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Tim Cavanaugh is the Web editor of Reason, the libertarian monthly named one of "The 50 Best Magazines" for two years straight by the Chicago Tribune.
Cavanaugh manages, edits, and, when all else fails, writes all the content for Reason Online, makes sure the Hit and Run blog runs on time, and works to ensure that Reason meets the demands of its rapidly growing number of satisfied readers. For Reason, he has written about Rob Reiner's expensive efforts to keep all Californians brain-fed and smoke-free, Hizbollah's complex position in the new middle east, the long, happy life of America's anti-defamation industry, the hubbub over embryonic stem cell research, and many other topics.
Prior to coming to work for Reason, Cavanaugh edited the late, lamented Suck, which was arguably the first, and was indisputably the most hated, daily content site on the web. He has more than ten years' experience working for daily and weekly newspapers, and a variety of magazines, trade papers and web efforts.
Cavanaugh's articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Beirut Daily Star, San Francisco Magazine, Mother Jones, Agence France-Presse, Wired, Newsday, Salon, Orange County Register, The Rake magazine, and countless alternative and community papers too embarrassing to mention. His own site, The Simpleton, gets updated once every blue moon.
Tim Cavanaugh lives in California with his wife and two daughters.
Contributions | Out of Control Blog Posts
- Damn This Recession!
The rise of the unemployees
Tim Cavanaugh
August 29, 2011 - How Long Will It Take Keynes to Die?
You won't find out by reading America's newspaper of record.
Tim Cavanaugh
August 17, 2011 - Fair Tax or Foul?
The promise and peril of changing the way we pay for government
Tim Cavanaugh
July 14, 2011 - The Stimulus Was a Success
...unless you wanted it to stimulate anything.
Tim Cavanaugh
July 7, 2011 - The Golden State’s Iron Bars
How California prison guards became the country’s most powerful union
Tim Cavanaugh
June 23, 2011 - Why Not Let Prices and Wages Fall?
Bernanke's sophisticated surgical tools keep making the patient worse
Tim Cavanaugh
June 17, 2011 - America Pays for Villaraigosa’s Transit Legacy
You can’t say no to federal funds for L.A.’s empty trains, fake transit hubs, and unfixed potholes.
Tim Cavanaugh
June 2, 2011 - Big Trouble in Little Hoover
Why does the nonpartisan, good-government consensus sound so radical?
Tim Cavanaugh
May 31, 2011 - Fair Tax Fouls
What’s good and bad in Huckabee and Cain’s favorite proposal
Tim Cavanaugh
May 16, 2011 - Trump Is a Laughing Matter
But the bankruptcy of the Republican Party is not.
Tim Cavanaugh
April 15, 2011 - The All-New Failure of the New Economics
Unemployment rates and other useless measurements
Tim Cavanaugh
April 6, 2011 - The Fogh of War
Should the international community get to declare war on America’s behalf?
Tim Cavanaugh
March 25, 2011 - The $6 Billion Scam
Jerry Brown’s plan to kill community “redevelopment” is fiscally smart, morally right, and probably doomed.
Tim Cavanaugh
March 17, 2011 - Has Anybody Seen Jimmy Carter Lately?
At this point, would America settle for a new 1980s?
Tim Cavanaugh
March 4, 2011 - The Golden State Is Made of Lead
Pollyannas say we’ll all be going back to Cali. I don’t think so.
Tim Cavanaugh
February 25, 2011 - What’s In It for Us?
Dominoes are falling in the Middle East. They’re just not the right dominoes.
Tim Cavanaugh
February 17, 2011 - Farewell, My Lovely
How public pensions killed progressive California
Tim Cavanaugh
February 16, 2011 - Let Your People Go
Egypt’s still screwed up. Should the United States take an interest in the outcome?
Tim Cavanaugh
February 3, 2011 - What’s the Matter with Provincetown?
The Democrats’ two years of control delivered zero social liberalism.
Tim Cavanaugh
February 1, 2011 - Savers Hate America
Ben Bernanke wants you to be a consumption unit. Why are you ignoring him?
