United States

Magazine articles on politics and society in the United States.

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Reason July 2004 Julian Sanchez	Cheating Heart A book review of The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead: does capitalism teach people to break the rules?.
Reason July 2004 Charles Paul Freund	Flag-Draped Memories The strange American history of war death imagery.
Reason July 2004 Charles Paul Freund	Artifact: When Ads Campaign The mayor of New York City and the most prominent Puritan since Cotton Mather, is the unseen villain in a remarkable TV ad campaign for Rheingold Beer.
Reason July 2004 Jesse Walker	Corporate Soldiers Employees of private security companies in Iraq had been losing their lives, particularly after the spring insurgency began, and the firms found they couldn't rely on the armed forces for protection. So businesses are contracting with each other for military and intelligence support.
Reason July 2004 Brian Doherty	Pumping Up Harried motorists across the nation, especially California, have been wondering all spring: Why are gasoline prices so high?
Reason July 2004 Matt Welch	Outlaw Editors The day after April Fool's Day, the Treasury Department asserted with a straight face the government's right to criminalize the heretofore First Amendment-protected act of editing an article or book.
Reason July 2004 Jacob Sullum	Miracle in Helena Where's the factual correlation between smoking bans and heart attacks in the small study in Helena, Montana?
Reason July 2004 Julian Sanchez	Regulating Radios Consumer groups and consumer electronics companies are already up in arms over federal "broadcast flag" regulations.
Reason July 2004 Jesse Walker	Lies and Medicare The deeper scandal here isn't the American government's production of propaganda. It's the media's willingness to distribute it.
Reason July 2004 Julian Sanchez	Flat-Tax Perspective Without reform, the relative tax burden borne by the American middle class could soon get heavier still thanks to the Alternative Minimum Tax.
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