Vol. 44 No. 2, June 2012
Index
- Losing arguments: are free market ideas beating a retreat?
- Corrections.
- Fixing America's freeways.
- Reaction.
- In defense of 'outside groups': wealthy super PAC donors make politics more competitive.
- 25 years ago in reason.
- Plan B and a coke: vending machine pills.
- Stimulus fail: multiplying or subtracting?
- Gun stats: measuring armed self-defense.
- Pot pat-downs: manufacturing misdemeanors.
- Quotes.
- Taser cams: weapons transparency.
- Bully for you? Free speech on campus.
- Citizens United redux: Montana campaign finance.
- Politics and pop.
- Vaccine refuseniks: immune to evidence.
- A New York City Sanitation Department worker gave Raymond Johnson a $100 citation for putting his trash out 33 minutes early.
- Health I.T. failure: socialized medical records.
- Krystal Myers was disturbed by the her Tennessee public school's mixing of church and state, which included teacher-written Bible verses on blackboards and prayers at athletic events and school board meetings.
- Marilyn Louie's newsstand has stood in the same spot in New York City's Chinatown for 35 years.
- More than 3,000 people turned out for the second Tops of the Hops Beer Festival in Biloxi, Mississippi.
- No fewer than seven patrol cars answered when someone called 911 in Los Angeles to report that a passenger was pointing a rifle out of a moving minivan.
- Officials at California's Lupine Hills Elementary School put a sexual battery claim on the permanent record of a 6-year-old boy who accidentally touched another boy on the groin or leg during a game of tag.
- Patricia White says the District of Columbia government has fined her eight times, with a penalty totaling $2,000, for throwing away her cat litter.
- Transportation Security Administration agents at Los Angeles International Airport detained one woman.
- Reproductive cycle, political cycle.
- Right to record: more war on cameras.
- Shirt waste: labor regs run wild.
- Tuition trouble: climbing college costs.
- Lessons of the Afghan War.
- More cash, less HIV? African experiments.
- Tear down this paywall: court records are expensive and inaccessible. It's time for information liberation.
- America's small-business fetish: when it comes to job creation, size doesn't matter.
- Taco USA: how Mexican food became more American than apple pie.
- 'The financial crisis was the result of government housing policy': the American Enterprise Institute's Peter Wallison on how government, not greed, was the essential ingredient in the 2008 meltdown.
- Why we're losing: how free market ideas suffer from being counterintuitive.
- Separating church and state money: if religious institutions want to be left alone, they should stop begging for alms from the government.
- Two Americas, growing apart: Charles Murray offers a better way to think and talk about class.
- Jung lust.
- No jail, no rehab.
- Semi-secret societies.
- The technocratic mind: a hagiography of the Obama administration's most powerful wonks reveals more than it intends.
- The human right to blaspheme.
- How Pat Buchanan conquered America: reliving the 1990s in the 2012 GOP race.
- Skyscrapers go Lego.
- Turing turns 100: the father of computer science, honored too late.
- Is the GOP an echo or a choice? Republicans won't let principle stop them from losing.
- King-sized no more.