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• Issue #119: "The Lesson of the XM/Sirius Merger" by Jim Harper, August 15, 2008.
Past Issues
• Issue #118: "Bring Appellate Competition Back to Patent Law" by Timothy B. Lee, July 28, 2008.
• Issue #117: "Save the Orphan (Works)" by Timothy B. Lee, June 30, 2008.
• Issue #116: "The Future of News: A Golden Age for Free Speech?" by Steve Boriss, June 09, 2008.
• Issue #115: "Low-Power FM: Freedom Is Diversity" by James Plummer, May 28, 2008.
• Issue #114: "L-1: The Technology Company in Your Pocket" by Jim Harper, May 12, 2008.
• Issue #113: "The "EEV" of Destruction" by Jim Harper, March 12, 2008.
• Issue #112: "Beacon Lessons" by Timothy B. Lee, February 08, 2008.
• Issue #111: ""Free" (Filtered) Broadband?" by James Plummer, January 24, 2008.
• Issue #110: "Voter ID: A Tempest in a Teapot That Could Burn Us All" by Jim Harper, January 7, 2008.
• Issue #109: "Public Safety and Public Spectrum" by James Plummer, November 6, 2007.
• Issue #108: "The REAL ID Act: An Update" by Jim Harper, October 8, 2007.
• Issue #107: "The 700 MHz Spectrum: How About an 'Open' Auction?" by Jim Harper, July 30, 2007.
• Issue #106: "Google Should Stick to What It Knows Best" by Timothy B. Lee, July 6, 2007.
• Issue #105: "Why Libertarians Should Celebrate Free Software" by Timothy B. Lee, June 22, 2007.
• Issue #104: "Immigration Reform: REAL ID and a Federal 'No Work' List" by Jim Harper, June 14, 2007.
• Issue #103: "Wu on Wireless: A Simple Solution?" by Timothy B. Lee, June 1, 2007.
• Issue #102: "How Endangered Is Internet Radio?" by James Plummer, May 18, 2007.
• Issue #101: "Supreme Court Ruling Could Save Vonage" by Timothy B. Lee, May 1, 2007.
• Issue #100: "Fusion Centers: Leave 'Em to the States" by Jim Harper, March 13, 2007.
• Issue #99: "Data Retention: Costly Outsourced Surveillance" by James Plummer, January 22, 2007.
• Issue #98: "Broadcast Flag Burning," by Timothy B. Lee, May 12, 2005.
• Issue #97: "When Data Security Regulations Fail, There Is an Alternative," by Jim Harper, March 29, 2005.
• Issue #96: "Apple v. Free Speech?" by Timothy B. Lee, February 3, 2005.
• Issue #95: "The Regulator Who Loved Markets," by Adam Thierer, January 21, 2005.
• Issue #94: "Of Desperate Housewives and Desperate Regulators," by Adam Thierer, January 5, 2005.
• Issue #93: "Privacy Threats from a Banana Republic," by Jim Harper, November 11, 2004.
• Issue #92: "Copyright Enforcement Revisited," by Adam Thierer, November 4, 2004.
• Issue #91: "Twilight for Traditional Telecom Regulation?" by Adam Thierer, October 25, 2004.
• Issue #90: "Howard Stern and the Future of Media Censorship," by Adam Thierer, October 11, 2004.
• Issue #89: "Federal Spyware Legislation: Some Lessons from Antiquity," by Jim Harper, October 1, 2004.
• Issue #88: "The "Rathergate" Incident: Remembering Why Separation of Press and State Is Vital," by Adam Thierer, September 30, 2004.
• Issue #87: "Sen. McCain's Plan to Liberate the Broadcast Spectrum," by Adam Thierer, September 30, 2004.
• Issue #86: "Censoring Violence in Media," by Adam Thierer, August 10, 2004.
• Issue #85: "Media Ownership Regulation Redux: A Reality Check," by Adam Thierer, June 30, 2004.
• Issue #84: "Surrogate-Parent Sam," by Adam Thierer, June 25, 2004.
• Issue #83: "Shed No Tears for AT&T," by Adam Thierer, June 16, 2004.
• Issue #82: "Negotiate, Not Litigate," by Randolph J. May, James L. Gatusso and Adam Thierer, June 7, 2004.
• Issue #81: "Is the Bush Administration Finally Getting Serious about Broadband Policy?" by Adam Thierer, April 28, 2004.
• Issue #80: "Return of the (Un)Fairness Doctrine: The Media Ownership Reform Act," by Adam Thierer, April 20, 2004.
• Issue #79: "Media Ownership Madness and the Third Person Effect Hypothesis," by Adam Thierer, April 20, 2004.
• Issue #78: "Obscenity Crackdown—What Will the Next Step Be?" by Eugene Volokh, April 12, 2004.
