Vol. 41 No. 1, May 2009
Index
- Obama's double-talk: while the president talks sobriety, his policies take America on an economic bender.
- Bush's Midnight Regulations.
- Who's Your Daddy?
- Bongs Away!(Letters) (Letter to the editor)
- Corrections.
- The indefinite future of indefinite detention: President Obama may close Guantanamo, but the policy it represents will continue.
- 35 years ago in reason.
- Conservation theater: as green as an SUV tow truck.
- Pennsylvania railroad: juvenile court corruption.
- Bag check: Metro search and seizure.
- Connecticut vs. Cuba: communist cabs.
- Quotes.
- Citizen empowerment.
- Hips abroad: medical outsourcing.
- Overstimulating K-12: education spending.
- The nose knows: thirdhand smoke alarm.
- After 6-year-old Natalie Shea drew some pictures with chalk on the sidewalk in front of her Brooklyn home, the Department of Sanitation sent her parents a letter.
- China's culture ministry says it will ban professional performers from miming, lip syncing, or pretending to play musical instruments.
- Florida's Tri-Rail commuter train service faces a budget deficit.
- Jasbir Singh said he just wanted to show his support for the police when he placed a police union bumper sticker on his car.
- Lone Star College threatened to place the Young Conservatives of Texas on probation after the group distributed a flier listing a tongue-in-cheek "Top Ten Gun Safety Tips.".
- Martin Ryan starved to death over 26 days in a National Health Service hospital in England.
- Pennsylvania has banned smoking in private homes and vehicles used for child care services.
- Raegan Booth, 16, and Aby Western, 15, were sent home from Rednock School in England and told not to come back until they dyed their hair brown.
- Storm ahead: financial crisis fact sheet.
- To fight terrorism, the British government has proposed a national database of all cell phone owners.
- Walter Andre Sharpe Jr. has been jailed four times since 2001, lost his job, and had more than $12,000 taken from him to support the child of a different Andre Sharpe with a different date of birth, address, and Social Security number.
- 'Sexting' scare: cell phone follies.
- Goodbye, Gitmo.
- MySpace = safe space: predator panic debunked.
- The raw deal.
- I'm so bored with the NEA: artists demand "stimulus" subsidies.
- When do deficits matter? While Democrats and Republicans switch sides, economists try to pin down a tipping point.
- Failed states: after a long spending binge, governors go begging for a handout. It won't be their last.
- Will we be stimulated? Economists sound off on Obama's stimulus package.
- Blowing the whistle on the house of death: DEA dissenter Sandy Gonzalez reveals the drug war's complicity in torture and murder south of the border.
- The politics of superheroes: want a map of the debates of the early 21st century? Watch a comic-book movie.
- Foie fight.
- The development dilemma: can parking tickets explain why poor countries are poor?
- Power pestering.
- Choosing our own future: will we greet new technologies with more regulation or more liberty?
- Punk/metal rules!(Briefly Noted) (This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk ) (Brief article) (Book review)
- Secret lives, fictional sex.
- News that stays news.
- Yesterday is tomorrow: revisiting Annie as a new New Deal dawns.
- Don't measure me, bro: why broadcasters fear accurate audience ratings.
- Hating Milton Friedman.