Marc Joffe and Krit Chanwong California Governor Gavin Newsom’s proposed 2024–2025 budget includes a provision to raise taxes on the state’s Medicaid‐managed care providers. This proposed provider tax...
Jeffrey Miron US higher education has been much in the news lately, and not in a good way. The growing polarization and acrimony, moreover, seem likely to get...
Eugene Gholz Last night’s US/British strike against Houthi military targets in Yemen escalated operations to protect shipping in the Red Sea from an expensive and wasteful defensive...
Jack Solowey and Jennifer J. Schulp After a decade of intransigence, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday finally approved the first Bitcoin ETFs, exchange traded funds...
Michael Chapman Argentine president Javier Milei was sworn into office on December 10. In the last thirty days or so, the libertarian economist has consolidated eighteen government...
Jeffrey A. Singer The state and local revolt against the federal “crack house” statute (21 U.S.C. Sec. 856), which makes it federally illegal to establish and operate...
David J. Bier President Biden is asking Congress for $13.6 billion to fund border enforcement operations, a significant portion of which will go to Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
Walter Olson “Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity,” was The Hill’s headline. “U.S. president could have a rival assassinated and not be criminally...
Travis Fisher Offshore wind is one of the most expensive ways to generate electricity. It’s also a perennial favorite when politicians mandate a preferred electricity source. Time and again,...
Ian Vásquez James D. Gwartney (1940–2024). Economist James Gwartney passed away at age 83 on Sunday. He was a prolific academic, a colleague (he was an adjunct scholar at...