• Issue #77: "Should Government Censor Speech on Cable and Satellite TV?" by Adam Thierer, March 29, 2004.
• Issue #76: "The EU Microsoft Ruling: A Welfare State for Aggrieved Market Losers," by Robert A. Levy, March 25, 2004.
• Issue #75: "On Drawing Lines in Copyright Law," by Adam Thierer, March 5, 2004.
• Issue #74: "An Open Letter to Pro-Regulation Conservatives," by Adam Thierer, February 17, 2004.
• Issue #73: "The Plot to Stop the Internet Telephone Revolution," by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., February 9, 2004.
• Issue #72: "Why Prohibitions on Internet Gambling Won't Work," by Koleman Strumpf, January 23, 2004.
• Issue #71: "All Politics is Local: How Broadcasters Want to Silence Satellite Radio," by Radley Balko, January 20, 2004.
• Issue #70: "Howard Dean's Plan for the Internet: Collectivism In, Property Rights Out," by Adam Thierer, January 15, 2004.
• Issue #69: "Everybody Wants to Rule the Web," by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., December 31, 2003.
• Issue #68: "Return of the 'Seven Dirty Words' Indecency Standard?," by Adam Thierer, December 18, 2003.
• Issue #67: "DTV Mandate Tally Could Grow Again With Upcoming Multicasting Decision," by Adam Thierer, December 5, 2003.
• Issue #66: "Number Portability Decision Adds to Wireline Telecom Sector's Perfect Storm," by Adam Thierer, November 20, 2003.
• Issue #65: "Google as a Public Utility? No Results in This Search for Monopoly," by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., November 14, 2003.
• Issue #64: "The Broadcast Flag Decision: The FCC Bends Over Backward to Protect Over-the-Air Television and the HDTV Transition," by Adam Thierer, November 13, 2003.
• Issue #63: "GAO's Cable Report Smacks Down A La Carte Regulation," by Adam Thierer, October 28, 2003.
• Issue #62: "Don't Ban Technology to Solve Copyright Problems," by Doug Bandow, October 10, 2003.
• Issue #61: "The Coming Internet Tax Quid Pro Quo?" by Adam Thierer and Veronique de Rugy, October 7, 2003.
• Issue #60: "The Do-Not-Call Solution: Turn the Ringer Off," by Robert A. Levy, October 3, 2003.
• Issue #59: "European Politicians Want to Tax U.S Companies," by Veronique de Rugy, September 26, 2003.
• Issue #58: "Was the UNE Triennial Review Worth the Wait? Part II: The Substance," by Adam Thierer, September 15, 2003.
• Issue #57: "Was the UNE Triennial Review Worth the Wait? Part 1: The Process," by Adam Thierer, August 29, 2003.
• Issue #56: "The Day the Music Died," by Stan Liebowitz, August 21, 2003.
• Issue #55: "The Subsidized Soapbox: Senator McCain's Free Airtime for Politicians Bill," by Adam Thierer and John Samples, August 18, 2003.
• Issue #54: "What Media Monopolies?" by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., July 30, 2003.
• Issue #53: "Cable Rates and Consumer Value," by Adam Thierer, July 25, 2003.
• Issue #52: "Regulating Video Games: Must Government Mind Our Children?" by Adam Thierer, June 24, 2003.
• Issue #51: "The Media Ownership Debate: Who Are the Real Media Masters?" by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., June 16, 2003.
• Issue #50: "Safeguarding Access to Internet Content: Government or Market?" by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., April 28, 2003.
• Issue #49: "Will "States' Rights" Derail Telecom Deregulation?" by Adam Thierer, March 14, 2003.
• Issue #48: "UNE-P and the Future of Telecom 'Competition'" by Adam Thierer, February 1, 2003.
• Issue #47: "Entitled to Entertainment? The Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam Thierer, January 13, 2003.
• Issue #46: "Internet Libel Ruling: Talk About a Kangaroo Court," by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., December 16, 2002.
• Issue #45: "The Pentagon's Total Information Awareness Project: Americans Under the Microscope?" by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., November 26, 2002.
• Issue #44: "Three Cheers for the FCC Spectrum Task Force Report," by Adam Thierer, November 21, 2002.
• Issue #43: "The Bush Administration's Broadband Policy Record," by Adam Thierer, November 11, 2002.
• Issue #42: "Microsoft: The States' Last Hurrah," by Robert A. Levy, November 5, 2002.
• Issue #41: "EchoStar-DirecTV Merger Critics Propose Infrastructure Socialism in Outer Space," by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., October 8, 2002.
• Issue #40: "How Far Can Hollywood Go to Protect Copyrights?" by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam Thierer, September 23, 2002.
• Issue #39: "The HDTV Fiasco Gets Worse: TV Set and Cable Mandates On the Way," by Adam Thierer, August 5, 2002.
