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When Gavin Met Donnie: Debate Continues over Disastrous California Wildfire
California is still shrink-wrapped in climate change superstition.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  February 1, 2025
Don’t Substitute Tariffs for Income Taxes: You’ll Get Both
David R. Henderson, Phillip W. Magness  ·  January 29, 2025
A Buckeye Collegiate Revolution: Higher Education Reform Bill Likely to Pass Senate
Richard K. Vedder  ·  January 28, 2025
Dr. Anthony Fauci: What Exactly Did Biden Pardon?
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 23, 2025
Do Ivy League Degrees Matter for Leadership Success?
Richard K. Vedder  ·  January 22, 2025
The Strange Convergence of Donald Trump and Martin Luther King Jr.
Jonathan J. Bean  ·  January 21, 2025
Assessing the Biden Presidency
John C. Goodman  ·  January 21, 2025
Is Trump Really Going to Practice Military Restraint?
Ivan Eland  ·  January 20, 2025
Trump Sentencing: Judicial System Again Defers to the Imperial Presidency
Ivan Eland  ·  January 20, 2025
Don’t Put Coal on Ice
William F. Shughart II  ·  January 18, 2025
Not Our Democracy, but Our Constitution
William J. Watkins, Jr.  ·  January 18, 2025
Action Could Have Prevented the Deadly Blaze in Los Angeles
But the lessons of the past seem lost on California politicians and bureaucrats.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 17, 2025
Perhaps Only Donald Trump Can Resolve the Immigration ‘Problem’
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  January 17, 2025
Supreme Court Relists Two Second Amendment Cases
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  January 16, 2025
Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California
California’s DEI “humanism” and Green New Deal environmentalism ensured the cruelest imaginable treatment of thousands of people and unrivaled destruction of the natural ecosystem.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  January 14, 2025
Circuit Conflict in Felon Gun Ban Cases
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  January 14, 2025
How to Cut Trillions in Wasteful Health Care Spending
John C. Goodman  ·  January 13, 2025
Carter’s Legacy Lives on in Ways People Might Not Expect
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 9, 2025
Supreme Court Considering Arms Ban Petitions on January 10th
Whatever happened to long guns good, handguns bad?
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  January 9, 2025
Newsom’s Energy Czar Returns
Ana Matosantos once again dips her unqualified toe in energy policy waters.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 8, 2025
Reevaluating Jimmy Carter’s Presidency
Did the thirty-ninth president’s domestic and foreign policy successes outweigh his more well-publicized failures?
Ivan Eland  ·  January 6, 2025
Can We Have Health Care without Health Insurance Companies?
John C. Goodman  ·  January 5, 2025
Dr. Fauci Doubles Down
Former NIAID director now claims that AIDS, like COVID, was “zoonotic.”
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 4, 2025
Jimmy Carter: A Decent Man, a Damaging Education Policy
Richard K. Vedder  ·  January 4, 2025
What Today’s Economics Students Aren’t Learning about Economics
Alexander William Salter  ·  January 2, 2025


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