Vol. 45 No. 6, November 2013
Index
- The corruptions of being the world's policeman: Obama's Syria blunder demonstrates the folly of playing international sheriff.
- Reaction.
- When policing becomes harassment.
- Eric Holder's prison break: the attorney general's belated but welcome criticism of mass incarceration and mandatory minimums.
- No Utopia for Detroit: until the Motor City fixes its services, liberal and libertarian renewal ideas will remain fantasy.
- 40 years ago in reason.
- Border abortions; black markets.
- Federal cyber panic: fake scare, blown budget.
- Fossil fuels forever: no peak within sight.
- Gun grabs: blue-state seizures.
- Lyme time: anti-vaccination victory.
- Quotes.
- ObamaCare for Thee: government workers want out.
- Password, please: online surveillance.
- Scotus v. Freedom.
- Spy in your pocket: cellphone tracking.
- A council warden in Hornchurch, England, slapped Tracey Hayes with a 50 [pounds sterling] fine for littering after he caught her brushing her dog in a local park.
- In April, Tom Hoffman got a $66,000 water bill from the city of Dallas, Texas.
- Maine's Department of Corrections is investigating how video of an officer pepper-spraying an inmate bound in a restraint chair was released to the media.
- Mansfield, Louisiana, police officer Tamara Jackson Brown has been charged with domestic violence, aggravated battery, and unauthorized entry after beating her husband.
- Officials in Gothenburg, Sweden, have ordered a nightclub to reduce the volume of the music played there.
- Pakistan's Electronic Media Regulatory Authority has banned a commercial for Josh condoms, calling it indecent.
- Pay the TSA away: price of dignity.
- The Denver government has been kicking exercise groups out of parks and other public spaces.
- The mayor of Lipari, Italy, has banned people from wearing swimsuits in the center of town.
- The St. Louis police department fired officer Rory Bruce after he was caught on video punching a handcuffed suspect.
- Arbiters of taste: menthol cigarette ban.
- Health care rights and responsibilities.
- Hidden debt crisis: off books, off balance.
- Canadian hate speech: victory for free expression.
- Change stupid immigration laws.
- The kids aren't all right: younger Americans are being suffocated by spending, subsidies, and debt.
- Pot goes legit: what the end of prohibition looks like in Colorado.
- How to break an American City: the municipal bankruptcy mess is heading to a local government near you.
- The scientific case for decriminalization: neuroscientist Carl Hart on the fundamental ignorance that shapes our national conversation about drug policy.
- Five phony public health scares: activist misinformation harms Americans.
- The death of the age of stuff.
- Hardhats for peace, students for war: the surprising shape of public opinion in the Vietnam era.
- Orange is the new breaking bad.
- Harrowing healing.
- A cacophonous world.
- The Myth of the better war: faulty history lures Americans into foolish interventions.
- Fruitvate station's everyday horror.
- Meet the Vinyl Community: welcome to a weird, wonderful world where people watch each other play old records on YouTube.
- Drinking for charity: the rise of the philanthropub.
- Cops give Seattle stoners special Doritos.