How to avoid a likely and dangerous corporate takeover of the legal marijuana market.
Government
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April/May 2014
A Nudge Toward Temperance
The great policy challenge to cannabis legalization is discouraging problem use. Most consumers have no trouble keeping their consumption within reasonable bounds, but 10 to 15 percent lose control for months at a time, and some of them develop chronic problems. At any one time, there are a couple of million Americans who self-report that […]
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April/May 2014
How Not to Make a Hash Out of Cannabis Legalization
Leaving it to the states is a recipe for disaster.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April/May 2014
Light Touch
How smart regulation and technological innovation ruined a perfectly good conservative crusade against government.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, March/April/May 2014
Broken Promised Land
Truman’s quick recognition of Israel was tragic, dysfunctional, and quintessentially American.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Health Care, January/February 2014, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
After Obamacare
A frenzy of hospital mergers could leave the typical American family spending 50 percent of its income on health care within ten years—and blaming the Democrats. The solution requires banning price discrimination by monopolistic hospitals.
Posted inEconomy, Government, January/February 2014, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
Big Beef
Independent ranchers and animal rights activists don’t agree about much, except that it’s time to stop using federal tax dollars to support the meat lobby.
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2014, Magazine
The Corporate “Free Speech” Racket
How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation.
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2014, Magazine
Smokey and the Bandit
How a secret government sweetheart deal for Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder wrecked a great park ranger’s career.
Posted inGovernment, January/February 2014, Magazine
The Monthly Interview
A conversation with Anne-Marie Slaughter, policy planning chief in Hillary Clinton’s State Department, on the future of military interventionism.
