Adam N. Michel Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign recently confirmed that she supports all the nearly $5 trillion in tax increases included in President Biden’s 2025 budget...
Jeffrey A. Singer A paper published in the journal Harm Reduction in June by Arielle Selya, PhD argues against the “gateway” hypothesis that nicotine-vaping prohibitionists like to...
Chris Edwards State legislative sessions have wrapped up for the year, and taxpayers have once again gained ground. Budget surpluses are prompting many states to cut taxes....
Jeffrey Miron Policies that subsidize or mandate family leave aim to reduce the gender pay gap, shrink the “child penalty,” and otherwise promote success for women in...
Alex Nowrasteh The Mississippi Office of the State Auditor released a report that purports to show that illegal immigrants impose a cost of over $100 million on...
Ryan Bourne Note: This is an excerpt from my book The War on Prices, made all the more relevant by Kamala Harris’s promise to introduce a federal...
Romina Boccia It’s tempting to believe that Social Security is an “earned benefit”—after all, that’s a prevalent idea we’ve been sold for decades, and it feels good...
Deirdre N. McCloskey On July 25, more than four years after the emergence of COVID-19 and the authoritarian reaction to it by the state, the once-annual debate...
Adam N. Michel At the end of 2017, Republicans cut the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent as part of a larger package...
Gene Healy The other week, I did some get-off-my lawn grumbling about “libertarians these days.” When Donald Trump came down that escalator, I suggested, he didn’t just scramble...