Jeffrey Miron For most goods and services, governments leave the production, distribution, sale, and consumption decisions to private individuals or groups. For gambling, however,...
Eric Gomez and Benjamin Faber In October 2024, Congress received notification of two new arms sales for Taiwan, and the Ministry of National Defense...
Colleen Hroncich Project-based learning sounds great … until you realize you have to find or create the projects for your learners. That’s where Rock...
Jeffrey A. Singer When the California legislature passed a bipartisan bill one month ago that would decriminalize possessing and personally using certain plant‐based psychedelic drugs,...
David Boaz Authoritarian—and not just authoritarian—governments typically see national history as an important way to shore up support for the regime. China is probably...
Neal McCluskey and Mustafa Akyol We are in the midst of Banned Books Week. A creation of many groups, including publishers, librarians, and booksellers, the...
Marc Joffe Two recent developments reinforce the case against new, large government‐run rail projects. These initiatives are usually a bad deal for taxpayers given their...
Adam N. Michel Interest rates on 10‐year Treasury bonds recently surpassed 4.7 percent after not exceeding 3.1 percent in the decade before 2022. Rising...
Norbert Michel The United Auto Workers announced it’s expanding the strike against General Motors and Ford today, just three days after Politico’s story about...
Alan Reynolds “Soaring Bond Yields Threaten Fed Goal of a Soft Landing” is the headline of a front‐page Wall Street Journal story by Nick Timiraos, who...