Weekly Archive 2012 September 15-21
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How Obama Came to Be the Biggest Defender of Indefinite Detention
And why those of us who oppose such power have been left with few channels for appeal.
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Bloomberg’s Big Beverage Ban
The mayor’s soda scheme won’t make anyone thinner, but it sets a paternalistic precedent.
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Unhappy Californians Still Embrace the Failed Status Quo
High taxes and a union-dominated discourse won’t fix the Golden State
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A movie that makes teenage isolation and high-school torment seem like fresh subjects again
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Friday Funnies
Libya
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Welcome to the Golden Age of Fact-Checking
What the Jonah Lehrer debacle reveals about the state of journalism today
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Romney Was Wrong, but So Are His Critics
There are plenty of voters who believe they can get something for nothing.
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Mitt Romney's Dependency Delusions
Easing the tax burden on those who have the least was not always anathema to conservatives.
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David Simon on Treme, New Orleans, the Drug War, Obama, The Wire - And Disappointing Libertarians
"More people are calling bullshit."
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A Defense of Romney's "47 Percent" Comment
Sooner or later, says Judge Napolitano, the government will run out of other people's money. Romney understands that.
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Protecting Property Rights from the Army Corps of Engineers
The Supreme Court prepares to hear a major Takings Clause case.
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Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, Obama's Failed Narrative, Four More Years of War!: November Reason Preview!
Matt Welch and Kennedy discuss what's in the new issue of Reason.
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Debt Ceiling Fight Club
Bring on the next round of ugly budget battles.
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Gary Johnson Is the Solution to Our Two-Party Problems
Without big government, our possibilities are limitless.
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Four Things Government Could Do to Ease Poverty
Anti-poverty spending has soared while poverty rates have held steady. It's time to try something new.
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The Man Versus the Therapeutic State
Thomas Szasz's courageous defense of freedom and responsibility
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Reason's Katherine Mangu-Ward Examines Fannie Mae and Bank of America's Contract
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"No one has the right to a world in which he is never despised."
Why attacking free speech is an even greater blasphemy than a slur on the divine
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Drums, Puppets, & Dissing Libertarians: What We Saw at the Occupy Anniversary Protest in NYC
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The Singularity as Farce
Two novelists produce a cask-strength science-fiction comedy.
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The Unholy Spirit of Presidential Activism
So set your DVR for one of the oddest cinematic displays of power-worship in the history of American film.
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Marxism, Austrian Economics, and Exploitation
Karl Marx had no monopoly on theorizing about exploitation.
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‘We Won in Our Effort to Preserve the Constitution’
Legal scholar Randy Barnett on why the Supreme Court ObamaCare decision isn’t as bad as you think
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These Are the Questions Moderators Should Ask Obama and Romney at the First Presidential Debate
The debate is supposed to focus on domestic policy, and so do these questions.
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It's Time to Legalize Hemp! Q&A with CEO of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps
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American Conservatives Have Their Own Version of Shariah Law
A lot of wrongheaded people with an irrational fetish for holy symbols think their hurt feelings justify censorship.
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Ready to Cut Military Spending
Polls show that Americans want smaller government everywhere and fewer obligations abroad.
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Why Obama Is the Weakest President Since Ronald Reagan
The embassy attacks won't trump all the other things Obama has done.
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Deeper in the Afghan Quagmire
The U.S. government has occupied Afghanistan for 11 years, through two administrations, Republican and Democrat.
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All The President's Wars: How Foreign Policy Became One Man's Prerogative
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Asia's Underground Railroad
Helping refugees escape totalitarian North Korea.
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The Deep Logic of the Chicago Teachers Strike or, The Truth Behind Teachers Unions
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California's GMO Labeling Law Isn't the Answer
How Prop 37 restricts speech and needlessly meddles in consumer choice.