Health

Policy

The Accidental Drug Trafficker

A repudiation of prosecutions that treat doctors' errors in judgment as felonies

Jacob Sullum | 8.30.2006 9:56 AM

Policy

The Fried Logic of Food Police

Trans fat in fast food? Who knew?

Jacob Sullum | 8.18.2006 10:27 AM

Policy

AIDS at 25

Where do we stand?

Ronald Bailey | 8.14.2006 1:55 PM

Policy

Abraham vs. Hodgkin

Is a 16-year-old wise enough to decide to skip chemotherapy?

Cathy Young | 8.1.2006 4:03 PM

Policy

Polio, Autism, or Neither?

The autism/vaccine scandal dissipates

Ronald Bailey | 7.24.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Big Brother Prescribes

Are mandatory aerobics classes in your future?

Ronald Bailey | 7.14.2006 2:23 PM

Policy

Big Brother Prescribes

Are mandatory aerobics classes in your future?

Ronald Bailey | 7.14.2006 2:23 PM

Policy

The Battle for Roethlisberger's Brain

Is freedom just another word for falling on your face?

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Patent Remedies

Do we need drug patents?

Brian Doherty | 6.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Are Yanks Sicker Than Brits?

Or are we just a bunch of hypochondriacs?

Ronald Bailey | 5.26.2006 11:12 AM

Politics

Pop Out

The new school beverage policy won't make students noticeably thinner

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2006 10:14 AM

Policy

Of Penises and Pesticides

Are synthetic chemicals responsible for male shortcomings?

Ronald Bailey | 5.5.2006 11:06 AM

Policy

Unfair Food

Obesity litigation twist

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Whites Only Medicine?

Why it's OK if it cures patients

Ronald Bailey | 4.21.2006 11:01 AM

Policy

Is Diabetes a Plague?

Eroding the distinction between public and private health

Ronald Bailey | 3.17.2006 10:46 AM

Politics

Government Kills Blacks With AIDS Virus

The real AIDS conspiracy revealed

Ronald Bailey | 3.10.2006 10:33 AM

Policy

Clean Air Calabasas

A smoke-free, family-friendly atmosphere of moralistic intolerance

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2006 9:40 AM

Politics

Curb Your Enthusiasms

Moralists left and right want to control your carnal desires.

Radley Balko | 3.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Absolution in Your Cup

The real meaning of Fair Trade coffee.

Kerry Howley | 3.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

The Crimes of Pot Justice

When marijuana arrests might be death sentences.

Brian Doherty | 2.6.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Better Not Shop Around

Online cigarette sales.

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

That Chemo Cachet

Medical marijuana and kids.

Jacob Sullum | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Cluster Busters

Fast food near schools.

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The End of Pandemics

Bird flu could be the last super-plague.

Ronald Bailey | 11.11.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Safety, Efficacy, Morality

Ronald Bailey | 11.4.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Does Pot Lead to Suicide for Supreme Court Justices?

Vague Commerce Clause precedents give free rein to personal preferences.

Jacob Sullum | 10.7.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The End of Physician Assisted Suicide?

What the Supreme Court's pot case means for the right to end your life

Ronald Bailey | 10.5.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Stem Cells Sell

There's no shortage of private funding for research

Ronald Bailey | 10.3.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Good Till the Last Drop Dead

Coffee's vindicators tout a message no one wants to hear

Kerry Howley | 8.31.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Watching the Detectives

Epidemiologists are hot on the trail of the obesity pathogen

Jacob Sullum | 8.26.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Do We Really Need the Feds?

Funding stem-cell research without Uncle Sam

Ronald Bailey | 8.24.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Editor's Note: Medical Marijuana Madness

Nick Gillespie | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The Mental Health Crisis That Wasn't

How the trauma industry exploited 9/11.

Sally Satel and Christina Hoff Sommers | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Locking Up Life-Saving Drugs

Prescription laws make us sicker and poorer.

Kerry Howley | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Fat Nannies Want to Bust Your Gut

The right obesity policy does not hinge on the latest numbers

Jacob Sullum | 7.15.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Is Janice Rogers Brown Really Walter Mondale?

To confirm their judge, Republicans abandoned their ideas

Jonathan Rauch | 7.7.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Open Secrets of Biosecurity

Preventing the life sciences from becoming the death sciences.

Ronald Bailey | 7.6.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

A Heap of Precedents

Slippery slopes, stare decisis, and popular opinion

Jonathan Rauch | 7.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The Perpetual Health Care Crisis

There may be no public policy solution to health care.

Brian Doherty | 7.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Science, Not Secrecy

Impeding research doesn't enhance homeland security

Ronald Bailey | 6.22.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

No Clause for Celebration

Flush that commerce, it's the feds!

Jacob Sullum | 6.10.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Lying: The Government's Drug

How Raich helps us delude ourselves

Matt Welch | 6.8.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

What were those justices smoking?

The medical marijuana ruling is legally and morally flawed.

Nick Gillespie | 6.7.2005 12:12 AM

Politics

Should We Cure Bad Behavior?

Tough questions about crime and neuro-rehabilitation

Ronald Bailey | 6.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

The Poison in the Pill

Nick Gillespie | 5.17.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

A Fistful of Lard

The "fatophobia" backlash

Cathy Young | 5.10.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Immaculate Contraception

Medicine and theology face off in the pharmacy

Kerry Howley | 4.7.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Global Ecological Collapse?

The UN exaggerates problems, but gets solutions right

Ronald Bailey | 3.31.2005 12:00 AM