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Katherine Mangu-Ward

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• Broken Windows Around the World
  The day after the East Coast earthquake, Bastiat's glazier is busy.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  August 24, 2011
• McDonald's to Kids: Apple Slices For All, Whether or Not You Want Them
  McDonald’s nudges kids to eat more fruit, fewer fries after being given a good shove by regulators
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  July 26, 2011
• Cheating Teachers Play the Blame Game
  Atlanta's dishonest teachers say the data made them do it.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  July 13, 2011
• Margarine Bootleggers Sent to Federal Prison
  ...and other stories of what happens when the government plays with your food.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  June 22, 2011
• The Politics of Protection
  The battles over the Endangered Species Act are all too human.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  May 10, 2011
• Education Showdown
  The irresistible force of school reform meets the immovable object of teachers unions.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 18, 2011
• The Loughner Panic
  Breaking down the media/political breakdown over the Tucson massacre
  Nick Gillespie, Jesse Walker, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Brian Doherty, Radley Balko, Ronald Bailey and Jacob Sullum
  March 14, 2011
• In the Long Run, Are We All Undead?
  When the zombies come, the neocons will be ready.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  February 18, 2011
• Education and the State of the Union
  In which Obama rests on his laurels and tells parents and 20-somethings to get their acts together
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  January 27, 2011
• Beware Bipartisan School Reform
  If everybody on the Hill is happy, Americans probably shouldn't be.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  January 7, 2011
• Space Cheese and Other Breakthroughs
  Good news from SpaceX as NASA struggles to make room for private space companies.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  December 17, 2010
• Congress Forces Millions to Cut Up Their Credit Cards
  The changing shape of plastic in America
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  December 1, 2010
• In Defense of Economic Growth
  An interview with Ferraris for All author Daniel Ben-Ami
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  November 30, 2010
• Montana Wants Money for Nothing
  When states vote for cheap payday loans, they wind up with no loans at all.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  November 4, 2010
• "Secret Money from God Knows Where"
  Campaign cash and finger-pointing in the post-Citizens United era
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  October 27, 2010
• Waiting for Superman Becomes Waiting for Godot
  Telling tales about the demise of education reform in D.C.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  October 13, 2010
• Let Them Eat Frankenfish!
  After 15 years, the FDA is about to let genetically modified fish enter the food supply. It's about time.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  September 24, 2010
• Throwing the Bums Out Is Harder Than It Looks
  Despite voter outrage, most congressmen will win re-election.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  September 15, 2010
• Knowing is Half the Battle. But It's the Easy Half.
  Liberating teacher performance data is a great way to start out the school year. But it's not enough.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  September 1, 2010
• Why Buy the Cow?
  Legal weed, jokes about communists, and the perils of purchasing your own milk maker.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  August 13, 2010
• New Rules for Schools
  For-profit schools got fat on federal education money. Now the government wants to put them on a diet.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  July 28, 2010
• Teachers Unions vs. Online Education
  Kids live on the Internet. Why aren’t they learning online too?
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  July 20, 2010
• Wine Snobs and Suds Swillers Unite!
  Legislation oozing its way up the Hill threatens open markets in beer, wine, and liquor.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  July 8, 2010
• If You Love Newspapers, Let Them Go
  A handy guide to kicking your dead tree habit
  Jesse Kline, Katherine Mangu-Ward and Robby Soave
  June 24, 2010
• Geopolitics and the Pill
  Mistaken prophecies about the impact of oral contraception
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  June 18, 2010
• Cows, Copy, and Cash
  Citizen journalism meets microfinance
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  June 10, 2010
• Meet Your New Commander-in-Geek
  U.S. Cyber Command has no idea why it exists.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  May 26, 2010
• Txting 2 Cut Gov't
  The GOP launches a new site to allow citizens to vote on defunding pork
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  May 12, 2010
• Guerrilla Public Service
  An artist surreptitiously improves L.A.'s highways.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 30, 2010
• School Sucks: The Movie
  A review of The Cartel, a documentary about school choice—and the lack thereof.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 23, 2010
• Last Chance for School Reform
  D.C. schools are the worst in the nation, but they may also be ripe for big changes.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 7, 2010
• Traditional Schools Aren't Working. Let's Move Learning Online.
  We already work online, play online, and shop online. Why isn't school online?
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 6, 2010
• Cocktails Cops Can't Resist
  Bartenders revive classic cocktails. The law responds by reviving classic crackdowns.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 2, 2010
• Nancy Pelosi: Jobs Junkie
  The Speaker of the House just can't stop talking about jobs
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  March 24, 2010
• Who Will Watch The Watchmen?
  An interview with National Journal's Shane Harris, author of a new book on the rise of the surveillance state
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  February 25, 2010
• The Politics of Giving
  The Philanthropy Roundtable’s Adam Meyerson talks about the future of charity, power grabs by the IRS, and pressures to create a nonprofit cartel.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  February 23, 2010
• Taking Money from Girl Scouts
  Sweeping new regulations could strangle nonprofit financial literacy programs.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  December 16, 2009
• Getting Virginia Off the Sauce
  The Old Dominion's new governor promises to end the state liquor monopoly
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  November 12, 2009
• Consumer Financial Protection Vagary
  Congress confuses the causes of the financial crisis—on purpose
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  October 23, 2009
• Payday of Reckoning
  New laws aimed at kneecapping payday lenders will end up hurting the poor
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  September 25, 2009
• Inflation Returns!
  Free market economists debate the prospects, fears, and even hopes for rising prices in post-crises America
  Katherine Mangu-Ward, Jeffrey Rogers, James Grant, Steven Gjerstad, Donald Luskin, Peter Schiff, Scott Sumner, Randall Parker and Vernon Smith
  September 22, 2009
• TARP Tall Tales
  Phase 1: Spend $700 billion, Phase 2: ??, Phase 3: Profit?
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  September 3, 2009
• Obama Pulls an Agency Out of His...Hat
  Rhetorical sleight of hand on the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  June 26, 2009
• The Lure of the Czars
  It took the Romanovs almost 300 years to produce 18 czars. Obama did it in less than 100 days.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  May 22, 2009
• Blackbeard Economics
  The surprising, and surprisingly tame, self-organization of pirates
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  May 21, 2009
• Is the Government Acting Like a Payday Lender?
  Banks want to pay back their bailout loans early, but Treasury doesn't want to let them go
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  April 23, 2009
• Gimme Some Sugar
  Pepsi and Pizza Hut go au naturel, but still make you fat
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  March 27, 2009
• Poll Finds Jobs, Environment Are Top Priority for Americans
  ...but so is almost everything else.
  Katherine Mangu-Ward
  March 11, 2009

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