Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

JUNE 8, 2013 PRIVACY The Right to Evade Regulation Tim Wu chronicles the disturbing ways that corporations use First Amendment protections to evade regulations and campaign finance restrictions. "Once the patron saint of protesters and the disenfranchised, the First Amendment has become the darling of economic libertarians and corporate lawyers who have recognized its power to immunize private enterprise from legal restraint. It is tempting to call it the new nuclear option for undermining regulation, except that its deployment is shockingly routine," he writes.  BY TIM WU BIG BROTHER  Show Me the Memo  Obama should share his legal justification for collecting Verizon's phone records.                                    BY JEFFREY ROSEN RELIGION The Amish Are Getting Fracked As oil companies scramble to dominate the hydrofracturing hotbeds of Pennsylvania and Ohio, their agents have taken to exploiting an Amish prohibition of lawsuits. The Amish farmers, however, are finally figuring out how to fight back.                                    BY MOLLY REDDEN CRIME The Most Dangerous Job in the World Saul Elbein reports from Guatemala City on the capital's terrifying recent crime wave: the wholesale murder and extortion of the city's bus drivers. "By this point, driving a bus in Guatemala had become one of the most dangerous jobs in the world: 156 drivers had been killed in the previous year, and 550 total since killings started—a wave of bus terror on a Middle Eastern scale. Driving an urbano bus had become—and remains—far more lethal than infamously dangerous jobs like logging or deep-sea fishing."                                    BY SAUL ELBEIN POLITICS Un-Rigging the Rate-Shock Debate Obamacare critics are claiming that the law unfairly burdens healthy young men with higher premiums than they would otherwise pay. Jonathan Cohn disagrees.                                    BY JONATHAN COHN