Vol. 43 No. 10, March - March 2012
Index
- Catching up with independents: the voters who keep fleeing the two major parties are giving libertarianism a try.
- The Simpletons.
- Indefinite Detention: does the president have the power to imprison anyone he says is a terrorist?
- 25 years ago in reason.
- First Amendment punch-out: right to fight.
- Pizza: vegetable? School lunch rules.
- Grocers vs. government: state liquor monopoly overturned.
- Hot meals: feeding a warming world.
- Marketing medicaid: health care costs.
- Penalty shots: harsh federal sentences.
- Quotes.
- Repairing higher ed.
- Unhappy birthday, TSA: bureaucracy turns 10.
- White teeth: free markets in dentistry.
- Yacht for teacher: public school salary bump.
- A New York City sanitation worker spotted Darbe Pitofsky tossing some old newspapers in a sidewalk trash can and chased her down.
- A Richmond County, Georgia, deputy assigned to a DUI task force has admitted faking some readings from a portable Breathalyzer.
- Bumper cop: warrantless GPS tracking.
- New York City police charged artist Andy Golub with public exposure and lewdness for applying body paint to nude models in Times Square.
- Steven Roth, a special education teacher at New Jersey's Bankbridge Regional School, has been placed on administrative leave after being caught on video bullying one of his students.
- The Argentine government has filed criminal charges against MyS Consultores for publishing numbers.
- The assistant principal of Florida's Orange River Elementary School called the Collier County Sheriff's Office and the abuse hotline of the state Department of Children and Families (DCF) to report the following "possible sex crime".
- Transportation Security Administration agent Nelson Santiago has been charged with stealing $50,000 worth of electronics from passengers as they passed through Florida's Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
- Who has access to your prescription drug records?
- After Napster: more piracy, better music?
- Housing bailout redux.
- Spared change: contributions vs. influence.
- Cash out: illegal tender.
- Contract cities in California.
- Aliens vs. bureaucrats: our costly, record-breaking system for dealing with illegal immigrants.
- The invincible military-industrial complex: Leon Panetta's dream is Eisenhower's nightmare.
- Consultant in chief: instead of planning to cut government, Mitt Romney is repackaging the same old Republicanism.
- Warren Buffett: Baptist and bootlegger: how America's favorite billionaire plays politics to make money.
- Fixing America's freeways: the private sector is reinventing our expressways, one lane at a time.
- Kicking the can on climate change surprise! Nations agree to keep talking about emission reductions for another year.
- Triumph of the willpower: New York Times science writer John Tierney on what marshmallow-eating kids can teach us about political sex scandals, the financial crisis, replacing God with technology, and clearing out our inboxes.
- All the poop that's news.
- Reading is fundamental (for some).
- First-person shooter.
- Keynes vs. Hayek, oversimplified: missing the point on the economic battle of the century.
- The allure of anarchy.
- Inventing America's past.
- Bioconservatives vs. bioprogressives: opposition to the technologies that make life longer, healthier, and happier creates strange bedfellows.
- How to save a tree house from a zoning board: Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their sons take on local bureaucracy.
- Washington's lousy real estate portfolio: federal housing bureaucracies are failing. They need to fail faster.
- Tears of the son.