• Issue #38: "190 Internet Censors? Rising Global Threats to Online Speech," by Adam Thierer, July 26, 2002.
• Issue #37: "Implications of the Supreme Court's Verizon v. FCC Decision," by Adam Thierer, May 17, 2002.
• Issue #36: "Conflict of Broadband Visions: Breaux-Nickles vs. Hollingsn," by Adam Thierer, May 10, 2002.
• Issue #35: "Just Don't Do It: The Digital Opportunities Investment Trust (DO IT) Fund," by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., May 6, 2002.
• Issue #34: "How Four FCC Rulemakings Could Finally Break the Broadband Logjam," by Adam Thierer, March 28, 2002.
• Issue #33: "Digital Divide Update: The Rhetoric Finally Matches the Reality," by Adam Thierer and Lucas Mast, February 27, 2002.
• Issue #32: "Forced Access Follies Continue: The Case of Special Access Services," by Adam Thierer, January 28, 2002.
• Issue #31: "Biometrics: Hold On, Chicken Little," by Lucas Mast, January 18, 2002.
• Issue #30: "Liquor Ads on TV: Is Federal Regulation Brewing?" by Adam Thierer, December 20, 2001.
• Issue #29: "The Tauzin-Dingell Bill and the National Academy of Sciences Broadband Study: Calls for Broadband Freedom," by Adam Thierer, December 14, 2001.
• Issue #28: "The EchoStar-DirecTV Merger: Antitrust Folly Reaches Outer Space," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam Thierer, December 5, 2001.
• Issue #27: "Why "Fair" Competition Fails in the Telephone Industry: The Case of Wavelength Services," by Lawrence Gasman, November 26, 2001.
• Issue #26: "The Digital TV Transition: The Fairy Tale Continues," by Adam Thierer, November 9, 2001.
• Issue #25: "Closing the Net Tax Debate (Part 3): Taxing Digital Downloads," by Aaron Lukas, October 17, 2001.
• Issue #24: "Anonymity in America: Does National Security Preclude It?" by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam Thierer, October 11, 2001.
• Issue #23: "Closing the Net Tax Debate (Part 2): Identifying the Real Sales Tax Drain," by Adam Thierer, October 5, 2001.
• Issue #22: "Closing the Net Tax Debate (Part 1): The Myth of the Level Playing Field," by Aaron Lukas, October 5, 2001.
• Issue #21: "National ID Cards: New Technologies, Same Bad Idea," by Adam Thierer, September 28, 2001.
• Issue #20: "Cyber-Surveillance in the Wake of 9/11," by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., September 18, 2001.
• Issue #19: "Trespass in Cyberspace: Whose Ether Is It Anyway?" by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., September 10, 2001.
• Issue #18: "Is the Internet Bad for Democracy?" by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., August 31, 2001.
• Issue #17: "Structural Separation of the Bells - An Idea Whose Time Has Passed," by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., August 20, 2001.
• Issue #16: "Musical Mandates: Must the Pop Music Industry Submit to Compulsory Licensing?" by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., August 15, 2001.
• Issue #15: "The Feds Want To Write Your Software," by D. T. Armentano, August 6, 2001.
• Issue #14: "Broadband Tax Credits: The High-Tech Pork Barrel Begins," by Adam Thierer, July 13, 2001.
• Issue #13: "The Microsoft Decision - Part 2 of 2: Prospects for the Company, Implications for Antitrust," by Robert A. Levy, July 11, 2001.
• Issue #12: "The Microsoft Decision - Part 1 of 2: The Appeal Ends, The Trial Resumes," by Robert A. Levy, July 11, 2001.
• Issue #11: "New Wind in the Sails of the Censorship Crusade?" by Adam Thierer, July 6, 2001.
• Issue #10: "When Rights Collide: Principles to Guide the Intellectual Property Debate," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam Thierer, June 4, 2001.
• Issue #9: "Two Bizarre and Backward Ideas for Broadband Deployment," by Adam Thierer, May 23, 2001.
• Issue #8: "Beware of the Cellular Keystone Cops," by Adam Thierer, May 9, 2001.
•Issue #7: "Avoiding a Net Tax Cartel Catastrophe," by Aaron Lukas and Adam Thierer, May 3, 2001.
• Issue #6: "Will Congress Ever Deregulate Broadband?" by Adam D. Thierer, May 1, 2001.
• Issue #5: "Maintaining Order on the Internet," by Lucas Mast, April 26, 2001.
• Issue #4: "Solving America's Spectrum Crisis," by Adam D. Thierer, April 18, 2001.
• Issue #3: "One Internet Is Not Enough," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., April 11, 2001.
• Issue #2: "The "Gore Tax" Finds a Friend: George W. Bush," by Adam Thierer, April 6, 2001.
• Issue #1: "The Libertarian Vision for Telecom and High-Technology," by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., April 3, 2001.