January 2010

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Editor's Note

• Why I Prefer French Health Care

  Matt Welch

  The U.S. system’s deep flaws make socialism more tempting

Contributors

• Contributors

  January 2010

Letters

• Letters

  January 2010

Citings

• Taxi Scam

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  D.C. bribery scandal

• Pushcart War

  Damon W. Root

  Permission to compete

• Carry, Opened

  Brian Doherty

  Fourth Amendment victory

• Meth Method Madness

  Jacob Sullum

  Sudafed crackdown fallout

• Trade War

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Chickens and Volkswagens

• Commandante Climate

  Ronald Bailey

  Castro vs. CO2

• Stand and Deliver

  Lisa Snell

  School choice in L.A.

• Billboard Big Brother?

  Sam Staley

  Not-so-private concern

• Oil Without Dinos?

  Ronald Bailey

  New energy sources

• Fighting Fire With Pork

  Peter Suderman

  D.C. stimulus boondoggle

• Crossing the Line

  Radley Balko

  Mann Act manhandlers

• Like a Virgin

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Sex in the Arab world

• Geoengineering the Climate

  Ronald Bailey

  Followup

Soundbites

• The Red Album

  Michael C. Moynihan

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago

  January 1980

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes January 2010

Lists

• Fighting Secrecy

Columns

• The Criminalization of Protest

  Radley Balko

  Police and politicians ignore the First Amendment when we need it the most.

• Medical Marijuana Muddle

  Jacob Sullum

  Obama’s new policy sounds good, but it may not make much difference

• Markets, Not Mandates

  Ronald Bailey

  What would real health care reform look like?

• Canned Laughter Lives!

  Greg Beato

  The ghost of the laugh track survives online.

• Have a Coke and a Tax

  Veronique de Rugy

  The economic case against soda taxes

Features

• Online Resources

  Don’t miss reason’s up-to-the-minute coverage of health care at reason.com and reason.tv. Here are some of the highlights

• The Mackey Plan at a Glance

• The States’ Failed Experiments

  Peter Suderman

  The major provisions of ObamaCare have already been tried. And they don’t look good

• Progressives vs. Democracy

  Brian Doherty

  The health care debate reveals a nasty tendency within liberal politics.

• The Gatekeeper

  Peter Suderman

  How a little bureaucratic office became the biggest impediment to Barack Obama’s health care plans

Interviews

• Whole Foods Health Care

  Matt Welch & Nick Gillespie

  Organic-foods magnate John Mackey talks about his controversial health care proposals, why he was investigated by the feds, and “conscious capitalism.”

Culture & Reviews

• It Takes a Village Atheist

  Kerry Howley

  Barbara Ehrenreich’s jeremiad against cheerful thinking

• Driving Miss Lazy

  Greg Beato

  In praise of drive-through

• Beyond Pleasantville

  Jesse Walker

  Permissiveness wasn’t born in the ’60s

• Nader Shrugged

  Joseph Mailander

  The anti-corporate crusader tries to write an Ayn Rand novel

• Artificial Housing Respiration

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Government-sponsored housing inflation is locking the next generation out of homeownership.

Briefly Noted

• Hey Citizens! Comics!

  Brian Doherty

• Boo Santa

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Capitalism: Not Just for the Rich Anymore

  Brian Doherty

• Free Parking

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Pulp Revisionism

  Damon W. Root

Artifact

• Conan the Cruel?

  Jacob Sullum

  When the feds ban films of animal cruelty