Friday Feature: Heartland Education Reformation Organization
Colleen Hroncich Every once in a while, I talk to someone who is doing so many amazing things that it’s hard to know where to start. Kansas mom Dalena Wallace…
The FBI Puts Victims of Civil Forfeiture through Bureaucratic Hell
Thomas A. Berry and Ethan Yang In March 2022, the FBI raided a private vault company, seizing any boxes holding over $5,000. The raid was executed on the purported suspicion…
In Minneapolis, Planners Mix Basic Income and Rent Control with a Light Rail Project
Marc Joffe The Metropolitan Council, a regional planning and policymaking body for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, is pushing ahead with a second suburban light rail transit extension while struggling to…
Better Breathing Through Bureaucracy: The FDA’s Half-Century Phenylephrine Saga
Jeffrey A. Singer In September 2023, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel informed the agency that, 50 years after the FDA certified phenylephrine hydrochloride as a safe and effective…
The Best Political Argument for More Immigration Restrictions Just Failed
Alex Nowrasteh My colleagues and I have spent much time addressing the arguments raised by those who favor further restricting legal immigration to the United States. Our research on terrorism,…
The Lesson from Oregon: Drug Decriminalization Is a Partial Solution, at Best
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Libertarians believe that drug prohibition is costly and ineffective. Prohibition encourages violence, since participants in banned activities cannot use legal, peaceful means to resolve disputes. Moreover,…
Solar Panels and Open Lands
Chris Edwards In 2025, the new Congress and incoming Trump administration should reassess the sprawling 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which handed out vast subsidies for green energy. One reason…
Biden Administration Proposes Tightening Protectionist Buy American Act
Colin Grabow Only weeks after the release of a new study quantifying the high cost of Buy American Act protectionism, the Biden administration has decided the law isn’t protectionist enough.…
Trump and Vance Have Room to Run on Ukraine, and on Europe
Justin Logan The Washington foreign-policy establishment, working in concert with the Europeans, has been trying for years to “Trump-proof” both endless US aid to Ukraine and endless US dominance of…
Immigrants Didn’t Steal the Election After All
David J. Bier Among the rampant absurdities about immigration that spread from both the obscure and prominent corners of the Internet, the idea that the Biden administration was “importing” voters…