Weekly Archive 2012 September 22-28
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Wake the F*ck Up! (A Rebuttal)
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Won't Back Down
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis team up in Hollywood's latest implausible school reform flick
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Steve Horwitz on Austrian Economics, Family, and Bleeding Heart Libertarians
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California’s Failed Policies Are Driving Away Businesses and Residents
The Golden State needs to mend its ways before it’s too late.
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Looper
Bruce Willis stars in a vivid time-travel thriller.
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Friday Funnies
The common touch
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The GOP Needs More Libertarianism, Not Less
New York Times columnist David Brooks is wrong to worry about the influence of “economic conservatives.”
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The Age of the Infographic
Charts, graphs, and timelines in the post-newspaper world
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring at 50 Years
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The Streetcar Swindle
It’s time to rethink America’s retrograde love affair with trolley technology.
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The GOP's Environmental Disaster
The forgotten legacy of Russell Train.
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The Arab Spring Becomes a Western Winter
Is the Arab Middle East ready for democracy? We know how the past two American presidents have answered this.
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Last Resort: Sailing into America’s Post-Post-9/11 World
New series explores our current cultural dichotomy of defiance and authoritarianism.
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Denial of Medical Choice: Even Worse Than Activists Think
Abortion advocates fear government bureaucrats could use burdensome rules to reduce access to medical care. That's happening already.
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Strangulation by Union
Rules that “protect” government workers from arbitrary dismissal and require everyone be treated equally are bad for taxpayers and even unions.
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Silent Spring's 50-Year History of Selective Data
Rachel Carson, more than any other person, created the politicized science that afflicts today's public policy debates.
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Immigrants DREAM on: Neither Obama nor Romney will help you
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Cyberbullying Law Threatens Student Speech in North Carolina
You can't say that about school officials on the Internet!
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The Marijuana Rebellion
State ballot initiatives aimed at legalizing pot pose a new challenge to prohibition.
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The NFL's Bureaucratic Breakdown
Bad call in Green Bay/Seattle game was the result of an anti-competitive cartel that is getting worse.
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Matt Welch and "The Mirror" on Melissa Harris-Perry
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Take-Home Tests
Home HIV diagnosis
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Inclement President
Commutation No. 2?
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Phone Tap Terror
DOJ security letters
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Pot Federalism
Weed defense grows
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Bite the Bullet
High-speed rail
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Money Talks
Prediction markets work
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Two Guys and a License
Missouri competition win
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Budget Battle Book
States’ fiscal gimmicks
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Big Whoop
Pertussis epidemic spreads
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Borderline Rights
Shooting a rock-thrower
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Striking Injustice
California sentencing reform
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School Rules
Court nixes ed regs
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No to Nukes
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Contributors
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Rand to the Rescue
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Quotes
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The Euro Crisis and Us
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Brickbats
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30 years ago in reason
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Why Politics Are Bad For Us
For starters, they make us dumber.
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Losing the War in Afghanistan
War is hell, and so is bureaucracy.
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Remy: Imagine (There's No YouTube)
Remy imagines a world where politicians cave to angry mobs and dictate what we can see on YouTube.
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Matt Welch Addresses Campaign Sound Bites on MSNBC Live
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Markets vs. Morals?
The mistaken worry that money and morality are at odds
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Obama's Fact-Challenged Tax Claim
Where are the “fact-checkers” when you need them?
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Boob Over Bottle: Mike Bloomberg's Latest Nanny State Dictate
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Is the Age of the Publicly Funded Sports Arena Drawing to a Close?
The past few decades have seen an increase in public underwriting of sports arenas, but attitudes may be shifting.
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The End of International Environmentalism
Green ideology crashes and burns at the Rio +20 Earth Summit.
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Chicago Teachers' Strike Illustrates the Need for Choice
Collective bargaining agreements are often an impediment to innovation, efficiencies, and the elevation of standards.
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Mitt Romney Is Out of Sync With the Small Government Movement
He's also out of touch with everyday Americans.
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Immigrants Are Not Miracle Workers Who Can Fix Any Broken Economy
Lessons from Detroit, Baltimore, and other struggling cities
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USDA's School Lunch Reforms Earn an "F" from Students
First Lady Michelle Obama and a host of "experts" were wrong about the USDA's new school lunch rules. Is there another way?