Public Health

Policy

Lay Off the Fatties

They're not hurting anybody -- maybe not even themselves.

Jacob Sullum | 10.30.2006 7:29 AM

Policy

How the Upper Crust Eats

Food as a status symbol

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.25.2006 12:27 PM

Policy

Rant: The Night Chicago Died

Suddenly, it's hard to be a sinner in the Windy City

Nick Gillespie | 9.4.2006 11:56 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

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

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

Policy

Better Not Shop Around

Online cigarette sales.

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2006 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

Stem Cells Sell

There's no shortage of private funding for research

Ronald Bailey | 10.3.2005 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

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

Open Secrets of Biosecurity

Preventing the life sciences from becoming the death sciences.

Ronald Bailey | 7.6.2005 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

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

Politics

Global Ecological Collapse?

The UN exaggerates problems, but gets solutions right

Ronald Bailey | 3.31.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Who Will Watch the Watchers?

Hillary Clinton wants to save your kids from the stuff you let them see.

Jacob Sullum | 3.18.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Foreign AIDS

America's overseas social engineering

Kerry Howley | 3.2.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Do Drug Companies Kill Poor People?

How for-profit medicine helps even the poorest

Ronald Bailey | 1.5.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Snus Ruse

Why lie about smokeless tobacco when a misleading half-truth will do?

Jacob Sullum | 12.24.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Is Heaven Populated Chiefly by the Souls of Embryos?

Harvesting stem cells without tears

Ronald Bailey | 12.22.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Fund the Future

California wants you to pay for stem cell research

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.21.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Smoking in the Dark

Did the tobacco companies fool anyone? Did they fool everyone?

Jacob Sullum | 9.17.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Pill Stoppers

The DEA acknowledges yet denies the conflict between drug control and pain control

Jacob Sullum | 8.20.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

The War on Fat

Is the size of your butt the government's business?

Jacob Sullum | 8.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Dr. Feelscared

Drug warriors put the fear of prosecution in physicians who dare to treat pain.

Maia Szalavitz | 8.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Heavy Burden

The consequences of treating obesity as a disease

Jacob Sullum | 7.23.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Miracle in Helena

Smoking bans and heart attacks.

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2004 12:00 AM

Policy

Big Mac Attack

Super Size Me asks the question: Is McDonald's unappealing -- or irresistible?

Jacob Sullum | 7.1.2004 12:00 AM