Jay Rockefeller's Vaping Vapors
A Senate hearing highlights irrational hostility toward e-cigarettes.
Public Health
Is Obesity a Disability?
If the European Court of Justice labels obesity a disability, it would be binding throughout the European Union.
Video Games Build Strong Brains
Too often treated as a social vice rather than a supplement to veggies and fresh air, video games may actually be good for you.
'Tobacco Products' That Aren't
FDA regulation of e-cigarettes could amount to a slow-motion ban.
Mississippi and Oklahoma Governors Sign New Abortion Restrictions
In Mississippi, abortions after 18 weeks are banned, while Oklahoma doctors will have to follow outdated protocols when prescribing abortion drugs.
Save E-Cigarettes From the Children
Concerns about underage consumption should not dictate the choices available to adults.
The Biggest Obstacle to Gender Neutral Bathrooms? Building Codes.
Government went beyond mandating that employers give workers a place to do their business to specifying exactly how and in what ratios this must occur.
Big Brother Is Watching You Eat
The federal government wants to use your technology to change what you eat. In the meantime, they're surreptitiously posting your data online.
Paleo Libertarians
John Durant, author of The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health, tells the story of how he discovered his inner hunter-gatherer.
The Rise and Fall of the New York City Tattoo Ban
How government regulators tried to kill the skin & ink trade.
LA Health Inspectors Shut Down "Dumb Starbucks"
Lack of permits, not a potential trademark violation, got the parody store shut down
TSA Criticized After Cancer Patient is Humiliated at Checkpoint
Wife of the patient, who wears a diaper because of prostate cancer, claims a TSA agent laughed at him
CVS To Stop Selling Tobacco Products By Oct. 1
Will lose around $2 billion a year as a result
Bill Gates Explains How World Is Getting More Awesome and Less Poor
Mythbusting naysayers about third-world development
Uncle Sam's Drinking Game
The federal government's definition of excessive alcohol consumption mixes medicine with moralism.
