May 2006

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Editor's Notes

• Editor's Note: Stop With the Panic Already

  Nick Gillespie

Cartoons

• The Beast That Will Not Die!

  Peter Bagge

  Trying to stop America's seemingly unstoppable "War On Drugs"

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• Unfair Food

  Jacob Sullum

  Obesity litigation twist

• Accidental Drug War

  Kerry Howley

  Medicare benefits that bankrupt

• The DOJ's indecent proposal

  Julian Sanchez

  Searching the Searchers

• The Voting Trap

  Brian Doherty

  Cast a vote, build a bias?

• Suing the Spooks

  Julian Sanchez

  NSA wiretap blowback

• Blame the Nonvictim

  Kerry Howley

  Hooking vs. trafficking

• Speed Misreading

  Jacob Sullum

  Meth survey on crack

• Steep Streets

  Ted Balaker & Sam Staley

  Congestion pricing in the U.K.

• Crude Economics

  Brian Doherty

  Cutting off oil hysteria

Balance Sheets

• Balance Sheet

  Jeff Taylor

Soundbites

• Soundbite: In Defense of Attack Ads

  Kerry Howley

Years Ago

• 25 Years Ago at Reason

Data

• Data: Filing Fee

  Jacob Sullum

Quotes

• Quotes

Columns

• The Shocking Truth About Osama bin Laden

  Brendan O'Neill

  Apparently, he reads our blogs.

• The Great Fellatio Scare

  Cathy Young

  Is oral sex really the latest teen craze?

• Rant: Cartoons Make Cowards of Us All

  Tim Cavanaugh

  American editors pine: "If we only had the nerve."

Features

• Peak Oil Panic

  Ronald Bailey

  Is the planet running out of gas? If it is, what should the Bush administration do about it?

• The Strange Case of Steve Wilson

  John Sugg

  How a fraudulent crusader snookered the left-and is threatening the First Amendment

• Sin Cities on a Hill

  Greg Beato

  How legalized gambling moved from the Strip to Main Street.

Culture & Reviews

• Separate But Equal?

  Ronald Bailey

  Can science tell us anything about religion?

• Suffer the Little Children

  Nick Gillespie

  The grim "fun" of highly partisan kid lit

Book Reviews

• Blow for Injustice

  Jacob Sullum

  The scandal of Tulia is the scandal of the war on drugs.

• When Bigots Become Reformers

  Damon W. Root

  The Progressive Era's shameful record on race.

Artifacts

• Artifact: Everything Is Not Illuminated

  Tim Cavanaugh