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The Loughner Panic
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April 2011
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Editor's Note
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Against ‘Incitement’
Political speech doesn’t kill people, people kill people
Contributors
Letters
Citings (expand) (collapse)
Columns
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Carbon Rationing by Other Means
After Congress fails to regulate greenhouse gases, the president hands the job to the EPA.
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Failing Upward in Criminal Justice
The prosecutor who wrongly put a paraplegic in prison wants to be a judge.
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Malls of a Certain Age
The shopping mall: a look back
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Is Julian Assange a Journalist?
For First Amendment purposes, it doesn’t matter.
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The State Pension Time Bomb
Poor accounting rules and flagrant irresponsibility have sped up the states’ day of reckoning.
Features
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The Lobster Underground
Food vendors vs. the state
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Unpacking Jared Lee Loughner
If you’re the Southern Poverty Law Center, the media will treat your guesses like gold.
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Looking for Loughners
Would laxer commitment rules make us safer?
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From Reefer Madness to the Hays Code
Pundits go mad looking for Tucson massacre scapegoats.
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The Politicization of Everything
Why Americans increasingly hate Democrats and Republicans
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Gun Control Couldn’t Have Stopped It
The Tucson massacre should not lead to new restrictions on firearms.
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The Deadliest Rhetoric
Critics who link anti-government speech to violence ignore the violence committed by a government at “war.”
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Just Your Typical Would-Be Assassin
Jared Loughner fits the profile of a killer— but not in the way you might think.
Culture & Reviews
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Sorry, Charley
Was John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley a fraud?
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Nudgers vs. Nannies
The civil war between British busybodies
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The $6 Billion Scam
Jerry Brown’s plan to kill community “redevelopment” is fiscally smart, morally right, and probably doomed.
Briefly Noted
Artifact
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Kinder Egg Contraband
Protecting Americans from foreign bonbons.