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National Defense February 2009 Stew Magnuson	Soldiers At Lowest Ranks Need Better Cultural Training, Officers Say Trainees must make tough life-or-death decisions, such as what to do when they burst through a door and find a family inside. Are these innocent civilians or insurgents? Should they pull the trigger?
Reason January 2009 Jacob Sullum	Death to Mickey Rated F for fatwa -- appearing on Al-Majd TV in August, Sheikh Muhammad Munajid deplored the influence of cartoon mice such as Mickey and Jerry, who encourage children to believe the filthy vermin are benign and lovable.
Reason January 2009 Tim Cavanaugh	The End Is Near Why does the land of plenty love dystopias? The late Frank Zappa's rock opera Joe's Garage now rises to that rare stratosphere of works applauded for their prescience when the future itself arrives.
The Motley Fool January 5, 2009 Tim Beyers	Facebook: Better Than a Christmas Card? For the second consecutive year, Facebook produced a new high for traffic during the holidays. The implication? Facebookers were online to offer and receive holiday greetings.
ifeminists January 4, 2009 Martin Green	A defense of pornography Pornography is an anathema in polite society, while hundreds of millions use it in private. This is 'cognitive dissonance' on a huge scale -- saying one thing and doing another.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2008 Tim Beyers	Tune Into the Twitter Rebellion Welcome to the new world of microreporting. In less than two weeks, Twitter has evolved from a digital water cooler into a semi-legitimate source of news that briefly trumped Big Media.
Fast Company December 2008 Anya Kamenetz	The Perils and Promise of the Reputation Economy It's not easy doing business in the reputation economy.
Reason December 2008 Robert Poole	Groovier and Groovier The founder of the Reason Foundation, Robert W. Poole Jr. tells the three ways the world has become better in the past twenty years.
Reason December 2008 Jacob Sullum	College Dry More than 100 university presidents and chancellors called for "an informed and dispassionate public debate" about lowering the drinking age.
Reason December 2008 Katherine Mangu-Ward	The Halfway Mark In 1988, in its 20th anniversary issue, reason reminded readers how much better things were than in 1968, and predicted how they might be in 2008.
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