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• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/08/2006

America’s finest news source has the best round-up of election coverage I’ve seen so far – “Politicians Sweep Midterm Elections: Resounding Victories In All…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/07/2006

Now that the polls on the East Coast are closed and we’re all waiting to see which way the balance of power will fall, follow…

• By: John Berlau
• 11/06/2006

One of this election’s “October Surprises” may have come on Nov. 1, when Chuck Schumer, Democratic Senator from New York and chairman of the Democratic…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/06/2006

Former Ku Klux Klan leader Samuel H. Bowers died in a Mississippi state prison this weekend, while serving a life sentence for the 1966…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 11/06/2006

This weekend, CEI co-hosted the conference, “Empowering Green Bureaucrats: How Global Environmental Treaties Threaten National Sovereignty and Hurt the World’s Poor,” with Universidad Francisco…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 11/05/2006

This morning, CEI co-hosted the conference, “Empowering Green Bureaucrats: How Global Environmental Treaties Threaten National Sovereignty and Hurt the World’s Poor,” with Universidad Francisco…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/03/2006

Jeff Wrase at the Joint Economic Committee emails this morning with good news – the lowest levels of unemployment in over five years. The…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 11/02/2006

It’s not every day that an award competition ends in a tie, but that’s what happened last night at this year’s International Policy Network‘s…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/30/2006

It’s been a popular visitor and resident in many American front yards for decades, but there is now the very real chance that the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/27/2006

Vietnam passed a final hurdle in its quest for membership in the World Trade Organization. According to the WTO, the “finishing touches to Vietnam’s…

• By: John Berlau
• 10/27/2006

Republicans have long been accused of being the party of Wall Street, a campaign charge that’s again being leveled in this election. But on the…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/26/2006

President Bush just signed a bill to build a 700-mile fence on the 2000-mile U.S.border with Mexico to keep illegal immigrants out. Wow, that’s…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/26/2006

If, as Saul Alinsky, said, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon,” then it’s effective against even hiding foes, like Iraq’s violent insurgents—and especially when the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/24/2006

Clods’ Letters to Mad, a compendium of the most unintentionally funny letters received by Mad magazine during the 1970s, gives a great—albeit fictional—example of the…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/23/2006

“Socialismo o muerte” (“socialism or death”) may be the choice that Fidel Castro has imposed upon Cuba’s population for decades, but many Cubans are responding,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/23/2006

More fun news from CNS today: the history of Ted Kennedy’s secret plan to conspire with the Soviets to derail Reagan’s reelection in 1984!…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/23/2006

Ever feel like you’re aiding the oppression of workers every time you order a mocha latte at Starbucks? According to the Industrial Workers of…

• By: John Berlau
• 10/23/2006

CEI has nothing against tattoos. Some of our staffers proudly sport them. And we generally have a live-and-let-live, libertarian philosophy. But now, in a twist,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/20/2006

Cato’s Will Wilkinson has an interesting, if slightly econ-jargon filled, article in Policy magazine on egalitarianism, class resentment and “zero-sum positional conflicts.” Published…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/20/2006

Well, they’ve gone and done it again. Wal-Mart, that is. Even with all kinds of labor and activist pressure on them to change their ways,…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/20/2006

Ralph Harris, guiding light of the UK’s Institute for Economic Affairs, has passed away. The Times has an extensive obituary: For three decades…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/20/2006

The magazines Black Enterprise, African American Golfer’s Digest and Divas On-The-Go are hosting the African-American Empowerment Weekend here in Washington this week. We’ve talked…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/19/2006

The Powell’s Books website has an interesting review (via The New Republic) of George Lakoff’s latest book about politics and language, Whose Freedom? Lakoff…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/18/2006

This afternoon Marian Tupy of Cato hosted a fascinating discussion on foreign aid and what is has and has not done for developing nations…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/18/2006

The deadlocked fight between Guatemala and Venezuela over the United Nations Security Council’s rotating Latin America seat is being reported as the latest setback…

• By: Gregory Conko
• 10/17/2006

A couple of months back, US Congressman Patrick Kennedy drove his car into a security barricade near the Capitol building early one Thursday…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/16/2006

Thanks to Fred for passing along (by way of Don Boudreaux) the link to the EconTalk podcast for this week. Host Russ Roberts…

• By: John Berlau
• 10/12/2006

There’s a saying that the most revealing part of Academy Awards speeches is who isn’t thanked. There is often a similar truism about…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/12/2006

Cato’s David Boaz and AFF’s David Kirby have a fascinating new study out on trends among the voting public,…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/11/2006

One of capitalism’s greatest virtues is the wide array of preferences it allows entrepreneurs to cater to—including the preferences of those who claim to disdain…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/11/2006

John Berlau, head of CEI’s Center for Entrepreneurship, hails the contributions of Nobel Prize in Economics recipient Edmund Phelps in…

• By: Fran Smith
• 10/11/2006

Tim Carney, former Warren Brookes fellow at CEI, takes a look at Mark Foley’s political contributions and finds he has been a…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/06/2006

Reuters is finally catching up with CEI’s own Tim Carney. In a story today, Tim McLaughlin reports that political contributions by the biggest Wall…

• By: Richard Morrison
• 10/06/2006

In what has to be one of this week’s worst excuses for good news, the Congressional Budget Office announced that the federal budget…

• By: Ivan Osorio
• 10/05/2006

But would Progressives against Progress endorse this great invention?…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/03/2006

Yesterday, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued an executive order commanding businesses seeking federally-funded disaster relief administered by the City of New…