Nanny State
Drug Trial
Is "medicalization" the first step in ending the drug war? Or just the next step in continuing it? Jacob Sullum lays out the "public health" issues and a panel of experts responds.
Fat Chances
The Fat of the Land: The Obesity Epidemic and How Overweight Americans Can Help Themselves, by Michael Fumento; Eat Fat, by Richard Klein
A Sixth Opinion
A panel of political appointees will give Gulf War Syndrome the presidential seal.
Reasonable Doubts: Their Own Petard
Fans of activist litigation discover the other guy can sue too.
Stoned in Santa Barbara
A family owned quarry business is no match for determined bureaucrats.
Same as the Old Boss?
California's term limits are under a legal cloud in the federal courts. But what, if anything, has Prop. 140 changed in Sacramento?