The Permanent Nongoverning Minority

The 2010 elections showed that unpredictable grassroots politics are here to stay.

Matt Welch

Contributors

Letters

Abolish Drunk Driving Laws

If lawmakers are serious about saving lives, they should focus on impairment, not alcohol.

Radley Balko

From Yuck to Yippee

The public learns to love a once controversial technology—again.

Ronald Bailey

Penny Reign

America’s least valuable coin endures.

Tim Cavanaugh

The Municipal Debt Bubble

As cities and states boost their debts by 800 percent, a housing-like crisis looms.

Veronique de Rugy

Watching What You Eat

Why has the USDA been plumping up the food stamps program like a factory chicken?

Greg Beato

Obama’s Show Trials

Why prosecute a terrorism suspect if life imprisonment is the only possible outcome?

Jacob Sullum

I’ll Show You My Genome. Will You Show Me Yours?

Our science correspondent reveals his genetic code. Soon you will too.

Ronald Bailey

The War on Cameras

It has never been easier—or more dangerous—to record the police.

Radley Balko

Briefly Noted: Privacy Chic

Radley Balko

Briefly Noted: Anarchy in the USA

Damon W. Root

Briefly Noted: Commercial Appeal

Peter Suderman

Briefly Noted: Civic Art Theft

Michael C. Moynihan

Briefly Noted: An Aerobic Remix

Jesse Walker

The Power Politics of the Prize

The Nobel for literature is about more than literature.

Michael C. Moynihan

Freedom to Fail

Jonathan Franzen ponders the glories and limits of American freedom.

Peter Suderman

Culture Shock

How joy buzzers, trick chairs, and other prank devices helped manufacture the post-industrial American male

Greg Beato

The First War on Terror

What the fight against anarchism tells us about the fight against radical Islam

Brian Doherty

Marked for Life

Constitutionally protected tattoos

Damon W. Root