June 2008

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Editor's Note

• From the Top: City of Rats

  Matt Welch

  "Thinking big" at the municipal level means abandoning the basics.

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• R.J.'s Law

  David Weigel

  'There Oughta Be a Law'

• Olympic Gag Order

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Athletic politics

• Kidneys for Sale

  Kerry Howley

  Iranian organ donation

• Japan Goes Postal

  Adam B. Summers

  Freeing the mail

• Queue Up

  Ronald Bailey

  Health care rationing

• RateMyCop.com

  Radley Balko

  Reviewing the police

• Missing Pedophiles

  Jacob Sullum

  Online predator hysteria

• Kill Joy

  Michael C. Moynihan

  Sic semper tyrannis

• Republic of Montana

  Radley Balko

  Second Amendment secession

• Collectivist Genes

  Kerry Howley

  Selecting for statism

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Freeing the Innocent

  Radley Balko

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

  June 1978

Data

• Data: Incarceration Nation

  Jacob Sullum

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• List: Fresh From the Farm

  Joel Salatin

Columns

• When Washington Pleads Weakness

  Chris Bray

  Why the U.S. won't crack down on reckless military contractors

• The Birth of the Nuppie

  Greg Beato

  High-end designers target nomadic urban professionals

• Union Rules

  David Weigel

  The Democratic coalition rubs its hands at the prospect of taking over Washington.

Features

• Some Bets Are Off

  Jacob Sullum

  The strangely selective and self-defeating crackdown on Internet gambling.

• The Cult of the Presidency

  Gene Healy

  Who can we blame for the radical expansion of executive power? Look no further than you and me.

Debates

• The Coming Recession

  Seven observers debate the (sorry) state of the economy.

Culture & Reviews

• The Wire Vs. The Sun

  Jesse Walker

  TV's best drama takes on the press.

• High Comedies

  Nick Gillespie

  Great moments in the drug war Kulturkampf

• '30 Years of Failure'

  Radley Balko

  A conversation about the war on drugs with Ed Burns, co-creator of The Wire

• Virtually Free

  Wagner James Au

  An online world embraces regulation.

Book Reviews

• Goldwater Unfiltered

  Daniel McCarthy

  The private journals of the father of the modern conservative movement

Artifact

• Artifact: God on the Lawn

  Jesse Walker