Vol. 49 No. 5, October - October 2017
Index
- Trump wants to win at trade. He's missing the point. The ultimatum game, the double thank-you, and the politics of global commerce.
- Jeff Sessions, glutton for punishment.
- The rise of atomic humanism.
- Should you tell the cops you have a gun?
- Mississippi's jump-out boys: the police punish people for living in a bad neighborhood.
- John McCain: The anti-Trump.
- Health care costs are the reason you're not getting a raise.
- Self-driving cars are cool, but they're not for everyone; and neither is mass transit.
- Teachers union head casts school choice as racism.
- An expensive experiment with single-payer health care.
- When tin ceilings were high-tech.
- 'Buy American' is un-American.
- When the government declared war on the first amendment.
- Trump cracks down on refugees in Nashville's Little Kurdistan.
- Whiplash and backlash in the republic of Cuba: starvation won't turn Cubans into capitalists. Trade and tourism might.
- Hemp comes home: legal hemp has returned to Kentucky. Will the feds step aside and let the industry flourish?
- Cellphone access has skyrocketed. The world is better for it.
- Interview: Kennedy: the TV host and one-name celeb talks about cherry vodka, teenage rebellion, Frank Zappa, free-range parenting, and life as Fox's token libertarian.
- Government almost killed the cocktail: 80 years after prohibition, the dark ages of drinking are finally coming to an end.
- The great James Buchanan conspiracy: a controversial attack on a libertarian-leaning economist mangles the facts beyond recognition. But the book still has something to teach us.
- Breaking addicts in order to fix them: how Synanon revolutionized drug treatment and poisoned the politics of prohibition.
- George Washington's 'founding war of conquest': the standing army, Native American opposition, and the high cost of territorial expansion.
- Glow.
- My fellow soldiers: Letters from WWI.
- The Simpsons.
- 13 minutes.
- The show that never ends.
- The taste of empire.
- War machine.
- From the archives.
- Documentarian Ken Burns on how Vietnam explains the current political moment.
- Brickbats.