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Articles in Dec 2005 issue of Reason
- Like starting over: price controls are new again
by Matt Welch - Saparmurat Niyazov, president of Turkmenistan, has banned lip synching, saying it has a negative effect on singing
by Charles Oliver - Bunker hill
by Jeff A. Taylor - No, this is the story of the hurricane: for too many pundits, left and right, Katrina was just another front in the culture war
by Cathy Young - 26 years ago in reason
- Single-Europe theory
by Jeff A. Taylor - Snoop ware
by Jeff A. Taylor - Be seeing E.U.: Europe eyes mobile records
by Julian Sanchez - The Crescent city and the fiscal black hole: how a phantom golf game made a ghost of fiscal responsibility
by Tim Cavanaugh - The prehistory of cyberspace: how BBSes paved the way for the Web
by Julian Sanchez - How Bush outspends LBJ
by Nick Gillespie - In 2004 the Manhattan radio station WQHT sponsored "smackfests" in which women slapped each other to win prizes
by Charles Oliver - Morbid rail
by Jeff A. Taylor - Escape from poverty
by Ronald Bailey - From Barry's boys to the Deaniacs: how alternative media have transformed politics on the left and the right
by Jesse Walker - Lacking Up Life-Saving Drugs
by Joe Haynes - Kelo KO
by Jeff A. Taylor - Big really easy
by Jeff A. Taylor - Catfish terror: thinly disguised protectionism
by Kerry Howley - A security camera caught at least six Richmond, California, police officers taking drinks from a closed Mrs. Fields Original Cookies store during a search for a burglar
by Charles Oliver - Tax simplification
by Jeff A. Taylor - Mitt fit
by Jeff A. Taylor - Dhalgren in New Orleans: a classic science fiction novel comes to life in the big easy
by Bidisha Banerjee - Correction
- Self-Medicating in Burma
by John H. Badgley - Cluster busters: fast food near schools
by Jacob Sullum - Dianne Erdmann rescued a duckling after it was attacked by a crow
by Charles Oliver - Cold logic
by Jeff A. Taylor - Intimate revelations
by Kerry Howley - Dinosaurs vs. Darwin
by Jesse Walker - Who Killed PayPal?
by Jon Sloan - Quotes
- Orhan Pamuk, one of Turkey's most respected novelists, faces up to three years in prison for "insulting" the national character
by Charles Oliver - Vioxx's runaway jury
by David R. Henderson - Under the Spell of Malthus
by Vic Arnold - An audit has found California can't account for about 30,000 of the 70,000 vehicles the state owns
by Charles Oliver - Flood convergence
by Jeff A. Taylor - Drinking problem
by Jeff A. Taylor - They shoot helicopters, don't they? How journalists spread rumors during Katrina
by Matt Welch - Let a thousand choices bloom: debating the future of education reform
- The crisis that wasn't: building a better garbage dump
by Jeff Taylor - Auto wash
by Jeff A. Taylor - Poppy flop: the drug war's high yields
by Jacob Sullum - The father of modern school reform: fifty years ago, Milton Friedman introduced the idea of school vouchers. Now he looks back on his legacy
by Nick Gillespie - It isn't illegal in Canada to wear a T-shirt that has a picture of a gun and says "Rule no. 1 be armed."
by Charles Oliver - Maura Ciardello left her dog locked in her SUV at night when she ran into a store to pick up groceries
by Charles Oliver - Amtrak sucks traveling Soviet-style aboard America's $30,000,000,000.00 Nostalgia Toy!
by P. Bagge