Stephen Slivinski and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler Housing policy reform is tricky. Getting policy changes off the ground in the first place can be difficult and compliance after enactment may not be…

Alfredo Carrillo Obregon and Scott Lincicome On March 6, President Donald Trump exempted Canadian and Mexican imports that enter the US free of duty under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) from the…

Jeffrey A. Singer As Josh Bloom and I wrote last November, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) imposed onerous requirements on health care providers prescribing the effective drug clozapine to…

Colleen Hroncich Remote pandemic schooling wasn’t working for her second-grade daughter, so Rebecca Simmons decided it was a good time to start homeschooling. “I was supplementing her work anyway,” she…

Most modern Americans cannot conceive of states seceding from the US, but in 1860, the majority of the people believed secession was both legal and moral and saw the Constitution…

Great Britain‘s Labour government, since coming into power last year, has taken a number of measures that already are resulting in lowering the nation’s standard of living.

Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Much debate exists about whether the US tax and transfer system unfairly benefits wealthy people at the expense of ordinary Americans. For example, Democratic members…

Michael F. Cannon A congressional staffer recently asked about the performance of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA). Since 1992, PDUFA has…

The great French economist Frederic Bastiat wrote that we should not look just at the visible results of government economic intervention, but also the good things that the intervention keeps…

In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs, who exposes the high death…