Do Family Leave Policies Work?
Jeffrey Miron Policies that subsidize or mandate family leave aim to reduce the gender pay gap, shrink the “child penalty,” and otherwise promote success for women in the labor market.…
The Mississippi State Auditor’s Report “How Illegal Immigration Hurts Mississippi Taxpayers” Isn’t Serious
Alex Nowrasteh The Mississippi Office of the State Auditor released a report that purports to show that illegal immigrants impose a cost of over $100 million on state taxpayers and…
Anti-Price-Gouging Laws Entrench Shortages
Ryan Bourne Note: This is an excerpt from my book The War on Prices, made all the more relevant by Kamala Harris’s promise to introduce a federal anti-price-gouging law on…
Five Reasons Why Social Security Is an Income Transfer Program, Not an “Earned Benefit”
Romina Boccia It’s tempting to believe that Social Security is an “earned benefit”—after all, that’s a prevalent idea we’ve been sold for decades, and it feels good to think of…
Reflections on the Libertarianism vs. Conservativism Debate
Deirdre N. McCloskey On July 25, more than four years after the emergence of COVID-19 and the authoritarian reaction to it by the state, the once-annual debate between the interns…
Have We Learned Anything New About Who Pays the Corporate Tax?
Adam N. Michel At the end of 2017, Republicans cut the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent as part of a larger package of tax cuts…
Yard-Sign Libertarianism and Kamalamania
Gene Healy The other week, I did some get-off-my lawn grumbling about “libertarians these days.” When Donald Trump came down that escalator, I suggested, he didn’t just scramble everyone else’s brain:…
Americans Paid for the Trump Tariffs—and Would Do So Again
Clark Packard, Scott Lincicome, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon During a campaign stop in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, over the weekend (Aug. 17–18), former President Donald Trump told the audience that “a tariff…
Grocery Price Gouging?
Peter Van Doren Soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced a proposal to empower the federal government to ban corporate price gouging in grocery prices. Historically, politicians often float price…
The Brazilian Judiciary’s Continued Censorship and the Brussels-Brasilia Effect
David Inserra This past weekend (Aug. 17–18), X announced it would close its local offices in Brazil in response to the judiciary’s continued censorial demands. This unprecedented action puts X…