From Yuck to Yippee
The public learns to love a once controversial technology-again.
As cities and states boost their debts by 800 percent, a housing-like crisis looms.
Why has the USDA been plumping up the food stamps program like a factory chicken?
Why prosecute a terrorism suspect if life imprisonment is the only possible outcome?
Does copyright protection prevent creators from making stuff and selling it?
Unbelievably, the administration and its allies keep insisting that a failed policy was a success.
The movie
How I learned to stop worrying and embrace the equal protection argument for gay marriage
More FDA regulations don't always mean greater food safety.
Indiana's law barring police departments from enriching themselves through asset forfeiture would be more effective if it weren't ignored.
When the government tries to help small businesses, it hurts businesses (and taxpayers) of all sizes.
Collection agencies use the criminal justice system to pocket credit card debts.
Animated recreations may be the next big thing for the news biz.
Senate hearings on Supreme Court nominees keep the public as ignorant as possible.
Government workers get more powerful as they grow less popular.
Why left-wing economists' warnings against austerity programs are wrong
Local biodiversity is increasing because of man, not despite him.
Blame the government.
Forget peak oil. What about peak lithium, peak neodymium, and peak phosphorous?
A violent police raid posted on YouTube sparks outrage-but the only thing unusual was that it was caught on video.
How has California's high-speed rail project survived for 14 years without a plan, a budget, or a single accomplishment?
Citizens of the Golden State get nervous about carbon rationing plans made in flusher times.
Law enforcement agencies in Northern Virginia say you have no right to know what they're doing.
John Paul Stevens' spotty record as a defender of individual rights
"Behavior placement" in television programming is neither new nor alarming.
Reductions in military spending are both necessary and possible.
Americans have always loved college and real estate. So why do these assets need government support?