Vol. 47 No. 4, August - August 2015
Index
- Flamin' Hot Cheetos are the American dream: I disapprove of what you eat, but I'll defend to the death your right to eat it.
- 30 years ago in Reason.
- Campus sex fight: Columbia sued.
- Riots in Baltimore: death by police.
- Military surplus: DOD inventory, overstocked.
- Pro-life loss: D.C. discrimination law.
- Quotes.
- Say my name: no-fly list opened up.
- Stage wages: actors against regulation.
- Dive into the deep web.
- Doc fix deal: bipartisan budget buster.
- Brickbats.
- Forfeiture reform: new rules for New Mexico.
- Alt power from art to business.
- V.A. swindle: data breached.
- 70 years of dubious federal food rules.
- When your records are not yours: two cases highlight the precariousness of privacy.
- Two burritos for breakfast: I don't need mandatory food labels to tell me McDonald's isn't health food. And neither do you.
- Chipotle treats customers like idiots: the burrito chain stokes bogus GMO fears and tries to profit from anti-biotech propaganda.
- Drop that snack! L.A.'s long war against working-class people eating tamales, tacos, Cheetos, and other tasty food.
- The FDA wants to ruin your treats: trans fats make donuts and popcorn delicious. Soon they may be illegal.
- Turf war: Americans are fighting for their right to garden.
- Spilled milk: a brief history of the dairy lobby's unwholesome influence on the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Why does Cadbury chocolate taste worse In America? An overzealous FDA and a bitter trademark battle keep British expats from enjoying their favorite sweets.
- Geoffrey Zakarian: in praise of free enterprise food: the celebrity chef talks about America's food revolution, and the overzealous regulators who threaten it.
- Food freedom in 2015: the good news and bad news about culinary choice in America.
- San Francisco's private police force: the city by the Bay has a second, private police force--with a better record than the government cops.
- Bulldozing the future: how New York City's 50-year-old Landmarks Preservation Act prevents tomorrow's great architecture.
- The unbearable awfulness of campaign lit: we read seven 2016 presidential wannabes' books so you don't have to.
- Highlights from the 2016 campaign literature.
- Rulebreaking made Silicon Valley.
- Selma and Baltimore.
- Oysters vs. the State: the fight to save a California oyster farm from the National Park Service.
- Posthuman page-turner.
- Making money from music.
- Secret foreign policy is bad for democracy: and bad foreign policy is just plain bad.
- Green fairy in the Big Easy.
- Spies, lies, and the underground: a new book shines some light on the violent radicals of the 1970s but misses their biggest impact on American politics.
- Battlefield: cake - the rapidly evolving fight over gay marriage, anti-discrimination laws, and free speech.
- A new life for old food: how technology reduces waste by getting excess edibles to those who can still use them.
- Illegal underwater wine.