Vol. 46 No. 7, December - December 2014
Index
- Kiss your financial privacy goodbye: American politicians are systemically destroying the right to confidential banking.
- 'Has the "Libertarian moment" finally arrived?'.
- 20 years ago in reason.
- Strip tax nixed: lap dance levies.
- Tic Tac rules: the slow FDA.
- Watch your tweets: Big Brother is monitoring.
- Labor lag: economic policy problems.
- Quotes.
- Taxi cartel clash: Milwaukee cab monopoly.
- Uber? Nein! Germany bans car service.
- Extra credit: school choice in court.
- FAA vs. Airpooler: unfriendly skies.
- How to fight civil forfeiture.
- iPad pain: billion dollar bust.
- Same-sex shindigs: farmers fined.
- Des Moines pharmacist Mark Graziano is already facing federal charges of illegally dispensing painkillers.
- Gregory Towns died after East Poit, Georgia, cops shocked him up to 13 times with a Taser to get him to walk, according to an attorney for his family.
- In Saudi Arabia, religious police beat up a British man after they saw him using a supermarket checkout with a woman as cashier.
- Medicaid malfunctions: more emergency room visits.
- Miranda Larkin, 15, had been attending Florida's Oakleaf High School for only three days, and she didn't realize the school required dresses and skirts to be at least knee length.
- Referees working the football game between Tarkington High School and Splendora High School in Texas have filed a complaint against Liberty County Precinct 5 Constable L.W. DeSpain.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has required all bloggers with at least 3,000 daily readers to register their real names and other personal information.
- The San Diego Police Department seems to have misplaced $1 million seized from drug runners and other accused criminals.
- The Veterans Affairs office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has apologized for an internal training program that compared returning soldiers to Oscar the Grouch.
- Three cops in Coral Springs, Florida, have been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from the union that represents them.
- Burgers and donuts: tax inversion battle.
- Did silver soar?
- NSA assistance: online anonymity.
- Food ban fail: how the cookie crumbles.
- The outback libertarian.
- Obama's dumb, rash, and unilateral war: don't buy the president's lame excuses for attacking ISIS without congressional approval.
- Why don't Americans save their money? We must kill Social Security in order to save retirement.
- Will superintelligent machines destroy humanity? The pitfalls of artificial intelligence.
- Midterm identity crisis: on election eve, the two major parties don't seem to know who they are any more.
- Whatever happened to inflation? A look back at controversial predictions about monetary policy.
- The future of money: four surprising ways we might pay for stuff in the next 15 years.
- How the fed got huge: the financial crisis fundamentally changed the nature of central banking.
- How buying drugs online became safe, easy, and boring: Silk Road is dead, but anonymous Internet sales of illegal substances are here to stay.
- Washington's beautiful, illegal tiny houses: architectural minimalism runs afoul of outdated regulations in the nation's capital.
- Suspicious minds: the '70s saw a strange interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.
- Adult porn.
- Thrown for a loss.
- Rosewater.
- The ghetto archipelago: life in an inner-city police state.
- TV's greatest sleazebag.
- Make your own metro.
- Peter Thiel's start-up manifesto: why the PayPal founder and early Facebook investor loves monopolies, the Founding Fathers, and Lady Gaga.
- Humane and Pro-Growth: a Reason Guide to Immigration Reform.
- Free speech and free jazz: a documentary captures the life of civil libertarian and music critic Nat Hentoff.
- Meet the new warm fuzzy payday lenders: a better approach for a controversial industry.
- Stillborn Utopia.