Vol. 44 No. 1, May - May 2012
Index
- Why big government is offensive: the faster the state expands, the more likely it is to violate your values.
- A Twinkle of Hope.
- Fixing America's Freeways.
- How Much is an Astronaut's Life Worth?
- Reaction.
- Every move you make: how new surveillance technologies threaten privacy.
- 30 years ago in reason.
- Camera crime: Bogus Boston bust.
- Drano Danger? Chemical sale crackdown.
- Party pooper: breathable-caffeine ban.
- Iran Online: my own private Internet.
- Lying eyes: unreliable witnesses.
- Quotes.
- Train wreck: high speed derailed.
- Innovators without borders.
- Speed limits: where's the Adderall?
- Weed and weapons: patients lose gun rights.
- A woman who was not named in news accounts has sued the Las Cruces, New Mexico, police department for $1,222, the amount she was charged by a local hospital for a forcible body cavity search ordered by the police.
- Chippewa cash: Indians offer payday loans.
- Georgia State Trooper Donald Crozier was involved in a collision that left one woman dead.
- Just weeks after Kelie Barnes testified against the Tulsa Police Department in a corruption trial, five Tulsa police officers arrested heron several misdemeanor traffic citations dating back to 2007.
- Officials in Gilbert, Arizona, have paid $37,500 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Kelly Shea.
- The company that runs the Marlborough Airport in Massachusetts has sued the federal government.
- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has posted a letter on its website warning employers that requiring a high school diploma for workers may violate the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
- Whales for sale: sell them to save them.
- When Ginger Strivelli's 12-year-old son came home from school with a Gideon Bible, she called the Weaverville, North Carolina, school he attended to ask whether that violated the Constitution.
- While investigating a possible domestic dispute, a DeKalb County, Georgia, police officer shot and killed a family's dog.
- Fixing the unbroken Internet.
- Medican't: pilot programs fail.
- Unwanted ministers: religious freedom upheld.
- Bubble mentality: political polarization online.
- Economic freedom: China up, U.S. down.
- The gun explosion: why the firearms boom is good news for the American economy.
- Taxation, American style: the U.S. tax code is more progressive and European than you think.
- Born this way? Nature, nurture, narratives, and the making of our political personalities.
- Financial crisis II: European governments fail to learn from history.
- "The new debate in the Republican Party needs be between conservatives and libertarians": Sen. Jim DeMint talks about the looming fiscal crisis and the future of the GOP.
- Can censorship stop bioterrorism? Open science is the best defense against a deadly avian flu attack.
- Delta Dawn: how Sears, Roebuck & Co. midwifed the birth of the blues.
- Mitt the Marauder.
- Driven to drink.
- Arab Spring 3.0: what's more revolutionary in the Middle East: Facebook or porn?
- Worse than Hitler.
- Taft for president!(Briefly Noted) (Taft 2012) (Brief article) (Book review)
- Anarchy in the usA.
- Mad enough to lead: the insanity of politicians and the politics of insanity.
- Barney Rosset, RIP: his Grove Press made us smarter, sexier, and more free.
- Bad apples: the myth of the highly skilled public-service elite.
- Fire, Firefly, and the First Amendment.