Politics
Why Does Keynesian Success Feel Like Failure?
The most terrible thing about the bailouts is that they worked.
The Balanced-Budget Amendment Delusion
A balanced budget amendment won't halt the growth of big government
Eminent Domain Reform Is a Bipartisan Opportunity
Eminent domain laws are bad for property rights and social justice alike
William Niskanen on Cutting Taxes and Shrinking Big Government
Reason's 1978 interview with the late libertarian economist
What Part of Deficit Reduction Does Congress Not Understand?
If members of Congress can't find $1.2 trillion to cut in 10 years, the only reason is they aren't serious.
Passing the Purse
Congress can't delegate fiscal policy, but it can balance the budget without raising taxes.
Weathering Man-Made Climate Change
Poverty, not global warming, is the cause of death and destruction in the face of extreme weather.
Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar Shows That Hunger for More Power Corrupts
J. Edgar Hoover's Fetish for Authority Was More Worrisome Than His Apocryphal Sexual Hangups
Virginia Dems Try to Thwart the Will of the People
Democrats might have good arguments for insisting that the Senate GOP share power, but "the will of the people" is not one of them
The Simpletons
David Brooks, Thomas L. Friedman, and the banal authoritarianism of do-something punditry