Vol. 45 No. 3, July 2013
Index
- Obama's last gasp at a legacy: as his potency dwindles, the president should ease up on pot prohibition.
- Reaction.
- The government yoke.
- When policing becomes harassment: why the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program is unconstitutional.
- Nation of immigrants: can America rediscover its open-borders roots?
- 20 years ago in reason.
- Beverage ban blocked: NYC nannying.
- Wizard of subsidies: taxpayer-financed trip to Oz.
- Black market booms? Shadow economy and spending.
- Married in Uruguay: Latin American SSM.
- Quotes.
- What Brown can't do: unauthorized drug shipments.
- Iraq bills still due: costs of war rising.
- Make banks pay for their own mistakes.
- No lunch for you! Food truck rules.
- Peaceful lockout: crime in gated communities.
- You will be armed: Georgia gun mandate.
- A village council in Bihar, India, has banned women from using cellphones.
- Fuzzy probable cause: police dogs and searches.
- Houston police ticketed James Kelly for 'disturbing the contents of a garbage can.'.
- In Massachusetts, Ipswich Middle School Principal David Fabrizio says he will end the school's annual Honors Night.
- Kitchen staff at England's Castle View School have been ordered to stop cutting flapjacks (what Americans call granola bars) into triangles.
- Officials at Wamsutta Middle School in Massachusetts suspended Morgan LaPlaume for one day after they caught her with a butter knife.
- Port St. Lucie, Florida, police have charged Daneta McPherson with harassing a 5-year-old special-needs student.
- Three years ago, an Arkansas court found police officer Coleman Brackney guilty of negligent homicide in the shooting death of James Ahern.
- Two Sarasota County, Florida, sheriff's deputies seemed miffed when Charles Ross jumped over a picnic table they were sitting on.
- Broken bonds: underfunded pensions.
- Gun control--for the children.
- An artist on getting ripped off.
- Free to feed: helping the homeless.
- Can the budget ever be cut? The sad story of three new federal budget proposals.
- Obamanomics 2.0: meet the team running economic policy in the president's second term.
- Kinder, gentler prohibition: will drug courts undermine marijuana legalization?
- Overselling psychiatry: how arbitrary description of mental illness messes up public policy.
- Sex in the Arab world: author and activist Shereen El Feki on whether the Arab Spring can produce a Summer of Love.
- Should we patent human genes? The Supreme Court ponders the intersection of biology and intellectual property.
- When Jackie Robinson fought back: a new movie elevates the trailblazing ballplayer's nonviolence over his furious competitive spirit.
- Infinite lives.
- Incarceration comics.
- A net skeptic's conservative manifesto: anti-tech grump Evgeny Morozov overstates his case.
- Hard to swallow.
- The origins of weird America.
- D.C.'s temperance tour.
- The power of people: how markets and human ingenuity can save the planet.
- Understanding scientology: a look inside the controversial church.
- The shame of public shaming: justice suffers when judges mete out viral punishments.
- The BitcoinATM.