April 2010

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Editor's Note

• Obama and the L-Word

  Matt Welch

  The president’s habit of telling untruths

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Quotes

• Love Canal, Three Decades Later

  Ronald Bailey

• Banning home nudity

  Radley Balko

  The Naked Coffee Guy

• Biotech patents

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Gene I.P.

• LED stoplight hazard

  Radley Balko

  Green Lights

• I like to watch

  Peter Suderman

  Video UnDemand

• In-flight phone ban

  Jacob Sullum

  HANG UP Act

• Hurricanes and public option

  Peter Suderman

  Under the Weather

• Strawberry meth scare

  Jacob Sullum

  Pink Peril

• Outlawing legal tender

  Brian Doherty

  Free Money

• Regulation in Virginia

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Cab Call Away

• Who’s protecting telecom privacy?

  Brian Doherty

  Unwarranted Search

• Buying body parts

  Ronald Bailey

  Marrow Markets

Soundbites

• The Bailout Economy

  Peter Suderman

Years Ago

• 30 years ago in reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Lists

• The TSA vs. Homeland Security

Columns

• Too Much Fun

  Greg Beato

  Caffeinated alcoholic drinks draw the feds’ wrath for candor in advertising.

• Who’s Your Daddy? Or Your Other Daddy? Or Your Mommy?

  Ronald Bailey

  Why reproductive contracts should trump genetic ties

• The Death of Fiscal Federalism

  Veronique de Rugy

  It’s been a long time since economic policy was forged in the states.

• Promises Worth Breaking

  Jacob Sullum

  Obama’s health insurance tax didn’t go far enough.

• The D.C. Snow Job

  Radley Balko

  Social networks, video sharing, and blogs expose police lying.

Features

• Mass. Hysteria

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Scenes from the revolutionary takeover of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat

• Five Lies About the American Economy

  Tim Cavanaugh

  The Obama team’s favorite slices of fiscal baloney

• The Myth of the Recovery

  Anthony Randazzo

  The White House claims the economy is on the mend. That’s a fantasy.

Interviews

• ‘You Cut Spending’

  Nick Gillespie & Matt Welch

  Former New Mexico governor and possible presidential candidate Gary Johnson talks about Obamanomics, ending the drug war, and climbing the highest mountains.

Culture & Reviews

• Little Grrrls Lost

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Angry, anti-capitalist punk girl bands power the U.S. economy.

• Don’t Fear the E-Reader

  Peter Suderman

  Books are evolving, not dying.

• Bailing Out Big Brother

  Matt Welch

  Media criticism goes from rebelling against media oligarchs to handing them a lifeline.

• Louis Brandeis’ Partial Justice

  Damon W. Root

  How the famous jurist shaped—and misshaped—American law

• Pro-Choice or Pro-Pot?

  Jacob Sullum

  Antiprohibitionists shouldn’t replace one set of pharmacological prejudices with another.

• Hippie Heroes

  Peter Suderman

• Pod People Perils

  Jacob Sullum

• Punking America

  Nick Gillespie

• Opening Up the Big House

  Brian Doherty

• A History of Violence

  Radley Balko

Artifact

• From Genesis to Consternation

  Brian Doherty

  Robert Crumb's Bible stories