The First Shall Be Last?
The ACLU fights for racial quotas, housing on demand, abortion rights, comparable worth…What happened to the First Amendment?
Features
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.
A Hazardous Waste
What else can you call environmental regulations that prevent recycling, discourage cleanups, and stifle improvements in waste treatment?
The Door Slams Shut
Why we can't trust the INS with U.S. refugee policy.
Bitter Harvest
Farmers pay a high price for government subsidies
What's Wrong with Latin American Economies?
Elections without democracy, regulations without law, a private sector without capitalism
The China Syndrome
Ten years of U.S. ambivalence left the door open for the Tiananmen Square tragedy. It is time to adopt a policy of principle.
Plowing Under Subsidies
A growing number of farmers believe that an intrusive, expensive farm policy is the last thing they need.
The Growth Brokers
How slow growth came to southern California…and who pays and who profits?
The Wizard of Watts
A private school in the ghetto teaches karate, French, and Shakespeare.
City of Dreams
Los Angeles is a model city-for better or worse
Miracle by Default
Why the City of Angels works
Vans Across America
SuperShuttle proves public transit isn't the only way to move the masses.
Pretty Shady Bunch
TreePeople finds a private solution to air pollution.
Haunted Housing
The ghosts of regulations past lurk in the shortages of the present.
You Can't Get There from Here
19th-century transit plans won't solve 21st century traffic problems.
The Seduction of Planning
Our cities suffer from the belief that only governments can plan grandly and only grand plans work.
Quiet Revolution
South Africa's blacks are realizing their economic power. Can apartheid survive?
Why Did We Go to the Moon?
Apollo's lasting legacy, reexamined
Letting Go the Tiger's Tail
Reforming the Soviet economy is nearly impossible, but there is a way.
Consumers on Hold
The future could be today if the Baby Bells were allowed to grow up
Who's Behind the Child Care Crisis?
Slowly but surely, politicians and regulators are destroying the many child care options that do exist.
