Who Killed Real ID?
An unlikely coalition wins a post-9/11 victory for civil liberties
Features
What Part of Legal Immigration Don't You Understand?
A guide to America's labyrinthine immigration bureaucracy
The One-Man Wall
How a single Arizona legislator's obsession has changed immigration policy for the worse
Earning Their Keep
A new breed of urban Catholic high school asks disadvantaged kids to work for their tuition.
What's the Matter With Chicago?
and Seattle and New York and Boston...?
The Cult of the Presidency
Who can we blame for the radical expansion of executive power? Look no further than you and me.
Power From the People
What happens when creative consumers decide to generate their own energy?
Guilty Before Proven Innocent
How police harassment, jailhouse snitches, and a runaway war on drugs imprisoned an innocent family
The Trillion-Dollar War
The War on Terror is now more expensive than Vietnam or World War I—but the dishonest way Washington is paying for it may prove costliest of all.
After Putin
As Vladimir Putin prepares to step down and orchestrate his succession, Russia continues to roll back freedom--but not all the way back.
Neither Gods Nor Goo
Avoiding both utopian and apocalyptic forecasts for nanotechnology
Legacies of Injustice
Alumni preferences threaten educational equity--and no one seems to care.
Big Box Panic
Americans have been afraid of chain stores for nearly a century, but independent outlets keep thriving.
Guests in the Machine
Guest worker programs may be the best hope many of the world's poorest people have for improving their lives.
Thank Deng Xiaoping for Little Girls
The tyrannical roots of China's international adoption program
Breaking Up the Forensics Monopoly
Eight ways to fix a broken system
Ties That Bind
The canonical conflict-of-interest cases
The 4 Boneheaded Biases of Stupid Voters
(And we're all stupid voters.)
Is Industry-Funded Science Killing You?
The overrated risks and underrated benefits of pharmaceutical research "conflicts of interest"
The Next Iranian Revolution
How armed exiles are working to topple Tehran's Islamic Government
The Limits of Anti-Kelo Legislation
Reformers are trying to outlaw eminent domain abuse. But will the laws they're passing be effective?
Dying for Lifesaving Drugs
Will desperate patients destroy the pharmaceutical system that produces tomorrow's treatments?
Robert Heinlein at 100
How the science fiction master created the template for our looser, hipper, more pluralist world.
The Aquarians and the Evangelicals
How left-wing hippies and right-wing fundamentalists created a libertarian America.
'You Can't See Why on an fMRI'
What science can, and can't, tell us about the insanity defense
The Minority Leader
Is Sen. Tom Coburn an extreme social conservative, a libertarian hero, or both?
Spiritual Highs and Legal Blows
The power and peril of religious exemptions from drug prohibition
Looking for God in All the Wrong Places
How can you have a religion without a church?
The Folly of Southern Hospitality
Dixie leads the way in lavish corporate subsidies. As other parts of the country follow suit, it's time to ask whether such incentives work.
How Traffic Jams Are Made In City Hall
The bad logic and failed policies of transportation planners
The Life and Times of Milton Friedman
Remembering the 20th century's most influential libertarian.
Dangerous When in Power
Does government protect us from hazardous products, or does it put us in harm's way?
