April 2007

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Truly Maverick Thinking

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Bums

  Peter Bagge

  Why there are no "happy hobos"

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Loan Arrangers

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Microcredit online

• Testing Your Strength

  Ronald Bailey

  Gene doping in 2008

• You Call That A Secret?

  Jacob Sullum

  Plugging leaks with subpoenas

• SarbOox Showdown

  Brian Doherty

  Taking Sarbanes-Oxley to court

• Official Extortion

  Radley Balko

  Eminent domain abuse

• Bad Blow

  Ronald Bailey

  Hurricanes and global warming

• Google Envy

  Brian Doherty

  Subsidized search engines

• Hard Cell

  David Weigel

  The FCC's secret cell phone map

• Taxi Reform

  Kerry Howley

  Free to drive

• Learning Infractions

  Radley Balko

  Teaching kids to snitch

Soundbites

• Soundbite

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  The Young American Empire

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

  April 1977

Data

• Data: America's Biggest Cash Crop

  Jacob Sullum

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Rant: America's No. 1 Endangered Species

  Nick Gillespie

  Is the middle class losing its "place at the table"?

• The Impact of Academic Bias

  Cathy Young

  Professors do lean to the left-but are students listening?

• Reformers vs. the Old Guard

  David Weigel

  Will fiscal conservatives retake the GOP? Four key members to watch in Congress.

Features

• How Traffic Jams Are Made In City Hall

  Ted Balaker & Sam Staley

  The bad logic and failed policies of transportation planners

• "It's Our Job to Stop That Dream"

  Malia Politzer

  The endless, futile work of the Border Patrol

• Be Afraid of President McCain

  Matt Welch

  The frightening mind of an authoritarian maverick

Culture & Reviews

• The Secret of The Secret

  Greg Beato

  A cult self-help DVD fleeces the credulous.

• Designing Dissent

  Nick Gillespie

  Protest posters and the blind spots of the modern left

• Florida's Forgotten Rebels

  Amy Sturgis

  Rediscovering the most successful slave revolt in American history

Book Reviews

• The West Will Rise Again

  David Weigel

  Is the South's hold over American politics on the wane?

Artifacts

• Artifact: Boston Bomb Scare

  David Weigel