May 2008

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Editor's Notes

• When Coalitions Dissolve

  Matt Welch

  As the GOP breaks apart, some blame the vanishing breed of free market Republicans.

Contributors

• Contributors

Letters

• Letters

Citings

• So Long, Seattle

  Radley Balko

  Stadium welfare schemes

• Free Ride

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Organ donation debate

• Downloading Lies

  David Weigel

  Anti-piracy propaganda

• Operation Overdose

  Radley Balko

  Better dead than high

• Sin Tax Creep

  Kerry Howley

  No child left inside

• Papers Please!

  Ronald Bailey

  Big Farmer is watching

• Need to Know

  Brian Doherty

  State secrets in court

• Mandatory Niceness

  Jacob Sullum

  'Human rights' in Canada

Soundbites

• Soundbite: Can You Hear the People Sing?

  Matt Welch

Years Ago

• 30 Years Ago in Reason

  May 1978

Data

• Data: Arrivals Down, Panic Up

  Kerry Howley

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

  Lookalike drugs, breached Social Security numbers, and fiendish fruit vendors

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• Rewiring the System

  Ed Burns

  The Wire's Ed Burns offers three solutions for the inner cities

Columns

• Hollywood's Decency Epidemic

  Greg Beato

  An onslaught of wholesome entertainment

• Serve the (Old) People

  Paul Thornton

  National Service or Generational Welfare?

• Free Market Clintonism, RIP

  David Weigel

  The death of the free trade Democrat

Features

• Power From the People

  Brian Doherty

  What happens when creative consumers decide to generate their own energy?

• Guilty Before Proven Innocent

  Radley Balko

  How police harassment, jailhouse snitches, and a runaway war on drugs imprisoned an innocent family

• The Trillion-Dollar War

  Veronique de Rugy

  The War on Terror is now more expensive than Vietnam or World War I—but the dishonest way Washington is paying for it may prove costliest of all.

Culture & Reviews

• 'Technology Is at the Center'

  Ronald Bailey

  Entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Thiel on liberty and scientific progress

• Little Brother Is Watching

  Jesse Walker

  Defending human rights with cameras and Internet connections

Book Reviews

• Flight of the Neocons

  Michael C. Moynihan

  From liberal hawks to "National Greatness" conservatives

• Pirate Capitalism

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Remix culture goes corporate

Artifacts

• Artifact: Castro Shrugged

  Brian Doherty