Flick and Choose
The first remote-control war transformed viewers into editors.
Features
Beyond Big Bird
PBS is a relic in an age of TV choice.
The Sharper Image
I want my HDTV!
PopCultCrit
Karl Marx visits Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
The Superior Mail
Nothing boosts the prospects of private mail delivery like postal service ineptitude and a 22% rate hike.
Beyond Tomorrowland
Realistic, useful alternatives to NASA's grandiose space station
The Swamp Thing
Under new federal policy, wetlands need not be picturesque, ecologically valuable, or even wet.
Cold Comfort
Cryonicists seek better living through liquid nitrogen. But the government can't seem to keep its hands off the freezer door.
The Brainchild of Earnest Gentlemen
How liberalism went left
Wilder and Wilder
The Virginia governor's split personality might be just what voters want in a president.
Taxes and Death
A middle-class couple find themselves in an IRS-spun web of debt and despair.
Smoke and Mirrors
Antismoking activists say they're neither elitists nor paternalists. They're fooling themselves.
No Secrets
If you get arrested, you have the right to remain silent. But if you get sued, they have ways of making you talk.
What's Up to Doc?
From emergency surgery to addiction therapy, courts are letting "the experts," rather than parents, decide what treatment to give kids.
Strength in Diversity
How do you get kids to learn and parents to care? The success of black private schools underscores the need for choice.
The Children of Abraham
To claim Lincoln's legacy is to define our nation's soul. But the advocates of "equality" distort the meaning of his message.
Closing the Net
Will overzealous investigations of computer crime render freedom of the press technologically obsolete?
Trade War
Dick "The Retaliator" Gephardt vs. "Sir" Winston Churchill in a 10-round battle to the death over protectionism.
Pruning the Plan
When no-growth sentiment threatened to choke prosperity, Fort Collins, Colorado, replaced a home-grown hybrid.
Snow Job
Cocaine's hazards and addictive power have been greatly exaggerated.
Totaled!
Short-sighted interference has wrecked the car-insurance market. A repair guide.
Family Matters
Is Big Brother your next-of-kin?
The First Shall Be Last?
The ACLU fights for racial quotas, housing on demand, abortion rights, comparable worth…What happened to the First Amendment?
Perestroika in the Promised Land?
Socialism's Last Stand I: In Israel, the people belong to the state, but that may be changing.
Is the Kibbutz Kaput?
Socialism's Last Stand II: Israeli youth aren't too fond of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
Autonomy
The liberating benefits of a safer, cleaner, and more mobile society
Trapped Inside the Safety Belt
How political pressures, media hype, and special-interest lobbying drive auto regulators.
Going Mobile
On-road emissions tests promise a cheap and effective way to clean up auto pollution.
Electric Avenue
New technologies could allow roads to carry more traffic with less pollution
"It Sounds Like I Raped You"
How date-rape "education" fosters confusion, undermines personal responsibility, and trivializes sexual violence.
Dream Deferred
The Chinese democracy movement is thriving-outside the mainland
Liberation Zoology
Animal-rights activists won't be satisfied with preventing cruelty. That's why they're dangerous.
The Big Green Monster
California's latest environmental initiative promises to raise taxes, revitalize Tom Hayden's political career, and wreck the state's economy. So why isn't anyone opposing it?
Zoned Out
How an effort to protect the health and welfare of neighborhoods has become legally enforced segregation.
United States v. One Assortment of 89 Firearms
Drug warriors are using an obscure medieval legal doctrine to sweep aside property rights and due process.
The Green Road to Serfdom
At least the socialists claimed to like people.
Apocalypse Whenever
Who could ever forget the end of life on earth?
Don't Block the Exit
As the Supreme Court considers its first euthanasia case, the right-to-die movement faces a tougher challenge: getting people to contemplate their own deaths, and getting the politicians to let them.
Playing for Money
The opponents of gambling aren't putting all their cards on the table.
Control Yourself
The disturbing consequences of treating addiction as a disease-and every bad habit as an addiction.
Invasion of the Bottle Snatchers
How the neoprohibitionists got into your liquor cabinet
Untruth and Consequences
Porn prosecutors have a new book to throw at defendants.
Keep Your Cool
The greenhouse effect is real, but that's no reason to throw out industrial civilization.
Technology, Ecology, and the American Farmer
Scientific advances promise more bountiful harvests and a cleaner environment. But farm subsidies and technophobia could block the way.
