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Reason October 2007 Brian Doherty	Safe Email 4 U! The Constitution applies online too.
Reason October 2007 Kerry Howley	Name Check In a 2006 report to Congress, immigration ombudsman Prakash Khatri found that name checks were "the most pervasive problem" in addressing long-delayed green card and naturalization applications.
Reason October 2007 Jacob Sullum	Nosy Neighbors Thanks to a $3 million grant from the U.S. government, Mexican officials are expanding their ability to monitor email messages and telephone calls. Among other things, the new Communications Intercept System will allow the government to keep track of cell phone users as they move around.
Reason October 2007 Jacob Sullum	Kick 'Em While They're Down A new report from the Institute for Justice looked at 184 areas where the use of eminent domain was approved for private economic development projects. On average, the residents were poorer, less educated, less likely to own property, and more likely to be racial minorities.
Reason October 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Filming for Freedom The Moving Picture Institute is the AV department for the vast libertarian conspiracy. It funds films celebrating liberty, it trains young filmmakers, and it helps them make connections in the mainstream. Here's an interview with the executive director.
Reason October 2007 David Weigel	Tuning Out the World In the U.S., protectionism takes root in both parties.
Reason October 2007 Greg Beato	Bleeding into the Mainstream How John McCain popularized human cockfighting.
Reason October 2007 Jonathan Rauch	Flying Blind in a Red-Tape Blizzard How George W. Bush became the regulator in chief.
Reason October 2007 Gene Healy	Rant: Learning to Love the Imperial Presidency How conservatives made peace with executive power.
Reason October 2007 Bryan Caplan	The 4 Boneheaded Biases of Stupid Voters American economists have a love-hate relationship with systematic bias. Out of all the complaints that economists lodge against laymen, four families of beliefs stand out: the anti-market bias, the anti-foreign bias, the make-work bias, and the pessimistic bias.
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