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Articles in May, 2009 issue of Reason
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Obama's double-talk: while the president talks sobriety, his policies take America on an economic bender
by Matt Welch -
Bush's Midnight Regulations
by Susan Dudley -
Who's Your Daddy?
by Damian Adams -
Bongs Away!
by Brian DeMarzo - Corrections
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The indefinite future of indefinite detention: President Obama may close Guantanamo, but the policy it represents will continue
by Jacob Sullum -
Conservation theater: as green as an SUV tow truck
by Radley Balko -
Pennsylvania railroad: juvenile court corruption
by Jacob Sullum - 35 years ago in reason
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Bag check: Metro search and seizure
by Mike Riggs -
Connecticut vs. Cuba: communist cabs
by Katherine Mangu-Ward - Quotes
- Citizen empowerment
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The nose knows: thirdhand smoke alarm
by Jacob Sullum -
Hips abroad: medical outsourcing
by Ronald Bailey -
Overstimulating K-12: education spending
by Lisa Snell -
Storm ahead: financial crisis fact sheet
by Brian Doherty -
China's culture ministry says it will ban professional performers from miming, lip syncing, or pretending to play musical instruments
by Charles Oliver -
Jasbir Singh said he just wanted to show his support for the police when he placed a police union bumper sticker on his car
by Charles Oliver -
After 6-year-old Natalie Shea drew some pictures with chalk on the sidewalk in front of her Brooklyn home, the Department of Sanitation sent her parents a letter
by Charles Oliver -
Walter Andre Sharpe Jr. has been jailed four times since 2001, lost his job, and had more than $12,000 taken from him to support the child of a different Andre Sharpe with a different date of birth, address, and Social Security number
by Charles Oliver -
Florida's Tri-Rail commuter train service faces a budget deficit
by Charles Oliver -
Pennsylvania has banned smoking in private homes and vehicles used for child care services
by Charles Oliver -
To fight terrorism, the British government has proposed a national database of all cell phone owners
by Charles Oliver -
Martin Ryan starved to death over 26 days in a National Health Service hospital in England
by Charles Oliver -
Raegan Booth, 16, and Aby Western, 15, were sent home from Rednock School in England and told not to come back until they dyed their hair brown
by Charles Oliver -
Lone Star College threatened to place the Young Conservatives of Texas on probation after the group distributed a flier listing a tongue-in-cheek "Top Ten Gun Safety Tips."
by Charles Oliver -
Goodbye, Gitmo
by Radley Balko -
MySpace = safe space: predator panic debunked
by Katherine Mangu-Ward -
'Sexting' scare: cell phone follies
by Jacob Sullum -
The raw deal
by Damon W. Root -
I'm so bored with the NEA: artists demand "stimulus" subsidies
by Greg Beato -
When do deficits matter? While Democrats and Republicans switch sides, economists try to pin down a tipping point
by Veronique de Rugy -
Failed states: after a long spending binge, governors go begging for a handout. It won't be their last
by Michael Flynn -
Will we be stimulated? Economists sound off on Obama's stimulus package
by Nick Gillespie -
Blowing the whistle on the house of death: DEA dissenter Sandy Gonzalez reveals the drug war's complicity in torture and murder south of the border
by Radley Balko -
The politics of superheroes: want a map of the debates of the early 21st century? Watch a comic-book movie
by Jesse Walker -
The development dilemma: can parking tickets explain why poor countries are poor?
by Tim Harford -
Foie fight
by Katherine Mangu-Ward -
Power pestering
by Ronald Bailey -
Choosing our own future: will we greet new technologies with more regulation or more liberty?
by Gregory Benford -
Punk/metal rules!
by Damon W. Root -
Secret lives, fictional sex
by Nick Gillespie -
News that stays news
by Radley Balko -
Yesterday is tomorrow: revisiting Annie as a new New Deal dawns
by Brian Doherty -
Don't measure me, bro: why broadcasters fear accurate audience ratings
by Tim Cavanaugh -
Hating Milton Friedman
by Damon W. Root
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