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Newsom Believes the Globe Is Getting Hotter Even as California Freezes
Pro-abortion governor heads to the Vatican for a ‘climate resilience’ conference.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  May 13, 2024
Why Are Economists MIA on Today’s Biggest Fiscal Catastrophes?
Burton A. Abrams  ·  May 13, 2024
Getting Monetary Policy Back on Track
Judy L. Shelton  ·  May 8, 2024
A Missed Off-Ramp for U.S. Venezuela Policy
American sanctions keep backfiring, so why do we keep using them?
Ivan Eland  ·  May 8, 2024
Arizona Should Not Look to California for Housing Solutions
Christopher J. Calton  ·  May 8, 2024
Biden FCC Threatens Free Speech by Restoring Internet Regulations
Regulations for net “neutrality” stifle choice and innovation.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  May 3, 2024
Renters Are the Biggest Losers in Kentucky’s New Registration Law
Abigail R. Hall  ·  May 3, 2024
Class War in California
Punishing students because their parents are too successful is unfair and unwise.
Jonathan J. Bean  ·  May 1, 2024
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona Pursues Predatory Actions
The department should have never existed in the first place.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  April 29, 2024
California Loses Nearly 10,000 Fast-Food Jobs After $20 Minimum Wage Signed Last Fall
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  April 26, 2024
Will Caitlin Clark Be Grossly Underpaid?
Art Carden  ·  April 25, 2024
Israel Can Still Drag the US into War with Iran
The tit-for-tat has ended for now, but Benjamin Netanyahu has many incentives to continue goading Tehran
Ivan Eland  ·  April 24, 2024
ATF Redefines ‘Engaged in the Business’
Agency pushes the envelope to require gun dealer licenses beyond the statute.
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  April 23, 2024
Supreme Court Hands the ‘Pillage’ People a Loss
The High Court takes umbrage at governments’ excessive real estate fees.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  April 22, 2024
The Age of the Lazy American
High taxes, a focus on identity, and an aging population amount to a War on Work.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  April 22, 2024
The FTC Again Fails to Protect Consumers
William F. Shughart II  ·  April 22, 2024
The Latest Plan to Exacerbate California’s Housing Crisis
Lawrence J. McQuillan  ·  April 19, 2024
Resolving Border Crisis Requires Increasing Legal Migration
Benjamin Powell  ·  April 18, 2024
Why Can’t San Francisco Build Housing? Lessons from the 1906 Fire
Christopher J. Calton  ·  April 16, 2024
K-12 Parents Need Same Choices as College Athletes
Like college scholarships, education dollars should flow to students’ parents, not government bureaucracies.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  April 15, 2024
California Has Lost 410,000 Jobs. With a New Bill, More Could Be on the Way Out.
Lee E. Ohanian  ·  April 15, 2024
DEI Cronyism and Woke Grifters
How odd it is that America is wasting billions of dollars hiring DEI czars and electing woke politicians, who so often accuse others of a multitude of sins, largely as a way of enriching themselves.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  April 15, 2024
Russian Self-Destruction Helps America
Putin has gone from a flirtation with free-market capitalism to increasingly authoritarian kleptomania.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  April 12, 2024
The Middleman Is a Public Servant
Art Carden  ·  April 11, 2024
Tilting at Antitrust Windmills: Department of Justice Sues Apple
The DOJ ignores consumers’ choices in favor of indulging the preferences of bureaucrats.
William F. Shughart II  ·  April 11, 2024


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