Policy
Bad Policies Are Their Own Worst Enemy
Most people don't spend much time thinking about government policies, which is why bad ones can persist for years or decades.
The Secret History of the Telephone Network
The public utility model of telecommunications was not as inevitable as it seems today.
4 Reasons to be Pissed Off About Social Security and Medicare
These entitlement programs take money from the young and poor and give to the old and rich.
In Detroit, Democracy Isn't Worth Saving—Privatize It All
There's a great case to be made that large swaths of the city should be turned over to private individuals with better ideas and management skills.
'Corporate Money' Leads to Life-Saving Medical Discoveries
Activists obsessed with "conflict of interest" in science make life more difficult for doctors, and for patients who want cures.
Kids, Turn in Your Federally-Funded Laptops for Imminent Destruction
They should Google "what the road to hell is paved with."
Rand Paul Tries to Limit the State's License to Steal
The Kentucky senator's forfeiture reform bill would curtail legal theft.
No Justice at Harvard: Accused Students Don't Get Attorneys, Cross-Examination
Alumni could be called to participate in due-process-free trials for years to come.
Is Campbell Brown Too 'Pretty' to File a Historic Lawsuit That Would Make It Easier to Fire Lousy Teachers in New York?
How teachers unions and their defenders are reacting to the latest anti-tenure lawsuit.
Obamacare Means What Obamacare Says
The most obvious legal interpretation of the health law is the plain meaning of its legislative language.
Conservatives Should Resurrect Reagan's Foreign Policy
Rick Perry likes to speculate what the Gipper would do, but he should look at what he DID do.
A Lethal Injection of Reality
Medicalizing executions helps maintain support for the death penalty.
Lessons from the Death of the Aussie Carbon Tax
Putting economies on an energy diet is not the way to fight climate change.
Kids or Criminals? Preschool Suspended a 3-Year-Old… Five Times
If there's any good news on this front, it's that the absurdity of many of these stories has prompted something of a backlash.
A Luxury Manhattan Building To Include a Separate 'Poor Door' for Less Affluent Tenants. Is It 'Segregation'?
New York's clownish political leaders are in a tizzy.
The Case for Just War Theory
It's time for our foreign policy to return to first principles.
Paul Ryan's Poverty Plan: Good on Incarceration, Licensing, Perverse Incentives; Not So Good on Paternalism
What's worthwhile in the Wisconsin congressman's proposals, and what's not
