December 2005

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: How Bush Outspends LBJ

  Nick Gillespie

Print Articles

• Reason

  Complete print edition now available in digital version on NewsStand.com

• Reason

  Complete print edition now available in digital version on NewsStand.com

• Reason

  Complete print edition now available in digital version on NewsStand.com

• Reason

  Complete print edition now available in digital version on NewsStand.com

Cartoons

• Amtrak Sucks

  Peter Bagge

  Traveling Soviet-style aboard America's $30,000,000,000.00 nostalgia toy

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Be Seeing E.U.

  Julian Sanchez

  Europe eyes mobile records.

• Cluster Busters

  Jacob Sullum

  Fast food near schools.

• Poppy Flop

  Jacob Sullum

  The drug war's high yields.

• Pundit Payola

  Matt Welch

  Accidental propagandists.

• The Crisis That Wasn't

  Jeff Taylor

  Building a better garbage dump.

• Like Starting Over

  Matt Welch & Julian Sanchez

  Price controls are new again.

• Catfish Terror

  Kerry Howley

  Thinly disguised protectionism.

• Weird Science

  Jesse Walker

  Building a better TARDIS.

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Intimate Revelations

  Kerry Howley

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago in Reason

Data

• Data: Escape from Poverty

  Ronald Bailey

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• I Still Want My @#$%&! MTV!

  Nick Gillespie

  Hey Congress, leave cable and satellite alone

• They Shoot Helicopters, Don't They?

  Matt Welch

  How journalists spread rumors during Katrina.

• No, This Is the Story of the Hurricane

  Cathy Young

  For too many pundits, left and right, Katrina was just another front in the culture war.

• Rant: The Crescent City and the Fiscal Black Hole

  Tim Cavanaugh

  How a phantom golf game made a ghost of fiscal responsibility.

Features

• John McCain's War on Political Speech

  Bradley Smith

  How the Arizona senator and other campaign finance reformers use the law to muffle critics and trample the First Amendment.

• Let a Thousand Choices Bloom

  Debating the future of education reform.

• The Father of Modern School Reform

  Nick Gillespie

  Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman introduced the idea of school vouchers. Now he looks back on his legacy.

• After the Storm

  Jacob Sullum, Jesse Walker, Ronald Bailey, Kerry Howley, Jeff Taylor & David B. Kopel

  Hurricane Katrina and the failure of public policy.

Culture & Reviews

• From Barry's Boys to the Deaniacs

  Jesse Walker

  How alternative media have transformed politics on the left and the right.

• The Prehistory of Cyberspace

  Julian Sanchez

  How BBSes paved the way for the Web.

• Goodbye to Goldwater

  Jonathan Rauch

  Rick Santorum's Republican crusade for big government.

• Dhalgren in New Orleans

  Bidisha Banerjee

  A classic science fiction novel comes to life in the Big Easy.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Dinosaurs vs. Darwin

  Jesse Walker