August/September 2006

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Editor's Note

• Editor's Note: What Immigration Crisis?

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• Beware the Brown Peril!

  Peter Bagge

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Crystal Smear

  David Weigel

  Meth joke backlash

• Financial Friendly Fire

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Dead and wounded debtors

• The Fox Effect

  Brian Doherty

  Cable news and elections

• Moonshine Mirage

  Ronald Bailey

  Ethanol and independence

• Free to Paint

  Brian Doherty

  Graffitit law tagged out?

• Tax and Lend

  Kerry Howley

  Small-business subsidies

• Open Secrets

  Jacob Sullum

  Classification Overkill

• Hit List

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Deadly sex offender registries

• Nothing Personal

  Jacob Sullum

  The NSA's illegal data collection

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Newark's New Choice

  David Weigel

  Cory Booker interviewed by David Weigel

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Goodbye to Big Government?

  Nick Gillespie

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• Too Diverse to Be 'Diversity'

  Cathy Young

  Is it "harassment" to recommend a book?

• How Did You Vote During the War, Daddy?

  Brian Doherty

  Public disenchantment with the war probably won't matter in November.

• Fear of a Brown Planet

  David Weigel

  Immigration hawks send out an SOS: "More white babies!"

Features

• Immigration Now, Immigration Tomorrow, Immigration Forever

  Reason's guide to reality-based reform.

• The Kurds Go Their Own Way

  Michael J. Totten

  Can freedom flower in Iraqi Kurdistan?

Culture & Reviews

• The Honorable Representative from Ohio Will Now Beam Up

  James Traficant's greatest Trek hits

• Happy 40th Birthday, Star Trek

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Why Captain Kirk's story is the story of America

• Endangered Evolutionists

  Kenneth Silber

  A new film ponders the popularity of "intelligent design."

• Shopping for Me, But Not for Thee

  Cheryl Miller

  The complications of voluntary simplicity

Book Reviews

• The Vitiated Center

  Brian Doherty

  The successful failures of right and left intellectuals.

Artifact

• Artifact: Andy Warhol's Ironic Achievement

  Nick Gillespie