Behind the Cancer Terror
Why are Americans gripped by fear over the least trace of chemicals suspected of causing cancer? An excerpt from The Apocalyptics: Politics, Science, and the Big Cancer Lie.*
Features
Paper Crisis
We didn't really have an international debt crisis before, but Congress is doing its best to create one.
Battling the Budget Bulge—Gracefully
How can the federal budget be cut? Let us count the ways, says the Grace Commission.
Prohibition for the Younger Set?
Should the legal drinking age be 18 or 21? The debate goes on, but it ignores the fundamental issue.
An Education in Empire Building
How does a bureaucracy save itself from extinction? The Department of Education has a lesson plan.
Fighting the Soviet Imperialists: UNITA in Angola
"Out with the Cubans! Out with the Russians! Death to Marxism! Vive the independence of Angola!" A first-hand report on Angola's anti-Soviet guerrilla movement.
Does Doom Loom?
There's always been an abundance of resources. Is the party over?
Taking the Taxman to Task
A letter to a bureaucrat that we all might have wanted to write, one time or another.
American Capitalism at Sunset
Our elected representatives keep throwing monkey wrenches into America's engine of prosperity. An eminent economist proposes a radical fix.
The Self-Fulfilling Polity
If self-actualization is right for individuals, what is right for the state? An excerpt from a new book by the author of The Psychology of Self-Esteem
Wall Against War
Technology could be exploited to end the tragedy of war in the Middle East. A defense expert offers a radical new strategy for defending Israel's borders.
The Great Depression, So-Called
Could millions of businessmen have been "depressed" for 12 years?
Signal Victory for the First Amendment?
The latest broadcast technology promises to demolish the creaky rationale for TV and radio regulation.
Brewed Up Boycott
What the AFL-CIO doesn't tell you about Coors.
Taking Liberty
In spite of the Constitution, governments get away with taking property without just compensation. Only radical reform will protect citizens' rights.
The Little Island That Could
Guam could become a dynamic commercial center in the western Pacific-if Uncle Sam would get out of the way.
When the Rich Get Richer
An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of individuals
Tracking a Curious Fact
How US rails got their track together
Fighting Isolationism
What foreign policy is proper for a partly free society in an imperfect world?
Rolls Royces and Canned Carrots
True stories of the absurd consequences of government's meddling in business
Who Says Vouchers Wouldn't Work?
Vermont's been using them for years, but the debate goes on.
Buying Out of Social Security
Congress save Social Security? Don't bet on it. We need a different kind of solution.
Taking It on the Road
They've got their transportation deregulation act together in Arizona, but some carriers want to close down the show.
In Defense of the Corporate Coup
Why mergers make the market work better
Andropov's Orbiting Bombs
The Soviets' outer-space "peace" strategy
Hard Times for Hard Assets
Congress wants to cash in on collectibles-by taxing them at higher rates.
Forest Socialism
National forests are socialized forests, and corporate America wants to keep it that way.
They Built Their Own Highway…
and other tales of private land-use planning
Winds of Opportunity
Gusty profits are blowing in those bureaucratic breezes
How to Dismantle the Soviet Empire
"Disarmament or dismemberment"-it may be an offer the Soviet government can't refuse
Blazing Battles
Two New England towns tried to hire private fire-protection firms last year, and the ensuing political fights are still smoldering.
The Worst Prison System in America?
The Texas jails were notorious, but documentary film maker Eric Sherman decided to look at them from another angle.
Hanging Up on Your Phone Company
How technology is digging a grave for local phone monopolies.
The Wizards of Zilch
Today's magicians and soothsayers are on bureaucratic payrolls-and they have a language all their own.
You Can't Have Marx Without Stalin
On the centennial of Karl Marx's death, a philosopher disputes the claim that the Marxist tradition is humanistic.
God Save the Market!
Former Labour leaders one and all, Britain's "Gang of Four" are sparking a new promarket consensus.
"If 1,000 Men Were Not to Pay Their Tax Bills This Year…"
Thoreau's view on civil disobedience-exemplified by his tax resistance-influenced Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King. But who influenced Thoreau?
And Now, a Pitch for Advertising
Commercials got you down? Jingles driving you nuts? Try THIS new look at advertising for fast, effective relief!
Free the D.C. 2!
There's an easy solution to the federal government's mismanagement of its two commercial airports-sell them off!
America's Tragic Mistake
The welfare state was created just as the "need" for it was disappearing.
How to Get Out of the Food Stamp Trap
The food stamp program is one of the government's largest-and probably the most abused-welfare programs. But private efforts point the way out of this costly response to hunger.
The User Fee Illusion
Charging the users of government services instead of the taxpayers sounds like a great reform, but it masks the fundamental issues.
Freaked Out by Technology
A student of the '60s takes a new look at what moved the New Left.
Tyranny Takes the Gold
In the name of the Olympics, the state moved in like a storm trooper.
Inflammatory Rhetoric
Most of what you've probably heard about natural-gas control isn't true. And much of it probably came from a single source…
The Freedom Factor
What foments violence and war? What fosters peace? A political scientist tallies the evidence.
