Vol. 46 No. 9, February - February 2015
Index
- It's not just about race, it's about power: rethinking policing after the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
- Let's play God!(Letters) (Letter to the editor)
- Reaction.
- The new face of television.
- 20 years ago in reason.
- Drug war poseurs.
- Pandemic panic.
- Club fed.
- Law School revolt.
- Plea circus.
- Quotes.
- Taxpayers no longer.
- Knife fight.
- Pension precedent.
- Pressuring the press.
- United States of emergency.
- A Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- A Spanish court has ordered a man, who wasn't named by local media, to continue paying child support to his 29-year-old daughter.
- Alaska's Anchorage School District banned military recruiters from campus after female students complained that some were making sexual or romantic advances toward them.
- Bail for immigrants.
- Five police agencies in southeast Virginia have been collecting and sharing telephone records since 2012.
- Former Maryland Transit Authority driver Karen Murphy is facing multiple charges of assault and conspiracy after allegedly arranging for a gang of youths to attack a family riding on her bus.
- In Kentucky, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission ruled Hand On Originals violated the city's fairness ordinance when it refused to print T-shirts for the Lexington Pride Festival.
- Mickey Stone faces up to a year in jail for buying a lottery ticket.
- New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletics Association Executive Director Steve Timko says Summit High School's practice of plugging a hole in a football locker room door with a banana "did not appear to be driven by racism or bias".
- Parents of some students at St. Mary's Church of England Primary School in Kidderminster are upset their children were excluded from a taxpayer-funded field trip to a petting zoo because they speak English.
- Airbnb vs. NYC.
- Space setback.
- Too much public health.
- Cheapskate socialists.
- In defense of partying.
- District of Cannabis: how will Congress respond to marijuana legalization in the nation's capital?
- The Congress that cried wolf: it's time for lawmakers to stop abusing the emergency-spending loophole.
- Kill pixels, not people: exploding the fake scientific consensus on violent video games.
- Ted Cruz: loose cannon or libertarian reformer? The Texas senator might be just crazy enough to win the GOP presidential nomination.
- 10 things the new GOP Congress should--and can!--do: the reason policy agenda for 2015-2016.
- Let (a lot more of) them in.
- Who's going to pay for new highways?
- Glenn Greenwald: the outsider: the anti-establishment journalist who midwifed the Edward Snowden revelations talks about surveillance, reporting, and new fault lines in American politics.
- California's 'cruel and unusual' prisons: despite court orders and ballot initiatives, Golden State prisons remain criminally overcrowded.
- Inside Stalin's head: a biography offers fresh insights on one of history's bloodiest dictators.
- Future tense.
- American Drone.
- Venerating Lincoln: a history of Abraham Lincoln's critics would be improved if the author weren't so smitten with Lincoln himself.
- After the oil rush.
- Witch woman's blessing.
- Are demographics destiny? Self-interest, sex, snakes, and the making of our political preferences.
- Gandhi vs. the Mafia: an anti-crime crusade conducted by neither cops nor vigilantes.
- Big sugar leaves a bitter aftertaste: it's time to end the sugar industry's corrupt sweetheart deals.
- Ted Cruz, superhero.