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• Obama's ambitious domestic agenda is at fork in the road 

  Barely six months into his presidency, Barack Obama seems to be driving south into that political speed trap known as Carter Country: a sad-sack...

  Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 07/26/09 by Matt Welch · More from publication

• Why Long Beach isn't Detroit: how Southern California survived the collapse of aircraft manufacturing without a bailout 

  IT COMES UP IN every argument about Washington bailing out Detroit: Don't you heartless market fundamentalists realize what would happen to the...

  Reason, 07/01/09 by Matt Welch · More from publication

• Obama loses his "cool"; with his glib dismissal of pot legalization, the president looks less like the man, and more like The Man 

  WHEN THE GENERATION of Americans under the age of 30 gets around to realizing that this handsome young president might not be nearly as cool as...

  Reason, 06/01/09 by Matt Welch · More from publication

• Hiking in Hoboken: revolting property taxes 

  HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, is not exactly known for its good governance. Steve Cappiello, mayor from 1973 to 1985, was arrested for drunk driving in 2007...

  Reason, 06/01/09 by Matt Welch · More from publication

• Obama's double-talk: while the president talks sobriety, his policies take America on an economic bender 

  HIGH-FLYING presidencies tend to reveal their base character in trivial moments. In March 2002, when the nation was still massively behind George...

  Reason, 05/01/09 by Matt Welch · More from publication

• The liberaltarian Jackalope: the liberal-libertarian rapprochement is probably dead on arrival 

  IN LATE, JANUARY, for the third time since Barack Obama's historic election, a group of Washington, D.C., writers and think tankers, roughly half...

  Reason, 04/01/09 by Matt Welch · More from publication

• Subprime nation: Uncle Sam's mortgage 

  IN JANUARY the financial website creditloan.com asked, "What would happen if Uncle Sam applied for a loan at his local bank?" What sort of deal...

  Reason, 04/01/09 by Matt Welch · More from publication

• Your money or your democracy: it's the most privileged industries that demand protection 

  "WE'RE MORE worthy of a bailout than the jokers on Wall Street," Jason Whitlock wrote in The Kansas City Star just before the annus bailoutus of...

  Reason, 03/01/09 by Matt Welch · More from publication

• Who's harassed now? Sexual politics in California 

  IN 2003, ON the eve of his historic election as California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger was hit with a multipart series in the Los Angeles...

  Reason, 03/01/09 by Matt Welch · More from publication

• Schwarzenegger's failure: if the California governor is the face of "moderate" Republicanism, the party is even more doomed than the 2008 elections suggest 

  YOU CAN'T REALLY argue with Arnold Schwarzenegger's political success. In 2002 the California Republican Party, still suffering from the...

  Reason, 02/01/09 by Matt Welch · More from publication