The Open Market Blog

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/31/2012

OPINION DONALD BOUDREAUX: "Inconceivable Complexity" "A market economy is indescribably vast and complex—its success depends on so many intricate, changing details all…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/24/2012

OPINION AMELIA HAMILTON: "Government Regulation Slowing Energy Jobs and Economic Growth" "With unemployment in the United States at 8.3%, job growth is…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/21/2012

OPINION SALLY PIPES: "Gov. Deval Patrick's New Health Law Is Flat-Out Dangerous" "Beacon Hill was the scene of great fanfare earlier this…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/17/2012

OPINION ROB COX and RICHARD BEALES: "Since When Does a Huge Hedge Fund Need Subsidies?" "Since when does a huge hedge fund…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/16/2012

Today in Slate, Aisha Harris explains why the cast of David Cronenberg’s new film Cosmopolis features only one American actor: Back in May, David…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/15/2012

OPINION LINDSAY ABRAMS: "Pot May Improve Cognitive Functioning in Bipolar Disorder" "At least one prior study has shown than cannabis might have…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/14/2012

OPINION SALON: "Helen Gurley Brown: A Life in Links" "In an undated video, [Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley] Brown talked to Small Business…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/13/2012

OPINION ADAM COHEN: "Is Your Car Being Tracked by a License Plate Scanner?" "If you drive through Maryland, the state may be…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/10/2012

OPINION ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER EDITORIAL: "Is California Getting Too Much CARB?" "Californians recently have been learning about $54 million that was unspent…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/08/2012

OPINION STEVE FORBES: "To Help Free Market, Bury the Hatchet" "We all want America’s economy to improve and realize that crony capitalism…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/07/2012

OPINION A. BARTON HINKLE: "Abortion Debate Skewers Political Pieties" "According to a sympathetic piece in The Washington Post, Codding has 'tried for months'…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 08/01/2012

OPINION JOHN MERONY: "A Conservation With Gore Vidal" "[Hillary Clinton] would have been a wonderful president. As for my support for Obama,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/30/2012

OPINION MATTHEW YGLESIAS: "How to Ban Chick-Fil-A From Your City" "I hope that friends of free speech will note that while the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/27/2012

OPINION CONOR FRIEDERSDORF: "The Problem With the NYPD's Interstate Spy Squad" "The fact that the September 11 attacks targeted New York City,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/26/2012

OPINION EMILY BAZELON: "The GOP's Self-Inflicted Wounds" "Pennsylvania’s voter ID law goes on trial today. The first thing…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/25/2012

OPINION ANDREW KENT: "Just Don't Ask For Money" "Last week, the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights sued…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/24/2012

OPINION JEFF GREENE: "Robots, Trade and Your Job" "I'll never forget the retiree with a heavy accent who said, 'I worked in…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/20/2012

OPINION AMITY SHLAES: "Let States Do the Tax-Collecting Dirty Work" "But the best ideas don’t spread spontaneously. That line from the …

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/18/2012

OPINION THE ECONOMIST: "Gas works: Shale Gas is Giving a Big Boost to America's Economy" "[S]hale contributes a third of America’s gas…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/17/2012

OPINION ROB COX: "Yahoo Tackles Existential Problem With Engineering" "[Yahoo] has hired Marissa Mayer, one of the few females to rise up…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/16/2012

OPINION MICHAEL HASTINGS: "Bright Lights, Big Secret" "It’s been exactly 372 days since Vargas revealed, in a New York Times Magazine cover…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/13/2012

OPINION DEREK THOMPSON: "The End of TV and the Death of the Cable Bundle" "Every year, 100 million homes pay for a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/12/2012

OPINION RANDY BARNETT: "Amend the Commerce Clause" "In last week’s decision upholding the constitutionality of most of the Affordable Care Act, the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/10/2012

OPINION DAN LYONS: "Apple’s Move to Spite Google and Use Its Own Map Software Hurts Customers" "Apple’s late CEO Steve…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/09/2012

True or False: In the United States, a couple who wants to have a baby must first go through expensive testing of the male partner's…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/06/2012

OPINION WASHINGTON EXAMINER EDITORIAL: "Not Content With Winning, Obama Aides Rewrite Court's Ruling" "From the moment the Supreme Court rewrote Obamacare's individual…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/05/2012

OPINION DAVID THIER: "The Web for the Neighborhood" "In 2011, 'I Wish This Was' made the jump from the storefront to the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 07/03/2012

OPINION EMILY BADGER: "Debating the Local Food Movement" "A libertarian-leaning academic with a thick French-Canadian accent, [Pierre] Desrochers was in Washington, D.C.,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/29/2012

OPINION TOM SCOCCA: "Obama Wins the Battle, Roberts Wins the War" "Yes, Roberts voted to uphold the individual mandate, joining the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 06/27/2012

OPINION MEGAN GARBER: "Orbitz Discriminates Against Mac Users . . . Just Like It Should Be Doing" "The Wall Street Journal…