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Reason January 2005 Cathy Young	The Problem with Putin It will be a bitter historical irony if Putin's Russia becomes America's authoritarian pal in the War on Terror---and all the more ironic if its friendship is as unreliable as it is morally compromising.
Reason January 2005 Tim Cavanaugh	Iraq's Summer Soldiers When the invasion of Iraq was still in its notional phase, a coalition of liberal hawks joined the president in arguing for the war as a Progressive intervention. It is in the open-ended occupation that they lost their nerve.
Reason January 2005 Harvey Silverglate	Civil Liberties and Enemy Combatants Why the Supreme Court's widely praised rulings are bad for America.
Reason January 2005 Paul Sperry	Cut-Rate Diplomas How doubts about the government's own "Dr. Laura" exposed a resume fraud scandal. The American people need to know that the best-qualified workers are running the war on terrorism, not a bunch of hacks and cheats.
Reason January 2005 David Weigel	Trans-Atlantic Tripe Jeremy Rifkin's theory is that America is really staggering into obsolescence. His latest work, The European Dream, is his chronicle of the society that will overtake it.
Reason January 2005 Tom G. Palmer	John Locke Lite The strange philosophy of a "left libertarian". A book review of Libertarianism Without Inequality, by Michael Otsuka.
Reason January 2005 Jeff A. Taylor	Foul Ballpark Now THIS is a culture war: baseball vs. drag queens. One of the few groups concerned about a world-class fiscal error coming down the pike in Washington, D.C., is the city's gay community.
Reason January 2005 Jacob Sullum	Speed Tracers Under plans being considered in Indiana and Oregon to help curtail methamphetamine labs, consumers who want to purchase Sudafed or other remedies that contain pseudoephedrine would have to wait in line at the pharmacy counter, show ID, and sign a registry.
Reason January 2005 Brian Doherty	Homeschool Revolt Pennsylvania parents resist homeschooling regulation citing the Religious Freedom Protection Act..
Reason January 2005 Jacob Sullum	Medicinal Grass Despite marijuana's low toxicity and long history of medicinal use, federal law puts it in a highly restrictive category. After decades of unsuccessful attempts to correct this anomaly, medical marijuana activists are trying a less direct approach.
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