May 2009

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Editor's Notes

• Obama's Double-Talk

  Matt Welch

  While the president talks sobriety, his policies take America on an economic bender.

Contributors

• Contributors: Adam B. Summers, Tim Harford, Gregory Benford

Letters

• Letters

  Bush's midnight regulations, who's your daddy?, bongs away!...

Citings

• Storm Ahead

  Brian Doherty

  Financial crisis fact sheet

• Overstimulating K-12

  Lisa Snell

  Education spending

• Pennsylvania Railroad

  Jacob Sullum

  Juvenile court corruption

• Hips Abroad

  Ronald Bailey

  Medical outsourcing

• Connecticut vs. Cuba

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Communist cabs

• Conservation Theater

  Radley Balko

  As green as an SUV tow truck

• Bag Check

  Mike Riggs

  Metro search and seizure

• 'Sexting' Scare

  Jacob Sullum

  Cell phone follies

• MySpace = Safe Space

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

  Predator panic debunked

• Follow-Up

  Radley Balko

  Goodbye, Gitmo

Soundbites

• Soundbite: The Raw Deal

  Damon W. Root

Years Ago

• 35 years ago in reason

Brickbats

• Brickbats

  Charles Oliver

Quotes

• Quotes

Lists

• List: Citizen Empowerment

  Paul Jacob

Columns

• Don't Measure Me, Bro

  Tim Cavanaugh

  Why broadcasters fear accurate audience ratings

• When Do Deficits Matter?

  Veronique de Rugy

  While Democrats and Republicans switch sides, economists try to pin down a tipping point.

• I'm So Bored With the NEA

  Greg Beato

  Artists demand "stimulus" subsidies.

• The Indefinite Future of Indefinite Detention

  Jacob Sullum

  President Obama may close Guantanamo, but the policy it represents will continue.

Features

• The Politics of Superheroes

  Jesse Walker

  Want a map of the debates of the early 21st century? Watch a comic-book movie.

• Will We Be Stimulated?

  Nick Gillespie

  Economists sound off on Obama's stimulus package.

• Failed States

  Michael Flynn & Adam B. Summers

  After a long spending binge, governors go begging for a handout. It won't be their last.

Interviews

• Blowing the Whistle on the House of Death

  Radley Balko

  DEA dissenter Sandy Gonzalez reveals the drug war's complicity in torture and murder south of the border.

Culture & Reviews

• Yesterday Is Tomorrow

  Brian Doherty

  Revisiting Annie as a new New Deal dawns

• Briefly Noted: Power Pestering

  Ronald Bailey

• Briefly Noted: Foie Fight

  Katherine Mangu-Ward

• Briefly Noted: News That Stays News

  Radley Balko

• Briefly Noted: Secret Lives, Fictional Sex

  Nick Gillespie

• Briefly Noted: Punk/Metal Rules!

  Damon W. Root

• Choosing Our Own Future

  Gregory Benford

  Will we greet new technologies with more regulation or more liberty?

• The Development Dilemma

  Tim Harford

  Can parking tickets explain why poor countries are poor?

Artifacts

• Hating Milton Friedman

  Damon W. Root

  A proud father of global prosperity.