Vol. 49 No. 4, August - August 2017
Index
- Giant ziplock baggies full of lambs are going to change everything.
- Go ahead put salt on your food: ignore the feds' bad advice on diet and nutrition.
- Use a cellphone, void the fourth amendment?
- Health care and the politics of disruption.
- The myth of technological unemoloyment.
- Can't afford a vacation? Blame the state!(ECONOMICS)
- Want to treat your kid like a felon on parole? There's an app for that.
- What America taught a murderous drug warrior: Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte follows prohibitionist logic to its lethal conclusion.
- Politicians will disappoint you.
- Deportations up under Trump: a round-up of immigrant round-ups.
- Russia's global anti-libertarian crusade: how Vladimir Putin's desire for domination and acceptance is scrambling American politics.
- Americans should impeach presidents more often. We don't do it nearly enough.
- DNA evidence frees the innocentl: but when we're not careful, this powerful technology can help imprison the wrongly accused.
- A Rogues' gallery of bad forensics labs.
- Reefer madness at the New York Times: America's paper of record, which officially turned against marijuana prohibition in 2014, spent most of the previous century credulously promoting it.
- A Timeline of Marijuana in The New York Times.
- Cory Doctorow's: 'fully automated luxury communist civilization': the author of Little Brother and Walkaway on dystopia, the end of scarcity, and whats going to get him arrested.
- How capitalism saved the bees: a decade after colony collapse disorder began, pollination entrepreneurs have staved off beepocalypse.
- Selling the Silk Road Soap Opera: a new book on dark net entrepreneur Ross Ulbricht misses the point.
- The surprisingly long history of private space exploration: America returns to its roots, thanks to philanthropists who are literally shooting for the stars.
- Jane Jacobs, in her own words: the death and life of a great American urbanist.
- The case for gender anarchy: want to end trans discrimination? Stop forcing people to label themselves.
- Game: Secret Hitler.
- TV: American Gods.
- Twitter: @CrimeADay.
- Book: A Really Good Day.
- Documentary: Generation Iron 2.
- TV: Sense8.
- TV: The Handmaid's Tale.
- From the archives.
- Neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt on alcohol, LSD, and getting sacked for his findings.
- Brickbats.