The Case for Letting Medicare Bureaucrats Haggle With Drug Makers
Medicare's new price-setting process for drug purchases is better than its current one if the result is lower government spending.
Medicare's new price-setting process for drug purchases is better than its current one if the result is lower government spending.
A Chicago sandwich shop's survival depends on cutting through red tape.
This progress has been widely shared, to the great benefit of the people at the bottom of the distribution.
For five decades, drugs have been winning the war on drugs.
The Colorado governor finds common ground with many libertarians. But does he really stand for more freedom?
Applicants are currently waiting 10 to 13 weeks for routine processing.
The guidelines would ignore decades of academic findings about how firm concentration can have a positive impact on consumers' welfare.
Plus: Why don't journalists support free speech anymore?
Even if background check applicants are guilty of wrongdoing, imposing lifetime bans on gainful employment is not a good policy.
Players can experience for themselves how difficult, expensive, and exhausting it is to come to the country legally.
For five decades, the agency has destroyed countless lives while targeting Americans for personal choices and peaceful transactions.
We once ranked No. 4 in the world, according to the Heritage Foundation. Now we're 25th.
A new Cato Institute report highlights just how hard it is to come to the U.S. legally.
"All the time we hear socialists say, 'Next time, we'll get it right.' How many next times do you get?"
More than two years after legalizing recreational use, the state has just a dozen licensed retailers.
Maurice Jimmerson has spent 10 years in jail awaiting trial for a 2013 murder charge.
The Missouri senator is once again pursuing misguided tech regulation.
Staffing shortages and laughably out-of-date technology in the federal government's air traffic control system are leading to a lot more flight delays.
Oregon liquor regulators were caught diverting prized whiskey for personal use.
Until 2004, all foreign workers could renew their visas without leaving the United States.
Under Walensky, the CDC's voluntary guidance was anything but.
Steven Hedrick rents out roll-off dumpsters to people and hauls them away after. A new city ordinance is mandating that people use county services instead.
Plus: Divides over misinformation, on free markets and social justice, and more…
In 2013, Maurice Jimmerson was charged with murder. Ten years later, he's still languishing in a Dougherty County jail, awaiting trial.
Officials who often get it wrong can’t be trusted to reliably decree what’s true.
It'll be another five years before it's operational.
COVID-era problems are partially to blame, but so are outdated government practices.
If a municipality fails to approve or deny a permit by state-set deadlines, developers could hire private third parties to get the job done.
College players on student visas face complex barriers when it comes to profiting off their names, images, and likenesses.
Today, TikTok. Tomorrow, who knows?
Foreign-born tech workers in the U.S. have been especially vulnerable as tech giants lay off large shares of their work forces.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like the recent trend of rising administrative bloat is going to reverse anytime soon.
It would result in shortages, decreases in productivity, and higher production costs affecting millions of American workers and nearly every consumer.
Lawmakers are considering giving state officials the ability to rewrite NIMBY cities' restrictive zoning codes.
Department of Homeland Security
Break it up into fewer, smaller agencies that are more accountable to pre-9/11 departments.
Maryland bars and restaurants have a tendency to turn away vertical ID holders. But there's no state law mandating this.
D.C. is destroying its thriving cannabis industry with bureaucracy and red tape.
It's a threat to our fundamental rights, but courts refuse to change their approach.
Many Democrats and Republicans were outraged when Trump and Biden respectively were found with classified documents. But both sides are missing the point.
People can never be made incorruptible. We can, however, design governmental systems filled with checks and balances that limit the temptations.
The L.A. City Council saw a good thing happening and decided government wasn't involved enough.
Election betting markets are often more reliable than pundits. Did the site steal user funds? No. Did they lie to people? No. Harm anyone? No.
A new proposal to more than triple visa entry fees for performers will harm American audiences and culture.
The actual total is probably higher according to the Government Accountability Office's new report.
The governor would let developers route around local zoning codes and get housing projects approved directly by state officials.
When I was young, I assumed government would lift people out of poverty. But those policies often do more harm than good.
The year’s highlights in buck passing feature petulant politicians, brazen bureaucrats, careless cops, loony lawyers, and junky journalists.
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