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In Los Angeles, “Squatters Have Rights, Too”
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  February 2, 2024
Remembering John Taylor of Caroline
Prophet of Encroaching Tyranny
William J. Watkins, Jr.  ·  February 1, 2024
Agency ‘Guidance,’ Interpretive Regulations, and Chevron
State and federal agencies express views that are thinly-veiled diktats.
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  February 1, 2024
The California Exodus Gets a Gag Order
According to the Los Angeles Times, people should leave “without verbally trashing the place.”
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 29, 2024
Two Cheers for the Bipartisan Tax Deal
John C. Goodman  ·  January 26, 2024
Housing Alone Cannot Solve Homelessness
Christopher J. Calton  ·  January 26, 2024
The Truth about Tariffs
Phillip W. Magness  ·  January 26, 2024
Inclusionary Zoning Would Undermine Sacramento’s Recent Housing Reforms
Christopher J. Calton  ·  January 25, 2024
The Decline in American Universities, 2011-2024
Richard K. Vedder  ·  January 25, 2024
It’s Time to Tax the Universities
Elite schools aren’t benefiting society. They shouldn’t get tax breaks.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  January 23, 2024
Javier Milei’s Free Market Revolution
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  January 23, 2024
Golden State Knocks Greed out of the Park as State Politicians Target Shohei Ohtani
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 22, 2024
No Policy Consequences Are ‘Unintended’
William F. Shughart II  ·  January 22, 2024
Travis Kelce, COVID ‘Variants,’ and the CDC Vaccine Machine
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 22, 2024
The Hysterical Style in American Politics
To enact its unpopular agendas, the progressive movement must scare the people silly and gin up chaos to destroy its perceived enemies—any crisis it can.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  January 21, 2024
What Netanyahu Can Learn from the War on Terror
The War on Terror exemplified how a state’s overreaction to an attack can cause more harm than good. Is Israel on the same path?
Ivan Eland  ·  January 19, 2024
Health Insurance Without Health Care
John C. Goodman  ·  January 19, 2024
Inflation Was Always a Monetary Phenomenon, Never Transitory
The Fed must realize that monetary policy is not about interest rates, but about the rate of growth in the money supply.
John Greenwood, OBE, Steve H. Hanke  ·  January 16, 2024
Claudine Gay: Critical Plagiarism Theory
Phillip W. Magness  ·  January 15, 2024
Fauci, Friends, and Fallout
The time has come to hold Fauci and friends fully accountable for their actions.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 15, 2024
A Message from Menem to Milei: Dollarize Argentina Now
All the talk and scribbling about the infeasibility of dollarization in Argentina is simply wrong.
Steve H. Hanke, Francisco Zalles  ·  January 11, 2024
James Gwartney Made Economics Accessible
He helped popularize free-market ideas and even brought them to post-Soviet Russia.
Robert A. Lawson, Richard K. Vedder  ·  January 9, 2024
Let Unconstitutional Federal Government Surveillance of Americans Lapse
Section 702 always has been unconstitutional; Congress should let it lapse.
Ivan Eland  ·  January 8, 2024
California’s Minimum Wage Woes Are a Cautionary Tale for the Nation
Adam B. Summers  ·  January 8, 2024
Racial Preferences Replay Under Gavin’s Governance
Invoking “research” to override law and justify unequal treatment.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  January 8, 2024


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