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Title	Type	Date	Words
The unknown war: the defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don't we talk about it more?	Cover story	Nov 1, 2009	1315
'The last gasp of the dinosaurs': publisher and flat-tax Republican Steve Forbes on 1930s-style economic policies, the news industry, and the future of the GOP.	Interview	Nov 1, 2009	3226
Commie art.		Nov 1, 2009	156
The politics of memory: what's too painful to remember we simply choose to repeat.		Oct 1, 2009	1262
California screaming: the Golden State's political class comes unglued in the face of a citizens' revolt.		Aug 1, 2009	1270
Why Long Beach isn't Detroit: how Southern California survived the collapse of aircraft manufacturing without a bailout.		Jul 1, 2009	1305
Obama loses his "cool"; with his glib dismissal of pot legalization, the president looks less like the man, and more like The Man.		Jun 1, 2009	1296
Hiking in Hoboken: revolting property taxes.		Jun 1, 2009	371
Obama's double-talk: while the president talks sobriety, his policies take America on an economic bender.		May 1, 2009	1298
The liberaltarian Jackalope: the liberal-libertarian rapprochement is probably dead on arrival.		Apr 1, 2009	1328
Subprime nation: Uncle Sam's mortgage.	Brief article	Apr 1, 2009	190
Your money or your democracy: it's the most privileged industries that demand protection.		Mar 1, 2009	1306
Who's harassed now? Sexual politics in California.		Mar 1, 2009	332
Schwarzenegger's failure: if the California governor is the face of "moderate" Republicanism, the party is even more doomed than the 2008 elections suggest.		Feb 1, 2009	1300
Obama's numbers: the president-elect has promised to make his math add up. Therein lies a glimmer of possibility.		Jan 1, 2009	1311
Back to the barricades: free markets are under attack again.		Dec 1, 2008	1282
Scared straight: notes from our nation's awful political spectacles.		Nov 1, 2008	1277
The dangerous failure of McCain-Feingold.	Interview	Nov 1, 2008	659
Illegal editor: immigration restrictions hurt legal residents.		Oct 1, 2008	1297
The uses of hyperbole: exaggerated doomsday forecasts are false, regrettable, inevitable, and possibly necessary.		Aug 1, 2008	1274
The golden collapse: believe it or not, there once was a market crash where participants paid the consequences.		Jul 1, 2008	1296
City of rats: "thinking big" at the municipal level means abandoning the basics.		Jun 1, 2008	1336
When coalitions dissolve: as the GOP breaks apart, some blame the vanishing breed of free market Republicans.		May 1, 2008	1265
Can you hear the people sing?	Interview	May 1, 2008	660
Ron Paul's mistake: why a message of freedom works better than whipping up white resentment.		Apr 1, 2008	1341
Burn the rich: is it "apartheid" to pay for extra fire protection?	Brief article	Jan 1, 2008	652
McCain: no surrender! For John McCain, critical inquiry stops at the water's edge.		Dec 1, 2007	1091
Be afraid of President McCain: the frightening mind of an authoritarian maverick.	Cover story	Apr 1, 2007	4474
Old Propaganda and New.	Letter to the editor	Jun 1, 2006	667
Military intelligence: the Pentagon spies on activists.		Apr 1, 2006	349
Farewell to warblogging: I used to think blogs would transform ideologues into nonpartisan truth-seekers. Man, was I wrong.		Apr 1, 2006	1291
Terror in Nebraska: PATRIOT Act abuses.	Brief Article	Mar 1, 2006	173
Ghost of Tonkin: cover-up covered up.		Mar 1, 2006	366
Old propaganda and new: Bush is wrong to use the Cold War's covert tactics in the new twilight struggle.		Mar 1, 2006	1328
Fruit use: eminent domain in New Orleans.		Feb 1, 2006	389
The war on sedition: "Anglosphere" allies crack down on speech in the name of fighting terror.		Feb 1, 2006	1274
Sorry, wrong number: truly roving wiretaps.	Brief Article	Jan 1, 2006	221
The secret sharer: executive patent privilege.		Jan 1, 2006	340
From Bob Woodward to Judith Miller: the country's most reviled reporter is a direct descendant of its most beloved.	Column	Jan 1, 2006	1256
Like starting over: price controls are new again.		Dec 1, 2005	380
Pundit payola: accidental propagandists.	Brief Article	Dec 1, 2005	293
They shoot helicopters, don't they? How journalists spread rumors during Katrina.	Column	Dec 1, 2005	1319
Rummy's posse: Pentagon police work.		Nov 1, 2005	381
The long and happy death of the celebrity profile: there's more entertainment coverage than ever, and that's why it's so crappy.		Nov 1, 2005	1284
