Manufacturing Consensus

Building a bipartisan truth one questionable ‘fact’ at a time

Matt Welch

Contributors

Letters

Who’s More Anti-Science: Republicans or Democrats?

Comparing the applied ignorance of our two major political parties

Ronald Bailey

Executive Kill Switch

Should the president have the power to kill anyone he considers an enemy?

Jacob Sullum

The Quantified Self

What will life be like when every aspect of your existence is as easy to access as the latest Lady Gaga single?

Greg Beato

The Never-Ending Budget Battle

Writing rules to stop Congress from spending is hopeless.

Veronique de Rugy

The Moral Foundations of Occupy Wall Street

An illustrated guide to the signs at Zuccotti Park

Jonathan Haidt

Medicare Whac-A-Mole

Why health care price controls always fail

Peter Suderman

Terror TV

Homeland shows the messier side of the security bureaucracy.

Peter Suderman

Ken Burns on Prohibition, Pot, and PBS

Q&A with America’s top documentarian

Nick Gillespie

Controlling Guns, Controlling People

A new history shows how gun control goes hand in hand with fear of black people—and The People.

Thaddeus Russell

I, Panel

Solyndra’s story, with apologies to Leonard E. Read

Tim Cavanaugh

Holy Terrible

Peter Suderman

Spinoza’s Abominations

Katherine Mangu-Ward

Weedcrawler

Mike Riggs

Tranströmer, More Than Meets the Eye

Michael C. Moynihan

King and Country

Kmele Foster

Tear Down This Fence

Occupy Oakland turns chain link into art.

Katherine Mangu-Ward