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Policy

Rebel Yell

Tennesseeans fight back against the conquering cities.

Jesse Walker | 6.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

Selected Skirmishes: French Lessons

Jospin removes laissez faire from the vocabulary.

Thomas W. Hazlett | 5.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

Reasonable Doubts: Still Crazy

Are federal judges taming the ADA? Don't count on it.

Walter Olson | 5.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

Heavy Silence

Why no one wants to talk about obesity and breast cancer

Michael Fumento | 4.1.1998 12:00 AM

Politics

Selected Skirmishes: Tabloid Trash

Bill Clinton's mounting problems

Thomas W. Hazlett | 4.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

More Bang For the Yen?

Japan's financial reforms are more cosmetic than real.

Michael Oakes | 4.1.1998 12:00 AM

Politics

Reasonable Doubts: Tripp Wire

How informers ended up behind every office potted plant.

Walter Olson | 4.1.1998 12:00 AM

Politics

The Seven Deadly Sins of Politics

What's wrong with Clinton? Let us count the faults.

John Pitney | 4.1.1998 12:00 AM

Politics

The Broadcast Giveaway

When "the public interest" means free ads for politicians

Adam Powell III | 4.1.1998 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Masters of Manipulation

The muzzling of a chiropractor shows the First Amendment is no match for the Federal Trade Commission.

Brian Doherty | 3.1.1998 12:00 AM

Politics

Selected Skirmishes: Dirty Dozen

Twelve ethical legacies of the Clinton presidency

Thomas W. Hazlett | 3.1.1998 12:00 AM

Politics

Tax Time

How Congress spells relief

Mike Lynch | 3.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

Family Planning

Social engineering tempts the right.

Walter Olson | 3.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

Carolina Couch Controversy

Local busybodies target the front porch.

John Reed | 3.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

Chemical Reaction

The EPA wants to reduce materials, not danger.

Lynn Scarlett | 3.1.1998 12:00 AM

Politics

A Sixth Opinion

A panel of political appointees will give Gulf War Syndrome the presidential seal.

Michael Fumento | 2.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

Selected Skirmishes: Busy Work

How energetically government protects the public interest

Thomas W. Hazlett | 2.1.1998 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Reasonable Doubts: Title IX from Outer Space

How federal law is killing men's college sports

Walter Olson | 2.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

Growing Pains

The stunting of Silicon Valley's growth

Brian Taylor | 2.1.1998 12:00 AM

Politics

Peking Duck

Selling out--constructively

Thomas W. Hazlett | 1.1.1998 12:00 AM

Politics

Reasonable Doubts: Their Own Petard

Fans of activist litigation discover the other guy can sue too.

Walter Olson | 1.1.1998 12:00 AM

Policy

Identity Crisis

If the government is serious about keeping illegal immigrants from working, a national ID card may be inevitable.

Daniel Sutherland | 12.1.1997 12:00 AM

Policy

Selected Skirmishes: Kiddie Pawn

Educational TV's hyperlink to smut

Thomas W. Hazlett | 12.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Health Nuts

How Congress kept me from giving my employees Medical Savings Accounts

John Hood | 12.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Reasonable Doubts: For Heaven's Sake

Religious accommodation and other openings for big-government conservatism

Walter Olson | 12.1.1997 12:00 AM

Economics

Literature in Chains

Are superstore databases turning books into pretzels?

Charles Paul Freund | 11.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Computer Games

The crime of Internet subsidies

James DeLong | 11.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Selected Skirmishes: Presidential Softball

Clinton gets blanked by the Supremes.

Thomas W. Hazlett | 11.1.1997 12:00 AM

Policy

Reasonable Doubts: Say What?

Civil rights enforcers go after "accent discrimination."

Walter Olson | 11.1.1997 12:00 AM

Policy

Fine Wines and Wine Fines

Restrictions on interstate sales of alcoholic beverages turn oenophiles into smugglers.

James Plummer | 11.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

New Waterworld Order

Real offshore havens are on the horizon.

Kenneth Silber | 11.1.1997 12:00 AM

Culture

Readin', Russians, and Romance

So Tolstoy's not Russia's best seller? When was he?

Charles Paul Freund | 10.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Selected Skirmishes: Planet Reich

Thanks for the memoirs

Thomas W. Hazlett | 10.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Unlovely Spam

Efforts to deter unsolicited e-mail may cause more problems than they would solve.

Mike Lynch | 10.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Bones of Contention

A federal law stands between scientists and America's prehistoric past.

John Miller | 10.1.1997 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

The Tin Drum Meets the Tin Badge

How a classic 1979 film suddenly turned into child porn

Charles Oliver | 10.1.1997 12:00 AM

Civil Liberties

Reasonable Doubts: Free To Commit

"Covenant marriage" could strengthen families. So why are traditionalists lukewarm?

Walter Olson | 10.1.1997 12:00 AM

Policy

Selected Skirmishes: Cash Money

How consumer activists sabotage ATM customers

Thomas W. Hazlett | 8.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Courting Trouble

Congress would rather complain about life-tenured federal judges than make recalcitrant bureaucrats enforce the law.

Mike Lynch | 8.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Taxing Times

Squabbling between flat taxers and sales taxers could allow the Internal Revenue Code to escape unscathed.

Daniel Mitchell | 8.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Reasonable Doubts: Retro Style

Redefining yesterday's green light as red

Walter Olson | 8.1.1997 12:00 AM

Policy

Environmental Injustice

How green ideology denies poor blacks good jobs

Henry Payne | 8.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Selected Skirmishes: Volunteering for Duty

Mission creep permeates the Summit for America's Future.

Thomas W. Hazlett | 7.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Money Walks

Why campaign contributions aren't as corrupting as you think

Jeff Milyo | 7.1.1997 12:00 AM

Policy

Reasonable Doubts: Mugging Libertarians

The Weekly Standard's case against laissez faire

Walter Olson | 7.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

MFNemies

Beijing's atrocities put free-traders on the defensive

Rick Henderson | 7.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Selected Skirmishes: The Cubic Zirconia Court

"Must carry" cable rules don't sparkle.

Thomas W. Hazlett | 6.1.1997 12:00 AM

Politics

Reasonable Doubts: Shut Up, They Explained

The speech police discover "zero tolerance."

Walter Olson | 6.1.1997 12:00 AM

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