May 1999

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Think independent counsels use dirty tricks? Check out the Justice Department's regular prosecutors.

Southern Gothic

The price of presidential prevarication

Nick Gillespie
Source Code

Al Gore says he invented the Internet. What does he mean?

Virginia Postrel

The President in the Attic

Who is Bill Clinton?

Charles Paul Freund
Truthless.com

A "Tom Clancy" thriller lends support to the foes of encryption.

Mike Godwin
Capital Letters: Linear Thinking

In which our man in Washington contemplates the virtues of urban planning, literacy, and marriage

Michael W. Lynch
Prosecutorial Abuse

Reinventing the Independent Counsel Act for fun and profit.

Thomas W. Hazlett
April Frauds

Three manufactured holidays make fools of us all.

Tama Starr
Firing Squad

In the gun litigation wars, who really speaks for federalism?

Walter Olson

Liberation Biology

Scientist Lee M. Silver on cloning wars, bioethical battles, and new and improved genes
The "Hate State" Myth

In Wyoming, there are a few bigots who don't like gays. In the media, there are a lot more bigots who don't like Wyoming.

Robert O. Blanchard