Vol. 47 No. 8, January - January 2016
Index
- Apocalypse 2016: the leading candidates to replace Barack Obama think America is going to hell.
- 20 years ago in reason.
- Death by lockup: incompetent incarceration.
- TPP about-face: global trade.
- Food aid follies: shipping regs vs. charity.
- Free "happy birthday"! copyright fight.
- Prohibition kills: spiked heroin.
- Quotes.
- Criminal or gullible? Underage sex.
- Data.
- Online spies: British government tracking.
- Brickbats.
- Crime declines, again: less violence in 2014.
- FDA vs. vaping: kids and e-cigs.
- Sex-offender speech: 1st amendment for all.
- The bible probably isn't on your side.
- Nickel ride payout: police abuse.
- Office politics.
- Simpleminded gun control: like the president, Hillary Clinton assumes we can identify mass shooters before they strike.
- Beyond permissionless innovation: exciting things happen outside the reach of regulators.
- The great escape from poverty: newly minted economics Nobel laureate Angus Deaton worries crony capitalism will kill off economic growth.
- Is your fantasy football squad illegal? a scandal sparks a new effort to regulate daily fantasy sports.
- How Star Wars conquered the galaxy: the economic power of the greatest movie franchise ever.
- Return of the tax credit: a Star Wars expansion at Disneyland helps keep an entertainment fee at bay.
- Should the U.S government build a Death Star? the White House rejects a petition to follow in Darth Vader's footstep.
- The man behind The Martian: bestselling author Andy Weiron politics, commercial space, and the future of publishing.
- Should terminal patients be allowed to try experimental drugs? "Right to Try" laws offer hope for people trying to save their own lives.
- Star Wars, remixed: George Lucas' universe is a mashup masterwork.
- Snowden, sketched.
- Survivor survives.
- Black Panthers vs. the FBI.
- Good stuff comes from the bottom up: how culture, economies, technology, and government evolve.
- The business art of science.
- Harlem's drug warriors: was the drug war imposed on black America, or did black America demand it?
- Antidisestablishmentarianism in action.
- How hate speech laws actually work: an instructive example out of Kenya (and a few from our own backyard).
- Yelp, but for people: reputation ratings will make the world more efficient and transparent.
- Darth Lenin comes to Odessa.