Don't Let Amtrak Con You
President Reagan is trying to cut Amtrak's billions in subsidies, but the great train bureaucracy is fighting back-with a lot of flimflam.
May 1985
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Nuclear Winter: How Much Do We Really Know?
A well-publicized study predicts that even a limited nuclear war would plunge much of the earth into darkness and freezing, threatening the very survival of mankind. Many are taking the prediction as fact, but uncertainties abound.
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The Budget Revolution That Wasn't
If you believed candidate Ronald Reagan in 1980, you should have seen federal spending of $760 billion last year. Instead, it was $842 billion. Any guesses about 1988 spending?
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Interview with Charles Murray
How best to help the poor? That question has long occupied the author of the pathbreaking book Losing Ground. And he's come up with some controversial, eye-opening answers.
