Health Nuts
How Congress kept me from giving my employees Medical Savings Accounts
Law & Government
Software Pirates
Congress never gave the FDA power to control medical practice. But the agency seized it anyway--by regulating software and computers.
Unlovely Spam
Efforts to deter unsolicited e-mail may cause more problems than they would solve.
Bones of Contention
A federal law stands between scientists and America's prehistoric past.
Dealers' Choices
The tobacco companies have renounced the principles that made it possible to defend them.
Let's Make a Deal
As the proposed tobacco settlement heads to Congress, the anti-smoking movement is divided over whether it's a good deal after all. A guide to the players, the alliances they've established, and who hopes to get what.
Courting Trouble
Congress would rather complain about life-tenured federal judges than make recalcitrant bureaucrats enforce the law.
Taxing Times
Squabbling between flat taxers and sales taxers could allow the Internal Revenue Code to escape unscathed.
Polluted Science
New air pollution regulations based on questionable science and creative economic analysis could cost billions and change the way Americans mow their lawns, heat their homes, clean their clothes, and barbecue their burgers. Can Congress stop this regulatory power grab?
Armey of the Right
Majority Leader Dick Armey may well be the next Speaker of the House. What's his agenda?
Hints from Eloise
Welfare-reform pioneer Eloise Anderson speaks bluntly--as always--about race, class, sex, and the realities of "the system."
