Vol. 47 No. 1, May - May 2015
Index
- The net neutrality riddle: why are Edward Snowden's supporters so eager to give government more control over the Internet?
- 15 years ago in reason.
- Fiat parenting: overeager CPS.
- Misfiled marijuana: pot reclassification.
- Beard ban cut: religious freedom win.
- Boosted jobs: unemployment insurance.
- Media spies: British snooping.
- Plastic panic: re-evaluating BPA.
- Quotes.
- Back on the menu: foie gras unbanned.
- Faux fixes: justice reform.
- The loss of trust in government & politics.
- After a brush fire destroyed a bridge to his Kinglake, Australia, property in 2009, Anthony McMahon got tired of waiting for the government to rebuild it.
- Churchill Academy in North Somerset, England, placed 13-year-old Stan Lock in isolation from other students after he shaved his head for charity.
- Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell has apologized to the entire police force for comments in the latest issue of a monthly newsletter published by the department's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender liaison officer.
- Jury rules: leaker convicted.
- Mississippi's medical licensing board is trying to revoke Dr. Carroll Landrum's license.
- Officials in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, received a complaint that an entrance to Romare Bearden Park wasn't handicapped accessible.
- Siegfried Meinstein has been dead since April, and he's not happy about it.
- The Ecuadoran government is using U.S. law to silence its critics.
- Three students at the University of California, Davis, placed a community refrigerator on their lawn and invited neighbors to use it.
- When Steven Patterson found two baby eagles that had been blown out of a tree, he took them to a wildlife rehabilitation center.
- App challenged: cops fight back.
- Free and fair: economic freedom.
- Student loan deja vu.
- Password powers: school privacy.
- The year the future started.
- Begging to die: the curiously circumscribed suicide right recognized by Canada's Supreme Court.
- The online sales tax cash grab: as states lunge for dot-com money, Congress threatens to get into the act.
- Minimum wage and magical thinking: no one can defy the law of demand.
- How to break the Internet: the biggest threat to the net isn't cable companies. It's government.
- Uncle Sam wants your Fitbit: the fight for Internet freedom gets physical.
- Bitcoin and the cypherpunks: will recent breakthroughs in computer science make truly free markets a reality?
- 'A solution that won't work to a problem that simply doesn't exist': Maverick FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai on why net neutrality and government attempts to regulate the Internet are all wrong.
- Taking comics to the people: artists are using new platforms to bypass gatekeepers and grow the comic book industry.
- Unpacking Obamacare: how the president's signature law came into effect, and what might come next.
- Girls pulls the trigger.
- Dylan in Shadows.
- Diplomatic games.
- Bill Bennett's pot prevarications: a former drug czar's dazed and confused defense of marijuana prohibition.
- The spies who hated U.S.
- Edwardian zines.
- Is another financial crisis on the way? We didn't learn the lessons of the last crisis. Does that mean we're doomed to repeat it?
- The misguided war on sexting: America is taking a punitive approach to teens who send each other explicit messages--and it's backfiring.
- Helpful hackers vs. college regulators: why are state governments cracking down on innovative coding academies?
- Teddy bears vs. the state.