Social Issues

Magazine articles on social issues such as crime, the environment, abortion, wealth distribution, drugs, etc.

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Reason January 2009 Brian Doherty	Baloney Ballistics Gun databases fail. Devoting so much record keeping to every gun sold guarantees wasted effort, since less than 1 percent of all guns sold will ever be used in a crime.
Reason January 2009 Radley Balko	Death by SWAT Collateral raid damage -- a surprisingly high percentage of raids produce neither drugs nor weapons.
Reason January 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Soap Scum The state of Washington has ordered local governments to ban driveway car washing. Most storm drains in the Pacific Northwest are separate from sewers and dump water directly into streams and rivers without processing.
Reason January 2009 Jacob Sullum	One Fish, Ten Fish Reviewing the track records of 11,135 fisheries over half a century, researchers conclude that privatization promotes sustainable fishing practices.
Reason January 2009 Ronald Bailey	Halo Health Fit, happy gamers
Reason January 2009	Anti-Government Superheroes In October Reason asked Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown to list three lessons about liberty to be gleaned from comics.
Reason January 2009 David Weigel	Kentucky Reign In 2007 Democrat Steve Beshear was elected governor of Kentucky after pledging to expand state-run gambling. Once in office, Beshear found that competition from online gambling was a huge obstacle.
Reason January 2009 Katherine Mangu-Ward	Slipped a Mickey One man's light pollution is another man's historic landmark.
National Defense February 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	Governors Attempt Interoperability Solution as Feds Falter Six states are being asked to design new projects to help first responders communicate with each other more effectively during disasters.
National Defense February 2009 Magnuson & Rusling	DHS Pilot Program to Focus on State Emergency Planning The Department of Homeland Security, along with U.S. Northern Command, is coordinating a new pilot program designed to make states devote more full-time personnel to drawing up emergency response plans.
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