Obamacare's Phony Success Story
After year one, the health care overhaul is riddled with problems.
August/September 2014
Selling Obamacare
The weird, misleading propaganda behind the federal health care law
Features
Culture & Reviews
The $2 Million Teacher
Teachers Pay Teachers lets educators reassert their professionalism-and earn big bucks.
Krist Novoselic's Alternative Politics
The Nirvana bassist on voting, farming, anarchism, heroin, and Kurt Cobain.
Books
Living With Inequality
Has Thomas Piketty really found "the central contradiction of capitalism"?
The Secret History of the Telephone Network
The public utility model of telecommunications was not as inevitable as it seems today.
How 'Crazy Negroes' With Guns Helped Kill Jim Crow
Civil rights and armed self-defense in the South
Editor's Note
Barack Obama: Stealth Libertarian?
As unlikely as it sounds, anti-interventionists may miss the 44th president when he's gone.
Columns
A Lethal Injection of Reality
Medicalizing executions helps maintain support for the death penalty.
The Crony Capitalism Machine
The Export-Import Bank is inefficient and immoral.
Smart Apps vs. Obamacare
The Affordable Care Act locks in the status quo, but new technology is making health care cheaper and more individualized.
Citings
Return of the Anti-War Right
Sen. Rand Paul is among those insisting on a less aggressive approach to foreign policy.
Google Dark
In April an anonymous individual launched a search engine called Grams that caters to contraband needs.
Digital Lineups
The FBI plans to stick the mugs of almost 1 in 6 Americans into a facial recognition database by next year.
Being a Libertarian in D.C.
What does it mean to be a libertarian? Matt Kibbe attempts to answer with his bestselling new book, "Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto."
The Power of Failure
Most people think of failure as something to be avoided. But in her book "The Up Side of Down" (Viking), Bloomberg View columnist Megan McArdle argues that it's actually a key to success.
Briefly Noted
Letters
Artifact
Fooling the Cameras
Leo Selvaggio plans to confound the world's surveillance systems by distributing lifelike masks of his own face.
