David J. Bier President Trump once quipped, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Well, he wasn’t standing in the…
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Jeffrey Miron From recent research: Neoliberalism and globalization are two distinct yet interrelated processes that began to spread across the world in the 1970s and 1980s. Neoliberalism aims to limit…
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Neal McCluskey The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores are out, and as Colleen Hroncich has discussed, they are not good, with record-low performance for twelfth graders, the…
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Jeffrey A. Singer For several years, state and local governments have imposed high “sin” taxes on cigarette packs, aiming to motivate smokers to quit for economic reasons. As is happening in…
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Mike Fox “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become…
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Colleen Hroncich When states enact school choice policies that allow funding to follow students to educational options beyond their assigned district school, opponents often claim there is no accountability outside…
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Adam N. Michel The US tax code is highly progressive. Official US Treasury estimates show that the top 10 percent of income earners pay more than 60 percent of all…
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Timothy Sandefur Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was born enslaved in Maryland, escaped, and rose to become a journalist, author, orator, diplomat, bank president, and civil rights leader. A self-made man, he…
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Ilya Somin In W.M.M. v. Trump, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (AEA) as a…
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Chris Edwards A recent Wall Street Journal article found that there are 1,135 billionaires in the United States. The piece focused on how much wealth billionaires hold but told us…