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
Via Washington Examiner columnist Mark Hemingway comes news that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who once denounced homosexual Cubans as “faggots” ( maricones ) who served the interests of imperialism, has “taken blame” for his revolution’s “excesses” against gay Cubans, which once included sending sexual counterrevolutionaries to prison camps. After offering a string of lame excuses—he was too busy thwarting American plots to stop sending his citizens to prison for being gay—Castro stopped short of actually apologizing. As Hemingway notes , Castro’s persecution of gays (and black Cubans) hardly stopped in the 1970s, as this Reuters stor y suggests, with gay bars routinely shut down by the state security service and organizers of a 2008 gay pride march thrown in jail
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A Caudillo’s Own Story
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
Matt Welch is on top of the Malthusian terror attack on the Discovery Channel. I did want to highlight that the instigator’s first demand cites the terrible Daniel Quinn novel Ishmael as a source of inspiration: 1
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Malthusian Hostage Taking Addendum
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
The Legal Times ’ Tony Mauro contrasts Canada and the U.S. when it comes to the issue of cameras in each nation’s highest court: U.S. Supreme Court justices still talk about television cameras as if they were deeply mysterious, brain-draining devices not to be approached with anything shorter than a 40-foot pole
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Cameras in the Courtroom, Canadian Edition
Two men arrested after Chicago-to-Amsteram flight on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack.
From our August-September issue, Senior Editor Jacob Sullum reports on the arrest of Daniel Tzvetkoff, co-founder of the online payment processor Intabill. As Sullum writes, Tzvetkoff’s crime was doing precisely what Intabill purported to do: facilitate online payments, including bets by American poker players. View this article.
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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on the Arrest of Online Gambling Entrepreneur Daniel Tzvetkoff
Senior Editor Tim Cavanaugh explains how IOUs, layoffs, late payments, and other bad news may save the Golden State. View this article.
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New at Reason: Tim Cavanaugh on California’s Gift of Shame
Now that you’ve wiped away yesterday’s tears and begun to accept that sales of overpriced U.S.
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Affordable Housing Is Not a Crime
