Reason magazine - August/September 2014
Get Reason magazine along with 8,000+ other magazines & newspapers
Try FREE for 7 days
Latest and past issues of 8,000+ magazines & newspapers
Digital Access. Cancel Anytime.
Share with 4 family members.1 Year$99.99
Latest and past issues of 8,000+ magazines & newspapersDigital Access. Cancel Anytime.Share with 4 family members.Get Reason magazine
1 Year $14.99
Save 37%12 issues starting from March 2023 Digital Access. Cancel Anytime.Buy this issue $1.99
August/September 2014 issue Digital Access. - Journal Details
- In this issue
Journal Description
In this issue
Obamacare\'s Phony Success Story: After year one, the health care overhaul is riddled with problems (22); Obamacare by the Numbers: A state-by-state analysis of failed health care exchanges (28); Selling Obamacare: The weird misleading propaganda behind the federal health care law (34); Putin\'s New Old Russia: Moscow returns to authoritarianism at home and aggression abroad (40); Gold and Gods in Modern India: The curious religiosity of India\'s nouveau riche (50)
Cancel Anytime [ No Commitments ]
Digital Only
Bodies Against the State
In China, crowds of people line the streets. They are holding blank sheets of paper. There's nothing special about the paper; it's ordinary A4 letter size. The police nonetheless know what they mean. The leaders of the Chinese Communist Party know what they mean. The world knows what they mean.
Biden's Antitrust Crusade
In summer 2021, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on "Promoting Competition in the American Economy." A White House fact sheet declared that the economy was "booming under President Biden's leadership," saying the order was "building on this economic momentum" by pushing back against corporate consolidation, primarily through aggressive antitrust enforcement.
Biden's 'Marijuana Reform' Leaves Prohibition Untouched
According to the New York Times, the "marijuana reform" that President Joe Biden announced in October represented "a fundamental change in America's response to a drug that has been at the center of a clash between culture and policing for more than a half-century." If only.
What Women Want
Maybe it’s to be treated as individuals?
A Modern History of 'groomer' Politics
The social changes that paved the way for gay and trans acceptance have made pedophile acceptance less likely, not more.
In Defense of Algorithms
They’re good for us. They might even be good for democracy.
California Wants to Run Out of Gas
In late august, California air regulators announced that the state would ban the sale of most gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, a policy aimed at encouraging a shift to electric vehicles (E.V.s). A week later, amid a massive heat wave, California officials begged E.V. owners not to recharge their cars during peak evening hours so as not to overload the state's energy grid.
Immigration: America Needs 'Low-skilled' Workers
At a moment when even modest immigration reform is politically contentious, several Republicans in Congress are open to letting in more "high-skilled" immigrants. But that approach overlooks the fact that the country would benefit from admitting workers at all skill levels.
Argentina's Inflation Crisis
Argentina is no stranger to economic turmoil, having defaulted on its national debt three times since 2001.
Jennifer Sey Keeps Getting Canceled for Speaking Up
In 2008, Jennifer Sey was subjected to a vicious backlash after the 1986 USA Gymnastics national champion released Chalked Up, the first memoir published about rampant abuse in the sport. Her new book, Levi's Unbuttoned: The Woke Mob Took My Job but Gave Me My Voice, feels like a continuation of that story, detailing Sey's ouster from the jeans juggernaut-where she was set to become its first female CEO-after she again ruffled feathers earlier this year. This time she wasn't speaking out against abuse in sports; she was speaking out against COVID-19 school closures.
