castle Doctrine.
- A Russian judge resigned after video showed him apparently sleeping during a trial.
- Hurricane helpers: few turn to feds for aid.
- In Canada, Earl's Restaurants has agreed to drop its Albino Rhino beer following a complaint to the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.
- Johnny Cook, who drove a bus for the Haralson County, Georgia, school system, got upset when a middle school student told him he didn't get to eat because his lunch card was 40 cents short.
- Mansfield, Louisiana, police officer Tamara Jackson Brown has been charged with domestic violence, aggravated battery, and unauthorized entry after beating her husband.
- Officials in Yavapai County, Arizona, have ordered David Smith to remove a nine-foot statue of a gargoyle from his yard or cover its genitalia.
- Teachers at Bronx Intermediate School 232 say principal Neifi Juan Acosta threatened to blow the school up during a rant filled with biblical allusions at a staff meeting.
- The state of Georgia recently imposed stricter documentation standards on residents seeking to obtain or renew a driver's license.
- The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles has names, addresses, and other personal information about millions of drivers.
- Federal guns gone: Uncle Sam's missing weapons.
- Happy families now even more alike.
- Permission to pack: concealed carry in Illinois.
- Take that fifth: SCOTUS and self-incrimination.
- Too many secrets.
- Bipartisan corporate welfare: it's time for the Export-Import Bank to go.
- Be very afraid: what we should have known about government spying before Edward Snowden's leak, why even innocent people have plenty to fear, and what you can do about it.
- Drones away: the peril and promise of unmanned aerial vehicles, at home and abroad.
- Executive branch 'dictatorship': Dirty Wars author Jeremy Scahill on rendition, torture, drones, and how American power operates beyond the law.
- Does the royal baby deserve genetic privacy? Revelations about the British princeling's ancestry should remind us that DNA testing is no big deal.
- America the paranoid: from the man who tried to shoot Andrew Jackson to The War of the Worlds, a brief history of political paranoia.
- Defense of Homeland.
- A nation of guns.
- Tips of the drug trade.
- Death, be proud.
- The endless lives of Iain M. Banks: the late science fiction novelist grappled with a fundamental existential--and libertarian--question.
- Elaine goes to Washington.
- Big labor stumbles in Wisconsin: in a showdown with Gov. Scott Walker, democracy is the big winner.
- Humane and Pro-Growth: A Reason Guide to Immigration Reform.
- Philip K. Dick's visions: the surveillance state's complicated prophet.
- Replacing street lights with glowing trees: a tale of crowdsourced DIY bioengineering.
- A font to discourage NSA snooping.