Vol. 46 No. 3, July - July 2014
Index
- Sovereignty is such a lonely word: two decades of promiscuous intervention softened the ground for Putin's expansionism.
- Five gun rights cases to watch.
- Reaction.
- Should vaccines be mandatory?
- 15 years ago in reason.
- Twerking for Putin? Failed trade restrictions.
- Weed & guns: medical pot vs. Second Amendment.
- Cop corruption bills: lawsuit spending.
- Double trouble: federal agency overlap.
- Pre-K punishment: zero tolerance, writ small.
- Quotes.
- Bitcoin for pot: encrypted weed trusts.
- Crowd intelligence: outsmarting the CIA.
- Why morphine matters.
- Work less, make more: Obamacare incentives.
- A pro-life student group at Connecticut's Branford High School says their principal won't let them use model fetuses in a display.
- An internal Department of Justice report found that federal prosecutors and other department employees committed more than 650 violations of law, department rules, or professional standards between 2002 and 2013.
- Educational equality: online learning.
- For 10 years the Durham, North Carolina, police department has been paying criminal informants for their testimony without revealing those payments to defense attorneys or, apparently, to prosecutors.
- Officials at Salem High School in Plymouth, Michigan, have agreed to take down bleachers and a scoreboard paid for and built by parents for the school's baseball team.
- Officials with the Olathe, Kansas, school system have apologized after inviting only black students on a field trip that included visits to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and an exhibit on the civil rights movement at a local museum.
- The Floresville Independent School District in Texas has disciplined a school bus driver caught on video calling an elementary school student a 'crybaby' and trying to get other students on the bus to mock the girl.
- The Liverpool City Council in England is considering a measure that would require restaurants to serve fish and chips on plates to those eating outdoors.
- Inchon, Noah, and faith-based filmmaking.
- L.A. dumps haulers: trash cronyism.
- Potato passages: free trade victory.
- Bringing the First Amendment into the 21st century.
- Pot, poker, and prohibitionism: do Republicans want to be the party of unprincipled killjoys?
- Free the horse masseuses! Occupational licensing must go.
- Welcome to the naked future: celebrating the death of privacy.
- California's unlikely pot crackdown: scenes from the federal clampdown on medical marijuana in the Golden State after Proposition 19.
- Washington's legal marijuana mess: can pot regulators beat the law of supply and demand?
- Marijuana money in the mattress: banks remain leery of deposits from cannabusinesses.
- 'You Can Never Drive': Washington's new standard for drugged driving puts patients in peril.
- How not to legalize a drug: yanking alcohol back out of the black market left America with a wicked Prohibition hangover.
- Eggheads of the world, unite! A frontline report on the ongoing battle to unionize college professors.
- Government vs. the Juggalos: why are we criminalizing music fandom?
- The Sultan of Sewers: William Burroughs' anti-authoritarian vision.
- Hemp for America!(Briefly Noted) (Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution ) (Brief article) (Book review)
- The gangster and the government.
- Commie electronica.
- Nader goes around the bend: is the anti-corporate crusader so left he's almost right?
- Alex Chilton's small stardom.
- Collecting discord.
- The financial crisis of 1837: trying to understand one of America's great economic downturns.
- Why aren't there more unisex bathrooms? Blame building codes for long lines, unhappy transgender people, grumpy business owners, and more.
- The DIY drug prize: the federal government should offer prize money for the creation of a safer, better high.
- Marijuana in vending machines is the American way.