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A Vitiated Jury

For years, your life has been crashing around you. You were a corporate president; now, you are a criminal defendant. The jury has reached..

Sep 29, 2011
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3 Mins
Analysis: U.S. Attorney's statement on Rajaratnam Case

Summer 2011 issue -- On May 11, after the trial of Galleon hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam (pictured below) had ended in a conviction on

Jul 26, 2011
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7 Mins
The Crime of Insider-Trading Punishment

"There is not even a chance we will do one day in jail,” Danielle Chiesi told Reuters last year, speaking of herself and Raj Rajaratnam...

Jul 21, 2011
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Alexander R. Cohen
3 Mins
The Berlin Wall Then and Now

I first visited West Berlin in June 1981. I took the closed American military train through the 112-mile-long corridor through....

Jun 9, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
5 Mins
The Credit Crisis and Moral Hazards

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has staffed-up in anticipation of hundreds of bank failures. Major investment banks are on

Jun 9, 2011
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Eugene C. Holloway
10 Mins
BB&T Stands Up for Rights

January 26, 2006 -- BB&T, a major bank with branches through the Southeast, has taken a stand for private property and individual rights....

Jun 9, 2011
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David Kelley Ph.D
3 Mins
Why Does the War on (Some) Drugs Continue?

March 26, 2009 -- The Drug War has been in the news again this week. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed off to Mexico on Wednesday...

Jun 1, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
5 Mins
Why Can't I Sell You My kidney?

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: three mayors and five rabbis walk into a bar—no, excuse me, they’re behind bars. Actually, it’s no joke...

May 31, 2011
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Bradley Doucet
4 Mins
A Suspect is Not a Perp

As the director of the Business Rights Center at the fiercely pro-capitalist Atlas Society, I shall not be accused, I think, of harboring

May 20, 2011
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3 Mins
Security and Liberty

As the congress debates a new security bill and America faces a terrible and insidious threat, there is no more critical time to recall the

May 10, 2011
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3 Mins
The Freedom Olympics

Americans typically measure their freedom by looking backward or forward—backward to the early republic or forward to their ideal republic.

Apr 10, 2011
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10 Mins
When Does Speech Become Treason?

Winter 2005 -- When Michael Moore’s twisted anti-Bush jeremiad, Fahrenheit 9/11, was released, many Republicans, conservatives, and

Mar 31, 2011
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Henry Mark Holzer
10 Mins
Elementary Lessons in Property Rights

Americans recently learned that this is more than a mere cliché; it’s a profound philosophical principle that is under fire from the very in

Mar 30, 2011
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Edward Hudgins
4 Mins
The Supreme Assault on Private Property: An Interview with Scott Bullock

We at IJ are swamped with requests from people to take up their cases, many of which we simply can’t do due to limited resources. However

Mar 30, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
Book Review: The Normality of Freedom

In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable

Mar 30, 2011
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Victor Sperandeo
10 Mins
Medical Marijuana and the Law: Reefer Madness Meets Wickard v. Filburn

June 2005 -- In the medical-marijuana case Gonzales v. Raich, the Supreme Court ruled (on June 6, 2005) six to three that federal laws

Mar 30, 2011
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David N. Mayer
8 Mins
The Next Chief Justice

June 2005 issue -- Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s announcement of her retirement from the Supreme Court took by surprise most Court-watchers

Mar 30, 2011
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David N. Mayer
10 Mins
Sovietizing America: How Sustainable Development Crushes the Individual

April/May 2005 -- An unrecognized threat to the liberty and prosperity of each American has spread throughout the country, taking root in

Mar 29, 2011
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Michael Shaw and Edward Hudgins
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Inside "The Excuse-Making Industry" Part 1

On the night of October 1, 1993, twelve-year-old Polly Klaas—a pretty, straight-A student with laughing eyes and sun-streaked hair—was...

Mar 24, 2011
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Robert James Bidinotto
10 Mins
Ayn Rand's Persecuted Minority

Atlas Shrugged is an extended cry against the oppression of creators, most particularly businessmen: the Atlases who bear this world on thei

Mar 24, 2011
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10 Mins

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