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
I was struck by British Defense Minister Liam Fox’s description of the new Medal of Honor video game set in Afghanistan. He called it “thoroughly un-British,” a phrase that presumably refers to something more than the game’s country of origin
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Why Is ‘Un-British’ Bad?
Only time will tell if Operation Iraqi Freedom was a blunder, writes Cathy Young. But it is not too early to say that Americans are not the villains in this story. As Young explains, that role belongs to the dictator who drove so many of his subjects to welcome a foreign invasion, and to the extremists who unleashed carnage on their own.
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New at Reason: Cathy Young on the Legacy of the Iraq War
How to make a libertarian’s head explode : a bank bailout… in Afghanistan .
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Reason Morning Links: Scanners Edition
“[T]he most striking thing when you start to look into the bullet train is how little planning or thought has gone into the thing,” a great man once said .
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SF Chron: Put a Bullet In This Train!
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 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
To the many similarities between New Jersey and California — the basic shape, the endured disapprobation of an uncomprehending country, the vibrant but little understood beach culture, the cowboy way — you can now add complete stupidity in managing public sector pensions. The Garden State has been using sleight of hand to avoid funding its largest public-worker pensions since the beginning of this century.
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Two States, One Cup
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
A few months back I interviewed filmmaker Martin Borgs who, along with Cato Institute scholar Johan Norberg, had just released the documentary film Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis . Based loosely on Norberg’s terrific book Financial Fiasco , the film features interviews with lots of clever people, including Nobelist Vernon Smith, the prescient financial commentator Peter Schiff, and Atlantic blogger Megan McArdle
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Overdose Online
