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Does Academic Research Advance Human Welfare? Not Always.
Comparing economic data from the early 20th century to that of the early 21st century, there is a lot of academic research that has been shown to have caused more harm than good.
Richard K. Vedder | Commentary | Dec. 13, 2024
A Great Trump Appointment: Jay Bhattacharya (Part 1)
Richard K. Vedder | Commentary | Dec. 10, 2024
Trump Should Embrace the National Space Council (Again)
Some of President Trump’s greatest successes came from effectively wielding bureaucracy, not dismantling it.
Alexander William Salter | Commentary | Dec. 5, 2024
California’s Coastal Commission Ramps Up Partisan Zealotry
From the Ocean to the Space Force
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Commentary | Oct. 17, 2024
California’s Stem Cell Bust Turns 20
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Commentary | Oct. 5, 2024
California’s Billion-Dollar Stem Cell Initiatives End in Failure
Twenty years of false promises and white coat waste.
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Commentary | Oct. 2, 2024
What’s Wrong with the Way We Pay Doctors?
John C. Goodman | Commentary | Oct. 1, 2024
Why Health Policy Problems Are Rarely Solved, Part II
John C. Goodman | Commentary | Aug. 26, 2024
Democrats Hold No Monopoly on Dalliance
K. Lloyd Billingsley | Commentary | Aug. 17, 2024
Despite California Spending $24 Billion on It Since 2019, Homelessness Increased. What Happened?
Lee E. Ohanian | Commentary | July 19, 2024






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