From the Cover
Health Care
Voice and Exit in Health Care Policy
What can we learn from the recent controversy over mandated birth control coverage?
Briefly Noted
Features
Entitlements
Reforming SSDI
The program’s looming insolvency provides an opportunity to encourage beneficiaries to rejoin the workforce.
Restoring Social Security Disability’s Purpose
Does the decisionmaking process serve the purposes of the program?
Law
Returning to the True Spirit of the First Amendment
The Supreme Court can provide consistent and principled protection to the right to speak.
Regulatory Reform
Toward a New and Improved Regulatory Apparatus
Could a new review agency improve federal regulation?
Energy & Environment
An EPA War on Coal?
New federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.
The High Cost of Low‐Value Wind Power
Subsidized wind generates the least amount of power when it is most needed.
Insurance
How Insurance Substitutes for Regulation
Through private contracting, insurers monitor safety in ways that government can’t.