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The Search For A Place To Toke Up

DENVER HAS A bunch of businesses where you can legally buy marijuana but none where you can legally use it. That is supposed to change under a local ballot initiative approved by voters last fall. But a statewide solution to Colorado’s cannabis consumption conundrum has been derailed by fears of a federal crackdown.

The Democrats' Dullard Dynasty

As the pendulum swings against the GOP, an exhausted opposition looks to nothingburgers like Chelsea Clinton.

Are Robots Going to Steal Our Jobs?

Many technologists think so, but economists aren’t so easily convinced. 

Cassandra Of The Crash

An inter view with former Dallas Fed researcher Danielle DiMar tino Booth

Don't Be Like The Rainbow Fish

LIKE SO MANY of the best socialist products, Marcus Pfister’s The Rainbow Fish has been a runaway capitalist success.

Immunize Your Kids Against Intrusive Government

DO I VACCINATE my son? You bet—and not just against the usual motley mix of physical childhood ailments. Almost every day our homeschooling curriculum offers a boost to his immunity against excessive respect for meddlers and control freaks.

The Case For Sanctions Fails At Every Turn

AS PUNDITS DEBATE how much the Trump administration’s penalties have contributed to Venezuela’s economic crisis and as European governments move forward with a plan to trade with Iran in the face of U.S. sanctions reimposed on the Islamic Republic, it’s time for some calm and straight talk about sanctions.

How To Get Better At Budgets

YOU DON’T HAVE to be an avid consumer of news about the federal government to know that Uncle Sam’s annual budgeting process is a mess.

Deal With The Devil

Libertarian reformers and authoritarian nationalists battle it out to reshape Brazil.

Is Redistricting Depriving Women Of Their Voting Rights?

The Supreme Court weighs in.

Bringing The Passenger Pigeon Out Of Extinction

Bringing extinct animals back to life is now within our grasp, says Long Now Foundation researcher Ben Novak.

The Many Resurrections of Sherlock Holmes

Why the Great Detective is always in fashion.

Will Today's Global Trade Wars Lead To World War III?

The splintering of international economic interdependence is a worrying sign for peace through trade.

Goodbye, Obama

The outgoing president leaves a loaded gun in the Oval Office.

Democrats Defect From Obamacare

Meanwhile, the GOP learns to stop worrying and love Obama’s signature legislative victory.

Lionel Shriver Doesn't Care If You Hate Her Sombrero

The author of We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Mandibles pulls no punches when it comes to race, sex, or economics.

Safe Sex, Dangerous State

THE KIDS THESE days are incredibly lame.

Giant Ziplock Baggies Full Of Lambs Are Going To Change Everything

IN APRIL, RESEARCHERS announced they had managed to keep several extremely premature lambs alive and growing in artificial wombs.

The Surprisingly Long History Of Private Space Exploration

America returns to its roots, thanks to philanthropists who are literally shooting for the stars.

Neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt On Alcohol, LSD, and Getting Sacked For His Findings

The British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist David Nutt had reached arguably the pinnacle of his field as chairman of the government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.

Health Care And The Politics Of Disruption

AT THE BEGINNING of May, the insurance giant Aetna announced that it would cease selling health coverage in Obamacare’s insurance exchanges entirely.

After The Martian, Andy Weir Goes To The Moon

In November, writer Andy Weir released a new novel, Artemis, about a settlement on the moon. His first book, The Martian, which you may remember from the blockbuster movie version starring Matt Damon, was powered by plot-driving engineering mishaps and triumphs. Artemis instead gave Weir a chance to unleash his inner “economics dork,” he says. This fall, Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward talked with the author about what he thinks the political economy of the moon would look like.

Goodbye, Millennials

Get off our lawn.

Don't Blame Pain Pills For The Opioid Crisis

CHRIS CHRISTIE, THE outgoing governor of New Jersey, has repeatedly told the story of a law school classmate who died of an overdose after getting hooked onoxycodone prescribed for back pain.

From Bork To Willett

Is the conservative legal movement going libertarian?

It's Time To Privatize The V.A.

And a lot of other government functions as well

Now Hiring: Teen Cigarette Narcs

FINDING A JOB as a 16-year-old can be a challenge.

Steve Forbes Talks Shop

A hundred years ago, financial columnist B.C. Forbes started an eponymous business magazine.

Ye Shall Know Them By Their Debt

DONALD TRUMP CERTAINLY knows how to drive the news cycle.

Global Trade Is Good For Small-Town Manufacturers

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP is nothing if not a protectionist.