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From our April issue, Anthony Randazzo explains why the White House’s claims that the economy is on the mend don’t add up.

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New at Reason: Anthony Randazzo on the Myth of the Recovery

A great post from Robert Wright at the New York Times about why the disproportionate attention paid to Toyota recalls is worrisome and innumerate: if you drive one of the Toyotas recalled for acceleration problems and don’t bother to comply with the recall, your chances of being involved in a fatal accident over the next two years because of the unfixed problem are a bit worse than one in a million—2.8 in a million, to be more exact. Meanwhile, your chances of being killed in a car accident during the next two years just by virtue of being an American are one in 5,244.

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You Might Die in Your Toyota. It Happens.

When men like Joe Stack and John Bedell launch their kamikaze attacks, you won’t learn much by trying to discern if the would-be killers are “right-wing” or “left-wing,” writes Managing Editor Jesse Walker. They have less in common with the organized right or left than they do with George Metesky’s one-man bombing campaign against Con Edison, Samuel Byck’s feckless attempt to assassinate Richard Nixon, or the Luddite crusade of the Unabomber.

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New at Reason: Jesse Walker on Lone Wolves

There seems to be growing optimism among some Republicans that if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finagles the votes to pass Obamacare, the GOP triumphantly will sweep into power and immediately repeal it.

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New at Reason: David Harsanyi on the GOP Repealing ObamaCare

From our April issue, Editor in Chief Matt Welch looks at President Barack Obama’s slippery relationship with the truth.

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New at Reason: Matt Welch on Obama’s Habit of Telling Untruths

New York Democrat Eric Massa, who announced last week that he will resign from the House, claims he’s being forced out by an administration hell-bent on passing a health care bill.

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In Which a Battlestar Galactica-Inspired Sexual Innuendo May or May Not Decide the Fate of Health Care Reform

We invented the federal Highway Trust Fund in 1956, promising motorists and truckers that all proceeds from a new federal gas tax would be spent on building the interstate system.

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New at Reason: Robert Poole on Highway Funding

Widely used in Europe, the Value-Added Tax (VAT) has always seemed a non-starter in the United States. That may be changing given apparently insurmountable structural deficits and fear that the financial collapse of Greece could happen here if revenue isn’t increased. These days, the VAT is being taken seriously even by pro-market conservatives and libertarians

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New at Reason: Veronique de Rugy on the Value-Added Tax

Here are some things you can’t do in most states of the union: rent your body to someone for sex, sell your kidney, take recreational drugs.

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New at Reason: John Stossel on Legalizing Drugs, Prostitution, and Organ Sales