August/September 2018
Cover Story
Innocent Until Proven Guilty, But Only If You Can Pay
How America's bail system traps poor people in jail
Features
America's Biggest Rental Car Company Is Lobbying to Drive Away Competitors
Enterprise is the dominant player in the rental car market, and it has every incentive to restrict the operations of upstart competitors.
How New York Strangled Its Mom-and-Pop Rental Car Companies
Why does an economy car rent for an astonishing $161 per day in Manhattan? Because onerous insurance laws cartelized the industry.
When the Supreme Court Blessed the Imperial Presidency
The story of how classical liberal Justice George Sutherland enabled executive overreach abroad.
Interviews
Up Close and Personal With Philadelphia's Heroin Crisis
Journalist Christopher Moraff talks about a better way to report on drug culture in America.
Topics
FDA May Soon Allow MDMA Prescriptions for PTSD
MDMA, which was banned by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 1985, could be available by prescription as soon as 2021.
You Have a Right to Repair and Replace
Should the government even be involved in this?
Can Border Agents Search Your Phone Without a Warrant?
The requirement to get a warrant may not apply when an American citizen is returning home from abroad and U.S. border officials want to search the contents of that person's phone.
Slavery Did Not Make America Rich
Ingenuity, not capital accumulation or exploitation, made cotton a little king.
'Constitutional Conservatives' Lose Interest in Holding Trump Accountable
As on war and spending, the constitutional conservative approach to oversight is best demonstrated when the president is a Democrat.
Good Riddance to Trump's Border Bouncer
"If you're in this country illegally and you committed a crime by entering this country, you should be uncomfortable."
Let Freedom Boom
Fireworks are no different from any other good demanded by consenting individuals.
Black Bodies, Radical Politics, and Rebellious Robots
Reading Zora Neale Hurston's study of the life of the last "black cargo" and watching Westworld
Reviews
Culture
House Committee on Un-American Activities
The Life and Death of a Hollywood Blacklist
Sometimes censorship is a public-private partnership.
Books
The Democracy Theorist in the Age of Trump
Saving liberal democracy one platitude at a time
Can Bitcoin Become the Global Monetary Standard?
With its supply permanently capped at 21 million units, Satoshi Nakamoto's invention may turn out to be the best form of money ever conceived.
Brickbats
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