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• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/27/2012

OPINION LYLE DENNISTON: "How much privacy does the Constitution guarantee for the blood’s chemistry?" "It is clear, under the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/26/2012

OPINION MICHAEL F. CANNON & JONATHAN ADLER: "The IRS Has Gone Rogue" "A president who says “I haven’t raised taxes” has authorized…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/25/2012

OPINION ELIOT SPITZER: "We Must Defend Even the Ugliest Free Speech—Especially When There Are Riots" "Rarely has the value of free speech…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/24/2012

OPINION DANA GOLDSTEIN: "The Apprentice" "Volkswagen opened its first American plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., in 2010, and executives knew from the start…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/19/2012

OPINION ANDREW LEONARD: "Stop That Smartphone!" "The Romney 'secret' fundraising video reminds us all of a basic truth of the contemporary age:…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/18/2012

OPINION RAMESH PONNURU: "The Right Is Wrong to Pin Obama’s Edge on Welfare State" "The underlying idea is that the more people…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/17/2012

OPINION THE ECONOMIST: "The Tyranny of Choice" "Wheel a trolley down the aisle of any modern Western hypermarket, and the choice…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/13/2012

OPINION MATTHEW YGLESIAS: "For Immigrant Kids, Canada and Australia Are The Real Lands Of Opportunity" "The story of immigrant success—usually hard work…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/12/2012

OPINION MICHAEL LEWIS: "Obama's Way" "[Obama] doesn’t watch cable news, which he thinks is genuinely toxic. One of his aides told me…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/11/2012

OPINION GRACE-MARIE TURNER: "Why Barack's Silence on Obamacare?" "Democrats came on strong in celebrating what they also now call ObamaCare during speeches…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/07/2012

OPINION STEVEN GREENHUT: "Scandals Show California Is Broken, Not Broke" "It started in May 2011 when Governor Jerry Brown…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/06/2012

OPINION TONY DOKOUPIL: "The Original Drug Czar" "Dr. Peter Bourne is on a high these days. The self-described “first drug czar”—the first…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/05/2012

OPINION GENE HEALY: "Dinesh D'Souza Is the Right's Michael Moore" "I lost an hour and a half of my life Sunday at…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/04/2012

In Joseph Heller's 1961 novel Catch-22, Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder is a walking parody of a conscience-free capitalist. After he impulsively buys all the cotton in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 09/04/2012

OPINION JOHN H. COCHRANE: "CBO Demands a Leap of Faith on the Fiscal Cliff" "How does the CBO come up with these…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/31/2012

OPINION DONALD BOUDREAUX: "Inconceivable Complexity" "A market economy is indescribably vast and complex—its success depends on so many intricate, changing details all…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/24/2012

OPINION AMELIA HAMILTON: "Government Regulation Slowing Energy Jobs and Economic Growth" "With unemployment in the United States at 8.3%, job growth is…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/21/2012

OPINION SALLY PIPES: "Gov. Deval Patrick's New Health Law Is Flat-Out Dangerous" "Beacon Hill was the scene of great fanfare earlier this…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/17/2012

OPINION ROB COX and RICHARD BEALES: "Since When Does a Huge Hedge Fund Need Subsidies?" "Since when does a huge hedge fund…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/16/2012

Today in Slate, Aisha Harris explains why the cast of David Cronenberg’s new film Cosmopolis features only one American actor: Back in May, David…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/15/2012

OPINION LINDSAY ABRAMS: "Pot May Improve Cognitive Functioning in Bipolar Disorder" "At least one prior study has shown than cannabis might have…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/14/2012

OPINION SALON: "Helen Gurley Brown: A Life in Links" "In an undated video, [Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley] Brown talked to Small Business…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/13/2012

OPINION ADAM COHEN: "Is Your Car Being Tracked by a License Plate Scanner?" "If you drive through Maryland, the state may be…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/10/2012

OPINION ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER EDITORIAL: "Is California Getting Too Much CARB?" "Californians recently have been learning about $54 million that was unspent…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/08/2012

OPINION STEVE FORBES: "To Help Free Market, Bury the Hatchet" "We all want America’s economy to improve and realize that crony capitalism…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/07/2012

OPINION A. BARTON HINKLE: "Abortion Debate Skewers Political Pieties" "According to a sympathetic piece in The Washington Post, Codding has 'tried for months'…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/01/2012

OPINION JOHN MERONY: "A Conservation With Gore Vidal" "[Hillary Clinton] would have been a wonderful president. As for my support for Obama,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/30/2012

OPINION MATTHEW YGLESIAS: "How to Ban Chick-Fil-A From Your City" "I hope that friends of free speech will note that while the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/27/2012

OPINION CONOR FRIEDERSDORF: "The Problem With the NYPD's Interstate Spy Squad" "The fact that the September 11 attacks targeted New York City,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/26/2012

OPINION EMILY BAZELON: "The GOP's Self-Inflicted Wounds" "Pennsylvania’s voter ID law goes on trial today. The first thing…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/25/2012

OPINION ANDREW KENT: "Just Don't Ask For Money" "Last week, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights sued…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/24/2012

OPINION JEFF GREENE: "Robots, Trade and Your Job" "I'll never forget the retiree with a heavy accent who said, 'I worked in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/20/2012

OPINION AMITY SHLAES: "Let States Do the Tax-Collecting Dirty Work" "But the best ideas don’t spread spontaneously. That line from the …

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/18/2012

OPINION THE ECONOMIST: "Gas works: Shale Gas is Giving a Big Boost to America's Economy" "[S]hale contributes a third of America’s gas…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/17/2012

OPINION ROB COX: "Yahoo Tackles Existential Problem With Engineering" "[Yahoo] has hired Marissa Mayer, one of the few females to rise up…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/16/2012

OPINION MICHAEL HASTINGS: "Bright Lights, Big Secret" "It’s been exactly 372 days since Vargas revealed, in a New York Times Magazine cover…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/13/2012

OPINION DEREK THOMPSON: "The End of TV and the Death of the Cable Bundle" "Every year, 100 million homes pay for a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/12/2012

OPINION RANDY BARNETT: "Amend the Commerce Clause" "In last week’s decision upholding the constitutionality of most of the Affordable Care Act, the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/10/2012

OPINION DAN LYONS: "Apple’s Move to Spite Google and Use Its Own Map Software Hurts Customers" "Apple’s late CEO Steve…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/09/2012

True or False: In the United States, a couple who wants to have a baby must first go through expensive testing of the male partner's…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/06/2012

OPINION WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL: "Not Content With Winning, Obama Aides Rewrite Court's Ruling" "From the moment the Supreme Court rewrote Obamacare's individual…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/05/2012

OPINION DAVID THIER: "The Web for the Neighborhood" "In 2011, 'I Wish This Was' made the jump from the storefront to the…