The Open Market Blog

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/13/2012

OPINION CATHY YOUNG: "A Pox on Both Houses in the Contraception Controversy" "Sometimes, I catch a lot of flak for taking a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/12/2012

OPINION LAWRENCE HUNTER: "Justice Antonin Scalia: Man on the Obamacare Margin" "Hayek explained why conservatives are so lame at protecting individual rights:…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/09/2012

OPINION RYAN CALO: "Drones, Dogs, and the Future of Privacy" "Just in case you haven’t seen the memo: Drones are coming to…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/08/2012

OPINION TIMOTHY B. LEE: "The Obama Administration Wants Warrantless Access to Cell Phone Locational Data" "A Maryland court last week ruled that…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/07/2012

OPINION TYLER COWEN: "Matt Yglesias' New Book" "If people were the size of ants, without encountering any absurdities of physics or biology,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/06/2012

OPINION JOHN VILLASENOR: "Can the Government Force Suspects to Decrypt Incriminating Files?" "What happens when the government’s desire to access a suspect’s…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/05/2012

OPINION ERIN GLORIA RYAN: "Unbelievably Stupid Law Would Declare Single Parenthood Child Abuse" "Senate Bill 507 is sponsored by Republican Senator Glenn…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/02/2012

OPINION DAVID HENDERSON: "Tear Down These Walls" "Something has switched for me and I think a large part of the reason is…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 03/01/2012

OPINION MIKE MASNICK: "NSA Power Grab: New Legislation Would Give It Broad Powers To Spy On 'Critical' Private Networks" "Last week, in talking…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/29/2012

OPINION LAWRENCE LINDSEY: "Geithner and the 'Privilege' of Being American" "Last week Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said that the "most fortunate Americans"…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/28/2012

OPINION DAVID CARR: "Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth" "Last Wednesday in the White House briefing room, the administration’s press secretary, Jay…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/27/2012

OPINION RUSS ROBERTS: "The Insanity of Health Insurance" "It is insane that we get our health care from our employers. That happens…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/24/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/24/2012

OPINION JACOB SULLUM: "Distorting the Economy is the Whole Point" "Distorting the economy is not, as NPR suggests, an unwanted side effect…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/22/2012

OPINION MORT ZUCKERMAN: "The Cost of Obama's Keystone XL Dithering" "The original Keystone pipeline won approval after two years and is operational.

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/21/2012

OPINION RAMESH PONNURU: "U.S. Limits on Government Can't Work Everywhere" "Although the drafters and ratifiers of the U.S. Constitution sought a stronger…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/17/2012

OPINION KATHERINE MANGU-WARD: "Free-Range Parenting: You're Going to Go to Jail. Maybe." "Hey look, here's a big omnibus article by David Pimentel…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/16/2012

OPINION GLENN G. LAMMI: "Court Should Dismiss Privacy Group's Suit vs. FTC Over Google Buzz Settlement" "On Friday,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/15/2012

OPINION MICHAEL BARONE: "A Failure of Imagination Put Metro on Wrong Track" "Believers in central planning should take a look at Washington's…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/14/2012

OPINION DAVID WEIGEL: "Why Super PACs Are Good for Democracy" "It’s getting harder to argue that super PACs have horribly degraded our…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/13/2012

OPINION SHIKA DALMIA: "GM Profits, But Taxpayers Are Still On the Hook" "Three years after being rescued by a taxpayer bailout, …

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/10/2012

OPINION DON BOUDREAUX: "The Twistocracy" "[U.S. Senator Kirsten] Gillibrand (D-NY) said: 'The power to decide whether or not to use contraception lies…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/08/2012

OPINION MARK BUCHANAN: "A Bar May Be The Place to Understand Markets" "Economists have wondered for decades why markets have 'excess volatility'…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/07/2012

OPINION SEN. ROB PORTMAN and SEN. MARK PRYOR: "A Push for Smart Regulations" "The Regulatory Accountability Act, which we introduced along with…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/06/2012

OPINION STEVEN HORWITZ: "Creating Jobs Versus Creating Value" "Picking on New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is one of the largest participation sports on…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/03/2012

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. Also included in the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/03/2012

OPINION ADAM SNEED: "The Wrong Way to Monitor Internet Cafes for Terrorists" "If you’ve ever cared about privacy while using the Internet…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 02/01/2012

OPINION JAMES PERON: "Why Libertarians Need to Talk to the Left and How to Do It" "A local libertarian party group once…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 01/31/2012

OPINION SANJIV AHUJA: "Lost in D.C.'s Iron Triangle" "LightSquared, encouraged by the Federal Communications Commission under both the Obama and Bush administrations,…