Biden Administration Deflects Blame on America's Self-Inflicted Ocean Shipping Problems
Guess whose fault it is that it’s so expensive to ship goods to America? (Spoiler: The U.S. government's.)
Competition
If This Is How America COMPETES, We're Going to Lose
Plus: College students and speech, state-funded pre-K fail, and more...
Biden Blames Government's Economic Failures on Big Business
Plus: A free speech win for Florida professors, why Dutch museums are becoming hair salons, and more...
Anti-Tech Antitrust Bill Draws Criticism From All Sides
Plus: CBD could prevent COVID-19, gun owner privacy is at risk in California, and more...
Bipartisan 'Innovation and Choice Online Act' Would Harm Innovation and Choice
In the name of fostering innovation and choice, the bill would accomplish neither.
Food Trucks Still Being Squeezed Out by Local Governments
Detroit leaders throw around words like "fairness" and "equity" while shielding big restaurants from smaller competition.
Anti-Amazon Congressman Appears Unfamiliar with the Concept of Store Brands
Amazon promotes products that mimic its competition? Welcome to more than a century of American retail practices.
FTC Drills Alabama Licensing Board for Anti-Competitive Scheme Targeting Teledentistry
The FTC challenged a licensing scheme that it says limited consumer choice and excluded new providers.
Rather Than Eliminating a Terrible Cruise Ship Law, Alaska's Lawmakers Just Want To Exempt Their Ports
How obsolete, cronyist regulations force domestic cruise ships into foreign stops
Unlicensed Dog Grooming Alarms Local News Reporter
Do we really need the state to step in over an unfortunate tragedy?
Joe Biden's Executive Order on 'Promoting Competition' Covers Everything From Farmers Markets to Net Neutrality
Plus: Treating social media platforms as common carriers, Norway criminalizes sneaky influencer editing, and more...
Tim Wu, Biden's New Tech Guru, Is Deeply Wrong About What Makes the Internet Great
In many professional arenas, Wu's swings and misses would have consequences. In Wu's case, it landed him an advisory role in the Biden administration.
Is Microsoft 'Out To Get Conservatives'? And Is That Jim Jordan's Business?
Plus: Biden to back bill ending crack/cocaine sentencing disparity, the truth about tech startup creation, and more...
Ohio Seeks To Declare Google a Public Utility
Plus: How Facebook killed blogging, the trouble with so-called common good originalism, and more...
Facebook Restores News Links in Australia After Getting Some Concessions
Big outlets get subsidies. The government still gets to pick winners and losers.
Everybody's Wrong About the Facebook/Murdoch Standoff in Australia
This tech/media fight down under is not about democracy or monopolies. It’s about ad revenue.
What a Frozen Cherry Pie Says About FDA Regulatory Foot-Dragging
It took 15 years for the agency to decide that consumers didn’t actually need to be protected from the threat of substandard fruit desserts.
Big Tech Is Just the Beginning: House Dems Seek Major Changes to Antitrust Law
Enforcement is supposed to be about protecting "consumer welfare." Overturning that goal would be bad for all of us.
Democrats Sharpen Tech Antitrust Messaging at Historic House Hearing
This isn't a debate about consumer needs. It's all about political control.
This Health Care Law Bars Competition And Drives Up Prices, Even as a Pandemic Rages
During COVID-19, many states have rolled back their “certificate of need” laws. Now is the time to abolish them.
FDA Backs Away From Absurd 'Skim Milk' Legal Fight
Dairy industry-endorsed regulations required skim milk to be labeled as “imitation” if it hadn’t been enriched with added vitamins.
Good Riddance to the Roman Empire
Maybe Rome needed to disintegrate before the West could grow wealthy.
Michigan Lawmakers Overturn a Bad Regulation Restricting Access to Cancer Treatments
They should scrap other Certificate of Need laws too.
When the Government Creates Mandatory Shortages
Don’t let regulators and their cronies suppress competition.
Stossel: Government Bans Ambulance Competition
35 states have laws that let established businesses block new businesses. This hurts consumers.
Michigan Health Care Regulators Just Restricted Access to Promising New Cancer Treatments
The state's largest hospital chain didn't want the competition.
States Take Antitrust Aim at Big Tech
Everybody’s going after Google and Facebook. But how do you prove they’re harming consumers?
California Has Completely Crapped the Bed Rolling Out Legal Marijuana
The black market still dominates. And more enforcement and fines aren’t going to fix it.
The New Trustbusters Are Coming for Big Tech
Left and right are joining forces under the banner of “hipster antitrust.”
Anti-Tech Wave Grows with New Justice Department Antitrust Efforts
Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook are all in the federal government’s crosshairs.
Federal Hospital Regulations Are a Competition-Killing Mess. A New Bill Promises To Fix That.
Consolidation in hospital markets is one cause of rising healthcare costs.
Will Antitrust Action Against Big Tech Resolve Anything?
Being a big company is not a crime. What problem are we trying to fix?
Court Upholds Baltimore's Cronyist Rules Limiting Food Trucks
The ruling says it's acceptable for cities to use ordinances to protect some businesses from competitors.
Illinois' Top Court Blesses Chicago's Cronyist Anti-Food-Truck Regulations
Restaurateurs get protection from small competitors. It’s the citizens who lose out on delicious food choices.
The European Union Wants to Control the Internet—and You
How a risk-averse bureaucracy across the ocean may decide what you say and do online.
Why Does Maryland Hate Airbnb?
Home sharing competes with hotels, of course, but it's not a zero-sum game. Hosts on platforms like Airbnb are responsive to market conditions.
If You Can Afford a Plane Ticket, Thank Deregulation
Forty years after the Civil Aeronautics Board was abolished, look how far we've come.
Scott Gottlieb Is Not a Free Market Firebrand
The FDA chief's mixed, moderate record has surprised both his champions and his critics.
Food Trucks Still Under Attack from Regulators
Some cities have warmed to them, but protectionist policies still oppress.
L.A.'s New Trash Cartels Are Exactly the Dumpster Fire Critics Warned About
Exclusive city-mandated monopolies lead to sky-high prices and crappy service. Who could have predicted it?
More Food Trucks May Be Coming to Your Baltimore Neighborhood
A judge suspends oppressive city regulations as too vague, but the fight's probably not over.
California Enacts Likely Ineffective Drug Price Transparency Law
What will really keep drug (and any other) prices lower? Competition.
How Dentists Use Their Political Clout to Limit Competition
Dental therapists can provide access to more care, but the American Dental Association keeps trying to stop them.
Are Terrible State Alcohol Laws on the Way Out?
A South Carolina Supreme Court decision rejects rules based on economic protectionism.
The FDA Commissioner's Novel Plan for Cutting Drug Prices: Competition
Make pharmaceutical competition great again.
A Baby Dies in Virginia
The lethal consequences of a common, obscure hospital licensing law
