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March 14, 2025
The War on Prices

DOGE: Efficiency Requires Elimination
Fail to “eliminate” many of the non-essential programs or goals and you’ll end up with a host of inefficiency baked in, not least because the federal government currently has so many competing aims.
By Ryan Bourne
March 12, 2025
USA Today

CDC Causes Patients to Endure Needless Pain and Suffering. Kennedy Can Help.
An agency that takes on too many responsibilities can end up doing none of them well.
By Jeffrey A. Singer and Josh Bloom
March 12, 2025
Law & Liberty

Book Review: Education and Social Control
American public education has not always been liberal or benevolent, with public schools sometimes used to “Americanize” people who did not fit into the basic Anglo-Saxon mold, whether they liked it or not.
By Neal McCluskey
March 11, 2025
Forbes

The Bank Secrecy Act Regime Threatens Trump’s Crypto Progress
Crypto has helped sharpen the focus on what’s fundamentally wrong with the current financial surveillance regime and why it needs to be scrapped, thus restoring and reaffirming Americans’ Constitutional rights.
By Norbert Michel
March 3, 2025
The War on Prices

Betting Markets and the Scale of DOGE’s Challenge
Will President Trump and Elon Musk really slash government spending this year?
By Ryan Bourne
March 3, 2025
Washington Examiner

The Next Battle Against DEI Is Student Loans
There are many ways to fix the student loans so that they no longer underwrite the undermining of higher education and the nation.
By Andrew Gillen and Erec Smith
March 3, 2025
The War on Prices

Problems Supposedly Requiring Government Action
My colleague Deirdre McCloskey, back in 2018, listed over 100 economic and social problems that, through the ages, have been deemed as market imperfections, bad consequences of markets and challenges of limited government, or else failures of standard economics, that supposedly require corrective government action or at least different policies.
By Ryan Bourne
February 28, 2025
The War on Prices

Jeff Bezos and A Pro-Liberty Newspaper?
Defending personal and economic liberties remains a relatively lonely endeavor. The more voices and institutions unapologetically championing those principles the better.
By Ryan Bourne and Sophia Bagley
February 24, 2025
The Hill (Online)

Meet the House Un-American Activities Caucus
Four House GOP members are pushing Trump’s Justice Department to waste taxpayer time and money pursuing targeted groups with politically motivated, constitutionally violative witch-hunts.
By Patrick G. Eddington
February 22, 2025
Sandusky Register

Your Body, Their Rules
Medical decisions ought to be between patients and their doctors — free from government intrusion.
By Jeffrey A. Singer and Mike Fox
February 21, 2025
The Times

UK’s Digital Overreach Risks Trump’s Wrath
The US administration perceives European-style digital regulation as an affront to both American business interests and free speech.
By Ryan Bourne
February 20, 2025
Stat News

The Health Policy Cult’s Misplaced Faith in Government
The retail model is the only way to bring costs down and quality up.
By Charles Silver, David A. Hyman, and Michael F. Cannon
February 19, 2025
Reason

Surrogacy Is the New Battleground in Reproductive Freedom
Critics on both the left and the right decry surrogacy as exploitative, especially when carriers are compensated.
By Vanessa Brown Calder
February 18, 2025
Reason

DOGE Can’t Slash Government Without Congress
The federal leviathan can’t be dismantled by executive action alone. To truly cut spending and rein in the bureaucracy, the administration needs buy-in from the branch that built it.
By Gene Healy
February 17, 2025
Minding the Campus

Drunken Parties and Exotic Trips—Indirect Costs Must Be Slashed
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it is cutting indirect costs to a maximum of 15 percent. What should we make of this effort?
By Andrew Gillen