Tobacco
The Goose With the Golden Egg Is Being Led to Slaughter
Innovation and creativity have put the software maker on top. Now bureaucrats and lawyers want to cash in.
Reasonable Doubts: Their Own Petard
Fans of activist litigation discover the other guy can sue too.
Same as the Old Boss?
California's term limits are under a legal cloud in the federal courts. But what, if anything, has Prop. 140 changed in Sacramento?
Public Health As an Alternative to the War on Drugs
Delivered at the Drug Policy Foundation's 11th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, October 17, 1997.
Dealers' Choices
The tobacco companies have renounced the principles that made it possible to defend them.
Wild Success
Saving endangered wildlife once meant trampled crops and violent death to the villagers of Southern Africa. Now community-based capitalism is turning once-fearsome pests into valuable sources of wealth.
Let's Make a Deal
As the proposed tobacco settlement heads to Congress, the anti-smoking movement is divided over whether it's a good deal after all. A guide to the players, the alliances they've established, and who hopes to get what.
Polluted Science
New air pollution regulations based on questionable science and creative economic analysis could cost billions and change the way Americans mow their lawns, heat their homes, clean their clothes, and barbecue their burgers. Can Congress stop this regulatory power grab?
Youth Appeal
Self-appointed Web watchers are worried that virtual smoking and drinking might lead to the real thing.
