Recently added articles from Reason:
Why Long Beach isn't Detroit: how Southern California survived the collapse of aircraft manufacturing without a bailout.(From the Top)
Jul 01, 2009; ... IT COMES UP IN every argument about Washington bailing out Detroit: Don't you heartless market fundamentalists realize what would happen to the Rust Belt if we subjected the Big Three to "uncontrolled bankruptcy"? "Had General Motors and Chrysler been allowed to go into bankruptcy last ...
Stimulating ourselves to death.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Veronique de Rugy's "Stimulating Ourselves to Death" (April) successfully attacks the conventional explanation of the Depression itself and its cure. When I first learned economics, in the early 1930s at the University of Chicago, I learned a different ...
The Liberaltarian Jackalope.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2009; ... As a subscriber to reason and a liberaltarian, I was surprised at Matt Welch's distaste for President Barack Obama in "The Liberaltarian Jackalope" (April). I don't know about you, but I'm still celebrating! I cheered when Obama ordered an end to Guantanamo, a pull out from Iraq, an end to ...
Corrections.(Letters)(Correction notice)
Jul 01, 2009 ... CORRECTIONS: In "The Politics of Superheroes" ...
Drug control begets gun control: the violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms.(Columns)
Jul 01, 2009; ... DURING HIS April visit to Mexico, President Barack Obama suggested that Americans are partly to blame for the appalling violence associated with the illegal drug trade there. "The demand for these drugs in the United States is what's helping keep these cartels in business," he said. "This ...
Roquefort revolution: trade policy folly.(Citings)(tariff on Roquefort cheese)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; ... RIGHT BEFORE he left the White House, George W. Bush dealt a harsh blow to lovers of Roquefort, the finest of the stinky French blue cheeses. As part of an ongoing trade spat over the European Union's refusal to import U.S. beef, the Bush administration imposed a 300 percent tariff on the ...
DEA tax collectors: medical marijuana raids.(Citings)(Drug Enforcement Administration)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; ... DURING HIS presidential campaign, Barack Obama repeatedly promised to call off federal raids on medical marijuana providers in states that allow therapeutic use of the drug. Since his election, Obama administration officials have repeatedly promised to keep his promise. Yet as of this ...
30 years ago in reason.(Citings)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "So delicious was the taste of [Jim] Jones's born-again Marxism to the upper crust that the congressional 'fact-finding' mission, commanded by the late Rep. Leo Ryan, was convinced that their tour revealed universal happiness. After checking every nook ...
Quotes.
Jul 01, 2009 ... "It's ironical to me that we're living in a time ... where we actually now can't do anything until we talk to our loan officer in Beijing. We have a Communist banker. That's where deregulation got us. It's like Ayn Rand got loaded and woke up next to Keynes." --West Wing actor ...
Transparency failure: national security or secure lobbying?(Citings)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; ... ON HIS first day as president, Barack Obama said, "For a long time now, there's been too much secrecy in this city." He promised that "information will not be withheld just because I say so." But while Obama has released some documents related to the war on terror, he also has denied ...
Bogus bodega busts: corrupt Philadelphia cops.(Citings)
Jul 01, 2009; ... BODEGAS ARE convenience stores, usually owned by immigrants, that sell groceries, calling cards, and other sundries, and also sometimes cash paychecks or provide wire services for immigrants to send home remittances. In March the Philadelphia Daily News reported that a rogue narcotics ...
The graduates: charter school success.(Citings)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; ... IN A MARCH speech on education policy, President Barack Obama championed charter schools, praising their innovations and urging states to lift caps on their growth. A new RAND Corporation study, Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration, and ...
Militia member memo: paranoia in Missouri.(Citings)(Missouri Information Analysis Center's "modern militia movement" report)
Jul 01, 2009; ... UNTIL RECENTLY, the Missouri Information Analysis Center, a state agency created by the Department of Homeland Security, distributed a report to state troopers that aimed to aid them in understanding the "modern militia movement." It also gave them advice on how to detect whether someone ...
The unrepentant D.A.: prosecutorial error in Santa Clara.(Citings)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; ... IN 2007 THE San Jose Mercury News revealed that Deputy District Attorney Jaime Stringfield of Santa Clara County, California, had introduced a fake DNA report into evidence in a sex abuse case. In February, responding to the revelation that the district attorney's office had failed to turn ...
Freeing Harvard.(trends in the academe according to Harvey Silverglate)(List)
Jul 01, 2009 ... Harvey Silverglate, civil liberties lawyer and co-founder of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, is running for a seat on Harvard's Board of Overseers. reason asked him to pinpoint the three worst trends in modern American academia. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Frisco freak-out: public art, public nuisance?(Citings)(impromptu events in public spaces in San Francisco)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; ... ON A RAINY Valentine's Day this year, thousands of unorganized pillow fighters gathered by word of mouth and Web in San Francisco. They left behind a mess of wet gooey feathers that city officials and local businesses claim cost nearly $30,000 to clean up. A representative of the ...
Janitor Jesus Barajas saved for 30 years to build his dream house on a piece of property he owns in Seattle.(Brickbats)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Janitor Jesus Barajas saved for 30 years to build his dream house on a piece of property he owns in Seattle. But he's going to have to downsize his plans, thanks to a new city ordinance that requires ...
The British government has unveiled plans to track every person who leaves the United Kingdom, even for just one day.(Brickbats)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; ... The British government has unveiled plans to track every person who leaves the United Kingdom, even for just one day. Travelers ...
Washington state banned the sale of dishwashing detergents containing more than 0.5 percent phosphates; the prohibition will go statewide next year, but it initially took effect in Spokane County.(Brickbats)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; ... Washington state banned the sale of dishwashing detergents containing more than 0.5 percent phosphates; the prohibition will go statewide next year, but it initially took effect in Spokane County. Many ...
In Seminole County, Florida, Judge Ralph Erikkson tossed a man in jail because he did not like the fellow's lawyer.(Brickbats)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2009; ... In Seminole County, Florida, Judge Ralph Erikkson tossed a man in jail because he did not like the fellow's lawyer. Attorney Kendall Horween won a continuance ...