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Marc Joffe and Krit Chanwong Federal reforms in 2025 may give states both the flexibility and incentives they need to rein in spiraling Medicaid...
Jeffrey Miron For most goods and services, governments leave the production, distribution, sale, and consumption decisions to private individuals or groups. For gambling, however,...
Eric Gomez and Benjamin Faber In October 2024, Congress received notification of two new arms sales for Taiwan, and the Ministry of National Defense...
Colleen Hroncich Project-based learning sounds great … until you realize you have to find or create the projects for your learners. That’s where Rock...
Chris Edwards State and local subsidies and narrow tax breaks for businesses are growing. These benefits—called incentives—include grants, loans, tax credits, and tax exemptions...
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Standard economic reasoning suggests that prohibitions reduce the production and consumption of the outlawed good or activity. Penalties for...
Walter Olson In a pair of cases decided within weeks of each other in 2022, federal judges ruled that private schools’ tax‐exempt status under section...
Nicholas Anthony Under the Biden administration, the government has launched an all‐out “war on junk fees.” This “war” has covered fees charged by airlines,...
Colleen Hroncich Jeana Wilson didn’t plan to get into education. But her daughter has special needs that her local school district wasn’t able to...
Erec Smith Recently, the University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted, unanimously, to divert money from its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)...
Travis Fisher Disclaimer: I served as a staff economist at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2006 to 2013 and as a commissioner adviser from 2018 to...
Neal McCluskey and Colleen Hroncich On May 17, 1954, something necessary but not sufficient for American liberty happened: The US Supreme Court struck down...
Clark Neily “I have a theory: Qualified immunity has already been bitten by one of the walkers in the Walking Dead, and it’s in the...
Nicholas Anthony Governments around the world are weighing whether to launch central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs. But are CBDCs even a good idea? That...