Reporting from Massachusetts, Senior Editor Michael C. Moynihan profiles Republican congressional candidate Sam Meas, a refugee from the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge and the self-professed “new face of the Republican party.” View this article
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New at Reason: Michael C. Moynihan on Cambodian Refugee and Self-Described Reagan Republican Sam Meas
Few essays attracted as much attention from right-wing readers this summer as “America’s Ruling Class—and the Perils of Revolution” by Angelo Codevilla. Now that very long article has been expanded into a very brief book, called The Ruling Class
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New at Reason: Jesse Walker on The Ruling Class
The Washington Post describes how social media have become “regular parts of the news ecology, serving as an early alert system”: The news of a gunman at the Discovery Channel’s headquarters in Silver Spring indeed traveled fast on Wednesday, but none of it came through radio, TV or newspaper Web sites, at least not at first. As it has with other breaking news events — the landing of a jet on the Hudson River in 2009, the 2008 massacre in Mumbai — the story unfolded first in hiccupping fits and starts on Twitter, the much-hyped micro-blogging service that has turned millions of people into worldwide gossips, opinion-mongers and amateur news reporters
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Scooped by Twitter
The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities, requiring businesses to provide the disabled “equal access” and to make “reasonable accommodation” for employees.
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New at Reason: John Stossel on the Americans With Disabilities Act
If it were a crime to venture onto Capitol Hill to reveal yourself as a self-absorbed liar with an inability to admit mistakes, writes Steve Chapman, there would be tumbleweeds blowing through the vacant halls of Congress. Fortunately for members of the legislative branch, that is not a crime. Unless your name is Roger Clemens.
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New at Reason: Steve Chapman on the Pointless Prosecution of Roger Clemens
The L os Angeles Times released performance data on 6,000 district teachers on Sunday, and it caused quite a stir. Liberating teacher performance data is a great way to start out the school year—but it’s not enough, writes Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward
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New at Reason: Katherine Mangu-Ward on Liberating Education Information
My column this week was about the continuing secrecy of Virginia’s largest police departments and the way the state’s law enforcement community is opposing efforts to make the departments even marginally more transparent. The journalist sounding the alarm about all of this is Michael Pope, who writes for Northern Virginia’s Connection Newspapers, and contributes to D.C
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Concern About Police Secrecy = “Tilting at Windmills”?
Can nation building work in Iraq?
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New at Reason: David Harsanyi on Nation Building in Iraq
Just in time for the Labor Day holiday, gasoline prices are falling. Two years ago, gas prices peaked at over $4 per gallon, more than quadrupling from just 88.5 cents per gallon back in 1999. So what the hell is going on
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New at Reason: Ronald Bailey Delves into the Deep Mysteries of Gas Prices
Writing in the Wall Street Journal , Michael Moynihan talks to Massachusetts congressional candidate, Killing Fields survivor, and professed “Reagan Republican” Sam Meas: Sam Meas isn’t your typical congressional candidate. For one thing, the Cambodian refugee doesn’t know his birthday. ”I tell people I am 38 years old— plus or minus two years.” In 1973, Mr. Meas’s father was sent to be “re-educated” by the Khmer Rouge and was never heard from again.
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Reason Writers Around Town: Michael C. Moynihan on Massachusetts’ Cambodian Tea Party Candidate
