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Republicans Don't Lack A Plan To Replace Obamacare. They Lack A Unified Theory

THERE HAS NEVER been a shortage of gop substitutes for Obamacare, from think tank white papers to congressional committee frameworks to fully drafted bills. But in the seven years that congressional Republicans spent promising to repeal and replace President Obama’s health care law, none ever moved beyond the development phase, because what Republicans lacked wasn’t a plan. It was a theory.

Meet Eric July

Your New Favorite Anarcho-Capitalist Christian Rap-Metal Artist

Supreme Court Tries To Draw A Line Around Gay Wedding Cakes

IF DECORATING A cake counts as constitutionally protected speech, what doesn’t count? That was the question at stake during Supreme Court oral arguments in Masterpiece Cake shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

The FCC Takes Its Hands Off The Internet

IN APRIL, AJIT Pai, the newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), announced his first major initiative: taking internet regulation back to 2014.

Junkyard Blight No More

LIKE OIL-SLICKED SEAGULLS and smokestacks spewing black fumes, piles of rusting cars were standard symbols of environmental blight in the 1960s and early ’70s. “Few of America’s eyesores are so unsightly as its millions of junked automobiles,” President Richard Nixon declared in a 1970 speech.

Throw Your Kid In The Scorpion Pit

“HE HAS A class on race and emotional safety,” an old friend of mine squealed with delight about her son’s public school schedule.

Banned In Cannes

Perched on France’s southern coast, Cannes is famous for its luxurious beaches.

Guitar Globalization

Ex–Rage Against the Machine axman Tom Morello decides to Rock Against the TPP.

Hollywood Takes On Fan Fiction

A Star Trek lover’s new film is making the studios unhappy.

Free Brazil!

Meet the millennial libertarian activists who helped bring down a president.

Charlottesville And The Perils Of Collectivism

PETER CVJETANOVIC STANDS in a sea of tiki torches, his mouth wide open, teeth partially bared. You can almost hear the snarling scream from the photograph.

Government Created The Housing Crisis. Government Can Solve It.

Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney

Your Flight Is Delayed

THE FRENZIED BATTLE TO REFORM AMERICAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

Cops Who Claim They Know When Drivers Are Stoned

Even when blood tests say they’re not

Authoritarians To The Left And Right

Authoritarians To The Left And Right

Don't Panic Over North Korea

Don't Panic Over North Korea

Go Ahead, Put Salt On Your Food

Ignore the feds’ bad advice on diet and nutrition.

What America Taught A Murderous Drug Warrior

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte follows prohibitionist logic to its lethal conclusion.

Deportations Up Under Trump

A round-up of immigrant round-ups

Jane Jacobs, In Her Own Words

The death and life of a great American urbanist

Your Money Or Your Life

The immorality of insurance

Under The Stars And Under The Radar

A handy guide to camping on forbidden turf

Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs. That's OK. (For Now.)

VIDEO GAMES, LIKE work, are basically a series of quests comprised of mundane and repetitive tasks: Receive an assignment, travel to a location, overcome some obstacles, perform some sort of search, pick up an item, and then deliver it in exchange for a reward—and, usually, another quest, which starts the cycle all over again. You are not playing the game so much as following its orders. The game is your boss; to succeed, you have to do what it says.

We Could Have Had Cellphones Four Decades Earlier

Thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission. 

God And Man At The FBI

Dissident and off beat religious groups have faced more than a century of surveillance.

Toward A Unified Theory Of Stalin, The Teamsters, Alcoholics Anonymous, And Facebook

Toward A Unified Theory Of Stalin, The Teamsters, Alcoholics Anonymous, And Facebook

Why The Wall Won't Work

The Legal, Practical, Economic, and Moral Case Against Trump’s Border Barrier

Drug Smugglers Have Already Beaten Trump's Wall

DURING A SPEECH announcing his intention to seek the presidency, Donald Trump stumbled on what would become a signature issue for his campaign: Mexico.

Why It's So Hard To Get Pervs Out Of Politics

POLITICS IS A high-stakes, winner-takes all game with irresistible appeal to a certain kind of low-quality human being. There are typically only two viable candidates in any national race, and voters have a lot invested in the idea that bad things will happen if their guy loses.

You're Not Going To Die In A Plane Crash

That has nothing to do with who is president.