Vol. 44 No. 11, April - April 2013
Index
- Toward a libertarian foreign policy: Rand Paul moves the ball on a long- overdue project.
- Intern at reason.
- Reaction.
- Your cellphone is spying on you.
- Barack the unmerciful: Obama's amazingly stingy clemency record.
- 20 years ago in reason.
- Bottle ban: wicked water regs.
- Intruder alert: stop-and-frisk restrictions.
- Carry on, gun owners: Second Amendment rulings.
- Failing multiplication: new stimulus research.
- Quotes.
- Tax prep panic: IRS over-regulation.
- Don't mint the coin.
- Filibuster fights on: lawsuit tossed.
- Life for pot? Mandatory minimums.
- A Chicago jury awarded Markee Cooper Sr. $565,000 after cops broke into his home searching for drugs.
- A patient walked away without permission from the Graylands Mental Hospital in Australia.
- Alberta Education Minister Jeff Johnson banned the use of lanyards in the province's public schools.
- Forget the fourth: domestic surveillance.
- Officials at the Life Learning Academy in San Francisco, California, have suspended senior Courtni Webb and are threatening to expel her.
- Poland's constitutional court has upheld I a law mandating that livestock be stunned before being slaughtered.
- Police in Swaziland have threatened to arrest women caught wearing miniskirts or tops that expose their stomachs.
- Rashad Lewis was a bit surprised to get a ticket for running a red light.
- Russian prosecutors have launched an "extremism" investigation of the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg.
- The Chechen government closed a newspaper just hours after its editor provoked laughter from other journalists during 0a press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- The village board of Great Neck, New York, has prohibited people from hanging laundry to dry in their front yards.
- Balancing Act.
- Loose loans: subsidized home ownership.
- A punter on politics.
- Free spirits: Sunday liquor sales.
- Farm subsidies must die: how agriculture subsidies waste money, distort the economy, and steal from the poor to give to the rich.
- Failing college: why are we screwing up the world's best higher education system?
- Where higher education went wrong: a forum on the failures and future of the American university.
- Code is speech: hackers attempt to write themselves into the constitution.
- How debt ruins systems: Black Swan author Nassim Nicholas Taleb on fragility, centralization, and capitalism.
- College of the future: singularity university reimagines education.
- The Great Gatsby's creative destruction: whether the new movie succeeds, Fitzgerald's masterpiece still speaks to America.
- Who put the Coca in Cola?
- Life is not fair.
- Love in the future.
- Manufacturing terrorists: how FBI sting operations make jihadists out of hapless malcontents.
- Don't believe your eyes.
- Is anarchism socialist or capitalist?: A new defense of libertarian anarchism makes the case that the philosophy belongs on the left.
- Footbridge city.
- A history lesson from Clarence Thomas: correcting a liberal smear about the conservative supreme court justice.
- The iPhone crime wave: what Gotham's gobbled Apples reveal about the nation's falling crime rates.
- Cops vs. Burgers.