Television: Family Affairs
Fashions in family sitcoms swing between nasty and nice.
History
Education: Lobbying School
Mandatory community-service programs are turning schoolchildren into lobbyists.
Washington: Nyah, Nyah, So There
The Democrats are trying to dismiss critics of Clinton's health-care plan with a few sharp words and a wave of the hand.
Freedom Now I: From Dependency to Dignity
Blacks' self-help efforts could get a big boost from a reoriented civil rights movement, one that turned to demolishing the last of the Jim Crow laws.
'Remember the Ladies'
Constitution Series 1787-1987: The Constitution and the evolution of women's rights
America as Utopia
A city upon a hill, a human-divine paradise, a light unto the nations-the American Religion
REASON Interview: Eldridge Cleaver
He used to plot how to kill Ronald Reagan. Today he worries about how to get blacks off welfare and into the economy. The ex-Black Panther revolutionary talks to REASON.
"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?
Benito and Franklin
There were striking parallels between the economic programs of Mussolini and FDR. Were they coincidental?
Two Utilities Are Better Than One
In Lubbock, Texas, two electric utilities are competing for people's business. How does it work? Could competition be the answer to rising electric bills? answer to rising electric bills?
Another Side of Oscar Wilde
The world remembers him as a poet and playwright-but Oscar Wilde was also something of a libertarian reformer.
Shooting Down the Conspiracy Theory
The House Assassinations Committee and the Warren Commission are both wrong. There is no need to invoke a conspiracy to explain what happened in Dealey Plaza. A historian—and eyewitness—recreates the events of November 22, 1963.
