April 2008

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Editor's Notes

• From the Top: Ron Paul's Mistake

  Matt Welch

  Why a message of freedom works better than whipping up white resentment

Cartoons

• In Search of the Perfect Human

  Peter Bagge

  On the campaign trail in New Hampshire

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Citizen Lockdown

  Jesse Walker

  The plot against Americans

• Cigar Bar

  Kerry Howley

  Safe from Cuban terrorism

• Too Good to Be Legal

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Fake news from the music industry

• Pirate Island

  Jacob Sullum

  Online gambling dispute

• Forfeiture Folly

  Radley Balko

  Cover Your Assets

• Mint Condition

  Brian Doherty

  Liberty Dollar raid

• Psychotic Reaction

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Putin puts away dissidents

• Medical Speech

  Ronald Bailey

  Censoring drug information

• Silencing the Dead

  Radley Balko

  Judicial double standards

• Bright Idea

  David Weigel

  Lobbyists win light ban

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Monkeys and Money

  Nick Gillespie

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

  April 1978

Data

• Data: Handout Bonanza

  Radley Balko

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Passing Bad Laws

  Jeff Flake

  A short guided tour—by a congressman—of the worst bills in Congress

Columns

• Sidebar: Dissent in the Russian Press

  Cathy Young

• The New Age of Reason

  Ronald Bailey

  Is the Fourth Great Awakening finally coming to a close?

• I'm With Stupid

  Greg Beato

  The perennially embattled free speech zone over our chests

• Evolution of a rEVOLution

  David Weigel

  What next for the Ron Paul revolution?

• Rant: Take Them Back to Dear Old Blighty

  Michael C. Moynihan

  The ugliest byproduct of the sagging dollar

Features

• Sidebar: Fun Facts About Putin's Russia

  Cathy Young

• After Putin

  Cathy Young

  As Vladimir Putin prepares to step down and orchestrate his succession, Russia continues to roll back freedom--but not all the way back.

Interviews

• Writer on the Storm

  Bill Kauffman

  Former New Left leader Carl Oglesby on the '60s, his old friend Hillary Clinton, and the dream of a left-libertarian alliance

Culture & Reviews

• Shoot Down Over Cuba

  Michael C. Moynihan

  A bold documentary takes Castro to task for senseless murders.

• Huzza for Commerce!

  Kerry Howley

  The emancipatory power of the American hotel

Book Reviews

• No Bad Drugs

  Jacob Sullum

  The arbitrary distinctions at the root of prohibition

• The 'White Slavery' Panic

  Joanne McNeil

  Anti-prostitution activists have been equating sex work with slavery for over a century.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Playing Tag

  Katherine Mangu-Ward