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It's election year again and with it comes a look at campaign financing and efforts to reform it. Violation of free speech? Limitation on citizens' power? How can we really clean up Washington and promote political equality?

Obesity in America has become cover-story news and with it goofy lawsuits blaming fast-food retailers for fatness and poor health. Courts may not like police breaking into bedrooms - but what about invading the privacy of our kitchens and restaurants?

Executing innocents in Illinois won't happen, thanks to the Governor's moratorium on the death penalty in his state. Advances in biotechnology and forensic science are able to prove innocence -- and confirm guilt -- by taking second looks at old DNA evidence in criminal cases across the country. The authors are pioneers and heros who present a real-life legal thriller!

Almost everyone shares the goal of having a cleaner, healthier planet but strategies and tactics for achieving that goal range widely. Oftentimes, bad science, skewed facts, and scare tactics are used to drive public opinion and public policy that actually defeat the goal. "The Skeptical Environmentalist should be read by every environmentalist, so that the appalling errors of fact the environment movement have made in the past are not repeated. A brilliant and powerful book." -- Matt Ridley, author of Genome

Turn on the evening news and you'll see terminally-ill patients in California watch as federal agents rip their life-saving herb from the ground, even though their state has approved marijuana for medical purposes. This is one of the nation's hottest controversies, and respected-journalist Alan Bock covers the history of medical marijuana (from 1500 B.C.!) and the movement to legalize this natural and effective drug.

Were the "witches" of Inquisition times possessed by the devil or mentally ill? Would either label justify depriving them of their rights, by state or church? Szasz shares the history of religious and psychiatric scapegoating and shows how liberties are threatened today.

How much privacy have we already lost? And how much more are we willing to lose in the quest for security? Sykes traces the roots of privacy in our nation's founding, offers horrific examples of government's invasion of citizens' privacy, and suggests how we might recover lost territory and maintain what's left.

There is much to be learned from the history of popular movements to protest, reform, overthrow, and transform governments and societies using nonviolent methods. The moral case as well as practical strategies and tactics for achieving change without violence are presented here.

Despite progress for liberty on some fronts, government has become more menacing than ever, with discretionary power to seize one's home, car, bank account, and other property. The Feds can invoke any one of hundreds of federal statutes and have, resulting in an increase in federal seizures of property under forfeiture laws of over 2,500% since 1979. Bovard shares the horror stories and sets forth a passionate indictment of the state's coercive powers over its citizens.