"Like undermining motherhood and apple pie": why are California Dems in local government embracing eminent domain abuse?		Nov 1, 2005	811
Why the New York Times love eminent domain: elite newspapers and liberal activists embrace the Kelo decision at their long-term peril.	Column	Oct 1, 2005	1314
The second Romanian revolution will be televised: the TV show Dallas helped overthrow Ceausescu. Now gangsta rap and pop culture are driving out corrupt post-Soviet thugs.		Oct 1, 2005	4967
Quien es Libre? Cut off from Cuba.		Aug 1, 2005	378
Saudi censors: friendly tyrants.		Aug 1, 2005	313
Capturing Tom Friedman: the Times columnist does foreign policy punditry by cliche.	Book Review	Aug 1, 2005	1344
Welfare Queen: farm subsidies for the filthy rich.		Jul 1, 2005	356
That's classified, ma'am.	Brief Article	Jul 1, 2005	200
Cashing in on weblogs: major media companies are investing in blogs. Is this a new boom or just a bubble?		Jul 1, 2005	1303
Who gets to play journalist? An academic question becomes a pressing legal issue.		Jun 1, 2005	1274
Bad host: cutting off Iranian dissidents.		May 1, 2005	339
Free at last: new newspapers are springing up everywhere, despite the government's help.	Column	May 1, 2005	1307
Subsidies and lies: how baseball came back to D.C.		May 1, 2005	753
Locker-room liberty: athletes who helped shape our times and the economic freedom that enabled them.	Book Review	May 1, 2005	5083
The Pentagon's secret stash: why we'll never see the second round of Abu Ghraib photos.		Apr 1, 2005	1289
Baby geniuses: vouchers for prodigies?	Brief Article	Mar 1, 2005	277
Taking the fifth: when journalists threaten our right to remain silent.	Column	Mar 1, 2005	1304
A Swift Boat Kick in the Teeth.	Letter to the Editor	Feb 1, 2005	228
Three strikes, out? Sea change in California.		Feb 1, 2005	383
That old, tired balancing act: did the election kill objective campaign journalism?		Feb 1, 2005	1306
All tomorrow's partisans: the culture war after the 2004 election.		Jan 1, 2005	1320
Fly the frugal skies: how low-cost airlines have transformed Europe--and what it means for America.		Jan 1, 2005	3509
Watergate Blowback.	Letter to the Editor	Dec 1, 2004	310
Biased about bias: the hunt for ideology becomes an ideology.		Dec 1, 2004	1293
A swift boat kick in the teeth: how the mainstream media grapple with partisans.		Nov 1, 2004	1376
Unbalanced like a Fox: Rupert Murdoch's critics should follow his lead.	Column	Oct 1, 2004	1283
Watergate blowback: the White House's ongoing battle against post-Nixon sunshine laws.		Aug 1, 2004	1282
Outlaw editors: change a lede, go to jail.		Jul 1, 2004	338
Only money: campaign finance reform bites supporters in the rear.		Jul 1, 2004	1298
Fair-weather friends: when journalists desert from free speech battles.		Jun 1, 2004	1775
Gossip wants to be free: in defense of online scandal mongering.		May 1, 2004	1322
Temporary doves: why are the architects of Kosovo so down on Gulf War II?		May 1, 2004	2624
Hack roast: when citizens attack ... reporters.		Apr 1, 2004	1308
Facts on the ground: eminent domain for dummies.		Mar 1, 2004	357
Alt business: mags for adult rockers.		Feb 1, 2004	478
Injustice by default: how the effort to catch "deadbeat dads" ruins innocent men's lives.		Feb 1, 2004	4652
The no-Kobe zone: competitive negligence.		Jan 1, 2004	387
If you build it, they will leave: sports teams fleece the taxpayer, again.		Jan 1, 2004	1247
Time enough for love.		Dec 1, 2003	439
Balls: the joy of watching ideas win.	Book Review	Dec 1, 2003	2302
Golden bear? California's surprising economy.		Nov 1, 2003	450
Keeping psychics honest: only in San Fran, part XXIX.		Nov 1, 2003	450
Liberty Belle: France's new libertarian youth leader.		Oct 1, 2003	1273
Reporters sans entree: Dept. of Homeland Scrutiny. (Citing).		Aug 1, 2003	457
Anything but the Ombudsman! Why newspapers should avoid in-house watchdogs.		Aug 1, 2003	1263
Velvet president: why Vaclav Havel is our era's George Orwell and more.		May 1, 2003	5052
Woe is media: it's time to save journalism from its saviors. (Culture and Reviews).	Industry Overview	Dec 1, 2002	4006
Foul ball: How a communist dictatorship and a U.S. embargo has silenced a Cuban historian. (Culture and Reviews).		Jun 1, 2002	2941
Speaking lies to power: Ralph Nader fudges the truth just like a real politician. (Culture and Reviews).	Book Review	May 1, 2002	2091
The politics of dead children: Have sanctions against Iraq murdered millions?		Mar 1, 2002	3870