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Russia's Global Anti- Libertarian Crusade
How Vladimir Putin’s desire for domination and acceptance is scrambling American politics
India At A Crossroads
India is known as the land of contradictions, and recent events do little to undermine that reputation.
Your Money Or Your Life
The immorality of insurance
Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.)
VIDEO GAMES, LIKE work, are basically a series of quests comprised of mundane and repetitive tasks: Receive an assignment, travel to a location, overcome some obstacles, perform some sort of search, pick up an item, and then deliver it in exchange for a reward—and, usually, another quest, which starts the cycle all over again. You are not playing the game so much as following its orders. The game is your boss; to succeed, you have to do what it says.
We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier
Thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission.
Your Flight Is Delayed
THE FRENZIED BATTLE TO REFORM AMERICAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL
Marie Kondo Understands What Tucker Carlson And Bernie Sanders Do Not
Marie Kondo understands what Tucker Carlson and Bernie Sanders do not.
Whiplash And Backlash In The Republic Of Cuba
Starvation Won’t Turn Cubans Into Capitalists. Trade And Tourism Might.
How Washington Lost The War On Muscle
Steroid Users Hustle To Stay One Rep Ahead Of The Law.
Christians Started the Wedding Wars
Defenders of traditional marriage used the law to persecute polygamists. Now they’re the ones under attack.
America's Biggest Rental Car Company Is Lobbying to Drive Away Competitors
The first time New Hampshire State Rep. Sherman Packard (R–Rockingham) heard of the car-sharing startup Turo, it was from a lobbyist.
Blockchain Is Changing Lives In Africa
Startups from Cape Town to Nairobi think the budding technology is the future of the continent.
Don't Blame Karl Marx For ‘Cultural Marxism'
Political correctness isnt acommunist plot.
Starve The Tax Man
Americans are increasingly reluctant to pay the IRS. Who can blame them?
Would We Have Been Better Off With Perot?
An alternative history of America after 1992
Why The Wall Won't Work
The Legal, Practical, Economic, and Moral Case Against Trump’s Border Barrier
Go Ahead, Put Salt On Your Food
Ignore the feds’ bad advice on diet and nutrition.
Cops Who Claim They Know When Drivers Are Stoned
Even when blood tests say they’re not
Authoritarians To The Left And Right
Authoritarians To The Left And Right
Don't Panic Over North Korea
Don't Panic Over North Korea
Drug Smugglers Have Already Beaten Trump's Wall
DURING A SPEECH announcing his intention to seek the presidency, Donald Trump stumbled on what would become a signature issue for his campaign: Mexico.
What America Taught A Murderous Drug Warrior
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte follows prohibitionist logic to its lethal conclusion.
Deportations Up Under Trump
A round-up of immigrant round-ups
Jane Jacobs, In Her Own Words
The death and life of a great American urbanist
Toward A Unified Theory Of Stalin, The Teamsters, Alcoholics Anonymous, And Facebook
Toward A Unified Theory Of Stalin, The Teamsters, Alcoholics Anonymous, And Facebook
Under The Stars And Under The Radar
A handy guide to camping on forbidden turf
God And Man At The FBI
Dissident and off beat religious groups have faced more than a century of surveillance.
You're Not Going To Die In A Plane Crash
That has nothing to do with who is president.
The Applied Theory Of Bossing People Around
Richard Thaler’s prize isn’t noble.
Why It's So Hard To Get Pervs Out Of Politics
POLITICS IS A high-stakes, winner-takes all game with irresistible appeal to a certain kind of low-quality human being. There are typically only two viable candidates in any national race, and voters have a lot invested in the idea that bad things will happen if their guy loses.