June 2009

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Editor's Note

• Obama Loses His "Cool"

  Matt Welch

  With his glib dismissal of pot legalization, the president looks less like the man, and more like The Man.

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Gutting D.C. School Vouchers After They Work As Predicted

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Sex Shop Scandal

  Radley Balko

  Zoning Compliance

• Warriors on Drugs

  Mike Riggs

  Gamers and ganja

• Price of Prohibition

  Jacob Sullum

  Drug policy and Latin America

• Reforestation

  Ronald Bailey

  Trees grow on money

• Cell Blocks for Cell Hacks

  Jacob Sullum

  iPhone I.P.

• I.T. Go Home

  Brian Doherty

  Skilled immigrant exodus

• Hiking in Hoboken

  Matt Welch

  Revolting property taxes

• Lawyers' War Dance

  Jeff Winkler

  Tribal ritual = intellectual property?

• Green Money

  Ronald Bailey

  Global warming lobbyists

• The Truck Stops Here

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Driving while Mexican

• Trust Fund

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Regulation and corruption

Soundbites

• What Caused the Crisis?

  Michael C. Moynihan

Years Ago

• 35 Years Ago in Reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Scarlett Green

  Lynn Scarlett

Columns

• Birth of a Cocaine Factoid

  Jacob Sullum

  A prohibition-friendly estimate of drug-related deaths turns out to be bogus.

• The Age of Debt

  Veronique de Rugy

  Barack Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility"—and delivers the opposite.

• Barter Country

  Greg Beato

  As the economy suffers, a nation turns toward cashless transactions.

Features

• Energy Futures

  Ronald Bailey

  A quick guide to alternative energy.

• Nostalgianomics

  Brink Lindsey

  Liberal economists pine for days no liberal should want to revisit.

• Electric Intelligence

  Lynne Kiesling

  Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies.

• Dangerous Toys, Strange Bedfellows

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Hipster moms and conservative congressmen join forces against the regulatory state.

• It's Alive!

  Ronald Bailey

  Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter.

Culture & Reviews

• Information Wants To Be Kindled

  Radley Balko

• The Calm Before the Storm

• The Freaky Father of Fitness

  Brian Doherty

• Mystery Science Reincarnation

  Clark Stooksbury

  A TV cult classic is reborn and multiplied online

• Hired News

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Will P.R. pros take the baton of investigative journalism?

• The Internet Saved My Tongue

  Ezra Levant

  How I beat Canada's 'human rights' censors

Book Reviews

• Life in the Long Tail

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Blackbeard Economics

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  The surprising, and surprisingly tame, self-organization of pirates.

Artifact

• The Eyeborg

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Little Brother is watching, too.