Tim Cavanaugh
January 19, 2011 - Penny Reign
America’s least valuable coin endures.
Tim Cavanaugh
December 24, 2010 - Laying Cable with Barry and Dub
If WikiLeaks bores anybody to death, will Julian Assange be guilty of murder?
Tim Cavanaugh
December 8, 2010 - The Well-Pilfered Clavier
Does copyright protection prevent creators from making stuff and selling it?
Tim Cavanaugh
November 23, 2010 - Going Broke by Fractions of a Percent
Ben Bernanke should stop paying interest on reserves
Tim Cavanaugh
November 18, 2010 - Sacramento Über Alles
Jerry Brown’s plan to revive California through government alone
Tim Cavanaugh
October 20, 2010 - The Last Action Hero
After seven years that felt like a thousand, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger bequeaths a slightly larger government to a sickly state.
Tim Cavanaugh
October 18, 2010 - eMeg Will Use Skill Set to Dissect California
Meg Whitman’s plan for the Golden State is too grown-up for its own good
Tim Cavanaugh
October 1, 2010 - Public Employees vs. the Public Will
Government workers get more powerful as they grow less popular.
Tim Cavanaugh
September 21, 2010 - Whole Lotta Nothing In L.A.
How the Community Redevelopment Agency is turning the City of the Angels back into a desert.
Tim Cavanaugh
September 9, 2010 - California’s Gift of Shame
How IOUs, layoffs, late payments, and other bad news may still save the Golden State
Tim Cavanaugh
August 27, 2010 - Mystery Train
How has California’s high-speed rail project survived for 14 years without a plan, a budget, or a single accomplishment?
Tim Cavanaugh
July 13, 2010 - The Slow Fade of Meatspace
When will this Internet thing catch on?
Tim Cavanaugh
June 22, 2010 - What’s a Diploma Worth?
Americans have always loved college and real estate. So why do these assets need government support?
Tim Cavanaugh
May 20, 2010 - The Rise of Decline
Experts say things are collapsing. Maybe they’re not collapsing fast enough.
Tim Cavanaugh
April 19, 2010 - Little Grrrls Lost
Angry, anti-capitalist punk girl bands power the U.S. economy.
Tim Cavanaugh
March 29, 2010 - Five Lies About the American Economy
The Obama team’s favorite slices of fiscal baloney
Tim Cavanaugh
March 11, 2010 - Wake Me Up When Men Get Pregnant
Biological transhumanism starts the 21st century on the wrong foot.
Tim Cavanaugh
February 19, 2010 - Artificial Housing Respiration
Government-sponsored housing inflation is locking the next generation out of homeownership
Tim Cavanaugh
December 10, 2009 - The Debtorship Society
More Americans became "homeowners" while owning less and less of their homes
Tim Cavanaugh
September 21, 2009 - Dickens Is Back. Watch Your Wallet.
If you want to understand the economy, don't turn to the author of Oliver Twist for answers.
Tim Cavanaugh
June 16, 2009 - Sympathy for the Investment Banker
Who killed Bear Stearns? After all, it was you and me.
Tim Cavanaugh
June 15, 2009 - If You Can't Handle the Stress Test...
Are the Democrats tired of being the bear in the china closet?
Tim Cavanaugh
May 8, 2009 - Managed Destruction, or, Where Are the Paleo-Schumpeterians When We Need Them?
Can Carlota Perez save the global economy?
Tim Cavanaugh
April 9, 2009 - No Hope For Bad Debtors?
Why nobody's cramming for the great mortgage test
Tim Cavanaugh
February 3, 2009 - Houses of Pain
When did declining home prices become politically intolerable?
Tim Cavanaugh
December 23, 2008 - Hank Paulson's Countdown to Armageddon
How the Chicken Little treasurer is nationalizing the U.S. economy
Tim Cavanaugh
September 25, 2008 - Everything New Democrat Is Old Again
The Third Way has become the Third Rail, but have the Dems really abandoned the free market?
Tim Cavanaugh
August 28, 2008
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