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Junkyard Blight No More

LIKE OIL-SLICKED SEAGULLS and smokestacks spewing black fumes, piles of rusting cars were standard symbols of environmental blight in the 1960s and early ’70s. “Few of America’s eyesores are so unsightly as its millions of junked automobiles,” President Richard Nixon declared in a 1970 speech.

Throw Your Kid In The Scorpion Pit

“HE HAS A class on race and emotional safety,” an old friend of mine squealed with delight about her son’s public school schedule.

What Politicians Must Do When Protesters Attack

Learning from Robert McNamara’s mistakes and magnanimity.

Banned In Cannes

Perched on France’s southern coast, Cannes is famous for its luxurious beaches.

Guitar Globalization

Ex–Rage Against the Machine axman Tom Morello decides to Rock Against the TPP.

Hollywood Takes On Fan Fiction

A Star Trek lover’s new film is making the studios unhappy.

Free Brazil!

Meet the millennial libertarian activists who helped bring down a president.

Charlottesville And The Perils Of Collectivism

PETER CVJETANOVIC STANDS in a sea of tiki torches, his mouth wide open, teeth partially bared. You can almost hear the snarling scream from the photograph.

Government Created The Housing Crisis. Government Can Solve It.

Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney

Make School Hard Again

ON MARCH 12, news of a massive admission scandal broke in the world of higher education.

Meet The Teens Who Want To Get Vaccinated Against Their Parents' Wishes

What Happens When A Kid Raised By “all-natural” Parents Wants To Make A Different Choice?

When The Cops Come For You In The Target Parking Lot

A mom reflects on her experience parenting in the age of fear.

10 Colleges Where You Won't Have To Walk On Eggshells

These schools are seriously committed to civil and diverse debate.

Kamala Harris Is A Cop Who Wants To Be President

The California Senator and former prosecutor has a long record of Pushing Illiberal Policies.

Democracy In Decline?

If its recent record is any indication, Winston Churchill might have been wrong about democracy.

The Prohibition President

Politics

The Wall Won't End Pot Smuggling At The Border. Legalization Will.

Pot is bulky and pungent.

Netflix Bows To The Saudis

Even tech giants have to follow the law.

The IRS Targets Drug Policy Reformers

A recently adopted IRS rule for tax exempt organizations seems to violate the First Amendment by taking aim at groups that support drug policy reform.

Fentanyl Is Not A Nuke, And Drug Dealers Are Not Terrorists

Could fentanyl be a weapon of mass destruction?

Reason Once Tried To Predict The Future. How Did We Do?

IT WAS MAY 1993. Barely two years earlier, a failed coup attempt had marked the last gasp of Soviet Communism. The Cold War was over. Germany was reunified. The Baltic countries were independent. In the former Yugoslavia, Sarajevo was under siege.

The Next Big Fight Over Organized Labor May Already Be Here

JUNE’S SUPREME COURT ruling in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) freed public sector workers from being required to pay dues to unions to which

We Live In A World Of Reliable Miracles

When I’m having a bad day, I trawl the internet for videos of happy cyborgs.

Trump Just Can't Quit Afghanistan

IMAGINE BEING A U.S. citizen who believes that America should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after nearly 18 years of increasingly pointless war.

World South Africa Goes Halfway On Pot

JOHANNESBURG’S WORST-KEPT SECRET looks like any other suburban bar, with a bartender who has nothing unusual to offer.

Oh Deer

30 Million of Bambi’s Buddies Are on the Loose in the U.s., Causing Crop Damage and Car Accidents. Markets Can Help.

The Libertarian Party Future, Perennially Out Of Reach

Where does political libertarianism go after the midterms?

D.C. Vs. The Wide Open West

ONE OF THE great ironies of life in mountain and desert states is that many of the people you meet are either escapees or descendants of the East Coast—but they ended up in a place where Washington, D.C., has an enormous presence.

The New Socialists Didn't Win

But they’re still in charge for the next couple of years.

How We Childproofed Our Cities

Kid-friendly spaces make it harder to grow up.