Throwing the Bums Out
How a small-town businessman sparked an anti-incumbency movement in Pennsylvania--and what it means for national politics.
December 2006
Cover Story
South Park Libertarians
Trey Parker and Matt Stone on liberals, conservatives, censorship, and religion
Features
The Budget-Cutters Who Couldn't Stop Spending
The Republican Study Committee, one of the biggest groups in Congress, was created to rein in big spenders. So why can't it deliver?
The Federal Budget's Long Emergency
Got a boondoggle you're not proud of? Stick it in a supplemental appropriations bill.
A Healthy Dose of Anarchy
After Katrina, nontraditional, decentralized relief steps in where big government and big charity failed.
Symposiums
Who Deserves the Libertarian Vote?
Reason asks Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians why supporters of "Free Minds and Free Markets" should vote for their candidates.
Culture & Reviews
Art Deco at Ground Zero
Five years after 9/11, how about a design actual human beings might like?
When Piracy Becomes Promotion
How unauthorized copying made Japanese animation profitable in the United States.
Books
Editor's Note
Columns
Insurgent Republicans
The Club for Growth wants to create a free market GOP, whether the party likes it or not.
How 'Big Nutrition' Destroys Your Will to Fatness
Awash in healthy choices, starving brains seek sugary relief.
Citings
March of the Moles
Surveilling Americans
Big Easy Choice
Schools in New Orleans
Tom's Last Cigarette
Toons go cold turkey
Organic Panic
Border closing chokes farms
Zero Sense
Draconian school policies
Registration Required
You too can be a sex offender
Depressed Markets?
Happiness and free trade
Fried Messages
Your brain on anti-drug ads
Casual Sex, Sunni Style
"Visit" marriages
