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Reason July 2007 Radley Balko	Illegal Medicine A new study concludes that there are many legitimate issues surrounding the provision of health care to the nonelderly foreign-born, but high taxpayer burden is not one of them.
Reason July 2007 Brian Doherty	Political Payoff While there are no solid data proving that campaign contributions directly change politicians' behavior, a new study offers evidence that political giving helps corporations.
Reason July 2007 David Weigel	Foster Follies The cost of anti-gay discrimination: A study shoes if gay couples were expelled from the foster and adoptive care systems nationwide, 9,300 to 14,000 children would be displaced. The cost of putting all of them back into the foster system: about $130 million.
Reason July 2007 Jacob Sullum	Principals of Censorship Student speech and the drug war: When the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of a school's heavy-handed censorship, it seemed a majority might obligingly carve out a "drug exception" to the First Amendment.
Reason July 2007 Jeff Taylor	Little Criminals Locking up bad kids with bad adults has long been recognized as counterproductive. Yet a recent report from the Justice Policy Institute reveals that many states simply do not have enough juvenile detention slots for young offenders, even those who commit nonviolent crimes.
Reason July 2007 Radley Balko	Pirates of the Caribbean A three-judge panel found that the recently enacted Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act runs afoul of global trade agreements.
Reason July 2007 David Weigel	Hawks and Hogs Why no one dares attack the waste in U.S. defense spending.
Reason July 2007 Brink Lindsey	The Aquarians and the Evangelicals How left-wing hippies and right-wing fundamentalists created a libertarian America.
Reason July 2007 David Weigel	The Minority Leader Is Sen. Tom Coburn an extreme social conservative, a libertarian hero, or both?
BusinessWeek August 6, 2007 Reed, Sasseen & Pirouz	Iran: The Buck Stops Here The U.S. is blocking dollar transactions to isolate Tehran.
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