Editor’s Pick

Thomas A. Berry Virginia Tech has instituted a “bias‐​related incidents” policy, under which students may be referred to a “Bias Response Team.” Under the policy, students can be referred for…

Colin Grabow In an ambitious move to promote coastal shipping, India’s government reportedly plans to abolish cabotage restrictions that prevent foreign vessels from transporting goods between the country’s ports. The…

Walter Olson Following elections in which former President Donald Trump denounced alternate voting methods as fraud‐​ridden and encouraged Republicans to save their votes for Election Day, both Trump and the…

Clark Packard Between the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and the 1970s, China’s economy was centrally planned. It engaged in little commerce and extreme poverty was…

Jeffrey Miron This article appeared on Substack on September 22, 2023. The White House recently announced the granting of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Venezuelans who arrived in the US…

John Mueller Regardless of how it ends, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is likely to go down in history as a massively counterproductive failure, and he may well be…

Travis Fisher A previous post showed that the total cost of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA’s) energy subsidies could reach $3 trillion. Subsidies so large cause a lot of problems—one being…

Colleen Hroncich When the kids in Rosa Aristy’s homeschool co‐​op said they wanted to learn coding, the moms all looked at each other and wondered who was going to teach…

David Boaz It’s hard not to despair at the state of public policy discussion these days. Every day’s newspaper contains another bad idea from politicians, pundits, and wonks from across…

David Boaz It’s hard not to despair at the state of public policy discussion these days. Every day’s newspaper contains another bad idea from politicians, pundits, and wonks from across…