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Noah Berlatsky on Shady Chicago Police Practices
Chicago policing echos Abu Ghraib.
Ronald Bailey Defends Free Speech and the Right to Offend
A review of of The Tyranny of Silence by Flemming Rose
Kurt Loder Reviews Focus and Maps to the Stars
Will Smith outshone by Margot Robbie, David Cronenberg in Hollywood hell.
Steve Chapman: The Black Family in 1965 and Today
Poor black neighborhoods are not the unassisted creation of poor black people, but largely the malignant result of factors beyond their control.
Sheldon Richman on the Price of Empire
Islamic militants would not be wishing America harm if not for the violence the U.S. government has inflicted or helped to inflict on Muslim societies.
Andrew Napolitano on What the Government Fears Most
Hint: it starts with the letter "F"
Garry Kasparov: 'Real Innovation Is Not the iPhone 6, It's Apollo 6'
Nick Gillespie talks to Kasparov about chess, communism, technology, and Russia's "one-man dictatorship."
Greg Beato on the Quantified State
"Efficiency and uplift for all" as the new national mandate
Steve Chapman: Jeb Bush's Empty Indictment
Both brothers use muscular-sounding bromides that substitute for understanding.
Peter Suderman on Robots, Immigration, and Japan's Elder Care Conundrum
Robots may make it easier for Japan to grow old but, unlike immigrants, they won't make the country young again.
Sheldon Richman on the Economic Way of Thinking About Health Care
Obliviousness to economics lets people avoid thinking about the consequences of Obamacare.
Anthony Fisher on Improving Elder Care
Thanks to byzantine regulations, many nursing homes can resemble minimum security prisons.
Ken Silva: The Government's War on Freedom of the Press
Press freedom has declined in recent years.
Kurt Loder on The Oscars: Parsing a Year Filled with Good Movies
Predictions are basically pointless but, as always, irresistible.
Steve Chapman: Baseball and the Spirit of Innovation
If players are being outsmarted, the solution is for them to wise up, not the game to dumb down.
Sheldon Richman: Foreign Policy Failure Everywhere
Could it be that these failures may be successes to the custodians and profiteers of American empire?
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Shikha Dalmia on Reform Conservatism and the Triumph of Liberalism
New conservatives have given up on scaling back the welfare state
Steve Chapman: In Praise of Mediocrity
Where Brian Williams went wrong
