Articles from Reason (January 1, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
25 years ago in reason.		Brief article	168
A security guard at Seagoville High School in Dallas, Texas, ordered a student to take off her rosary.	Oliver, Charles	Photograph	29
Anatomy of a breakdown: concerted government policy helped trigger the financial meltdown--and will almost certainly extend it.	Flynn, Mike		3840
Anti-government superheroes.		Brief article	247
Baloney Ballistics: gun databases fail.	Doherty, Brian		341
Beat the new boss: D.C. libertarians plot their Obama administration strategies.	Weigel, David	Column	1321
Better than a bailout: four steps policy makers could take to help financial markets.	Lacoude, Philippe; de Rugy, Veronique		566
Blind rage: angry Korean masseuses.	Riggs, Mike	Brief article	254
Burn the "Speculators"!	Heimlich, John	Letter to the editor	218
Bush's regulatory kiss-off: Obama's assertions to the contrary, the 43rd president was the biggest regulator since Nixon.	de Rugy, Veronique	Column	1140
Chicago rules: it's good to be the alderman.	Balko, Radley	Brief article	151
Dave Alsop parked his car in a lot near Torquy Harbor in England at 2:49 p.m.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	112
Death by SWAT: collateral raid damage.	Balko, Radley		402
Death to Mickey: rated F for fatwa.	Sullum, Jacob	Brief article	294
Digital spelunking: data mining failure.	Mangu-Ward, Katherine	Brief article	248
Economics actually.	Moynihan, Michael C.	Interview	674
Friendly invasion: end species discrimination!	Bailey, Ronald	Brief article	250
Halo Health: fit, happy gamers.	Bailey, Ronald	Brief article	232
Houses of pain: when did declining home prices become politically intolerable?	Cavanaugh, Tim		3402
In California's Dos Palos High School, an assistant principal forced Jake Shelly to take off his shirt and wear a T-shirt proclaiming him a dress code violator.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	53
Is deregulation to blame? The new Washington consensus says "yes." The facts on the ground say something different.	Mangu-Ward, Katherine		1715
Jack Anderson may be just 6, but he's been on the federal government's no-fly list for years.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	91
Kentucky Reign: state-owned gambling domains.	Weigel, David	Brief article	203
Lessons from the great inflation: Paul Volcker and Ronald Reagan's forgotten miracle created a quarter century of prosperity--and a dangerous bubble of complacency.	Samuelson, Robert J.		3471
Obama's job fetish: why the government shouldn't view "creating jobs" as an end in itself.	Sullum, Jacob	Column	664
Obama's numbers: the president-elect has promised to make his math add up. Therein lies a glimmer of possibility.	Welch, Matt		1311
One fish, ten fish: fishery privatization.	Sullum, Jacob	Brief article	188
Pixar's stories: an animation company's inspirational rise from Nowheresville to infinity, and beyond.	Doherty, Brian		929
Quotes.			152
Sarbanes-Oxley revisited.	Doherty, Brian		402
Slipped a Mickey? One man's light pollution is another man's historic landmark.	Mangu-Ward, Katherine		776
Soap scum: banning driveway carwashes.	Mangu-Ward, Katherine	Brief article	225
State law may prohibit some Texans who own beachfront property from rebuilding on it in the wake of Hurricane Ike.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	66
Thank you, your honor, may I have another? The stubbornly seductive perils of justice porn.	Beato, Greg	Column	1263
The end is near: why does the land of plenty love dystopias?	Cavanaugh, Tim		1188
The fed's binge: how the Federal Reserve engineered the most dramatic peacetime experiment in monetary and fiscal stimulus in U.S. history without anyone noticing.	Hummel, Jeffrey Rogers		900
The God that flails: Bernard-Henri Levy takes on the rudderless European left.	Moynihan, Michael C.	Book review	1874
The poet Friedrich Schiller has been dead for more than 200 years.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	57
The real community organizer: Craig Newmark on Craigslist, libertarianism, online democracy, and nerd values.	Mangu-Ward, Katherine	Interview	2205
The trouble with Thomas Jefferson: the eloquent founder's original sin.	Root, Damon W.	Book review	1688
Transparency in action.	Balko, Radley		396
What Part of Legal Immigration Don't You Understand?	Mitchell, Bob	Letter to the editor	303
When Brazil's Environment Ministry set out to document the 100 biggest illegal loggers, it found the biggest offender was the government itself.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	42
When police in South Charleston, West Virginia, pulled over Jose Cruz for driving under the influence and driving with no headlights, he passed gas and waved his hand, directing the smell toward the officer.	Oliver, Charles	Brief article	52
Who killed real ID?	Cowan, Emily	Letter to the editor	101
Zoning toward oblivion.	Weiser, Jay; Root, Damon	Letter to the editor	568