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May 1989

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Miracle on 109th Street

Schools compete, parents choose, students thrive…as Harlem goes, so goes the nation?

John Hood

Features

Cleaning Up the Teamsters

A government takeover may be the only way to get the mobsters out of the world's largest union

Michael McMenamin

Interview

Miller Time: An Interview with James C. Miller III

Reagan's budget boss speaks out

Tom Bethell

Books

Lifestyles of the Smart and Famous

Loren Lomasky

Making Peace with Leviathan

David Boaz

Economist! Drama! Prose!

Thomas W. Hazlett

Book Hints

Lynn Scarlett

Thatcherism Without the Lady

Lord Harris

Weaned from Government

Donald Lambro

Editorials

Reconsidering Roe

Virginia Postrel

Free to Offend

Robert Poole

By the Way…

Reason Staff

Why Guns?

Craig Collins

Columns

Dukakis Watch: Checking in at the "Last Resort"

Jeff Jacoby

Reality: Modern Living

The movie

T. Holland

The Inner City: "Now They've Owned Something"

Virginia Postrel

Life & Liberty: The Comics Grow Up

Charles Oliver

Life & Liberty: Color Me Blue

Michael Konik

Citings

Balance Sheet

Virginia Postrel

Testing AIDS Policy

Charles Oliver

Pretty Soon We'll Be Talking About Real Money

Reason Staff

New Life for the Danish Progress Party?

Otto Brons-Petersen

Business Schools

Charles Oliver

When Irish Gays Are Smilin'

Charles Oliver

A Dope-y Policy

Craig Collins

Letters

Politics

Letters

Reason Staff

Brickbats

Brickbats

Mark Edward Crane

57 YEARS OF REASON

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