The Open Market Blog

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/20/2011

OPINION GENE HEALY: "Obama and Congress Bring the War on Terror to Your Doorstep" "Last Thursday—which happened to be the 220th anniversary…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/19/2011

OPINION WALL STREET JOURNAL: "VACLAV HAVEL" "When [Havel] died Sunday at age 75, he knew his legacy lived on with freedom-seeking people…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/16/2011

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
• 12/16/2011

OPINION JORDAN WEISSMAN: "The Dark Side of America's Growing Social Safety Net" "By now, we've all gotten used to the fights on…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/15/2011

OPINION CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN & DARREN GOODE: "Does Politics Trump Science in the Obama W.H.?" "President Barack Obama turned it into a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/14/2011

OPINION JOHN STOSSEL: "Job Creators Fight Back" "Government has no money of its own. All it does is take from some people…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/13/2011

OPINION BILL WILSON: "Internet Piracy Bill: A Free Speech 'Kill Switch'" "What began as an attempt to restrain foreign piracy on the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/07/2011

OPINION SEN. JIM INHOFE: "Kyoto Process is Dead" "Today, I’m happy to bring you the good news about the complete collapse of…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/06/2011

OPINION TERENCE CORCORAN: "The Dark Side of Green Energy" "In the annals of Canadian green energy policy, nothing stands out like Ontario’s…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/05/2011

OPINION RADLEY BALKO: "SWAT Raids, Stun Guns, and Pepper Spray: Why the Government is Ramping Up the Use of Force" "In February…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/02/2011

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
• 12/01/2011

OPINION WILL OREMUS: "The Rise of the Geek Lobby" "[S]omething happened on the way to [SOPA]'s easy passage and the flourish of…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/30/2011

OPINION NATE ANDERSON: "Complaint: Medical 'Copyright Over Your Comments' Contracts Are Illegal" "When our own Timothy B. Lee stepped into a Philadelphia…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/29/2011

OPINION ELVIS COSTELLO: "Steal This Record" "Unfortunately, we at www.elviscostello.com find ourselves unable to recommend [Costello's soon-to-be-released compendium] to you as the…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/28/2011

OPINION DALIA LITHWICK: "First Amendment Smackdown: What Would the Founding Fathers Have Thought of Mixed Martial Arts?" "MMA is a combat sport…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/21/2011

OPINION MICHAEL HIRSH: "The Supercommittee and a Never-Ending Cycle of Dysfunction" "If the '62 Mets were the worst team in major league…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/21/2011

Financial Times’s November 18 interview with Baltimore native John Waters (available ungated at Slate) is a great read for a couple of reasons: First, because…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/18/2011

OPINION NICK GILLESPIE - "Dems and Reps Agree: Let's Spend Tons More on Defense!" "Heritage Foundation, like most groups on the right,…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/18/2011

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
• 11/17/2011

OPINION BRYAN CAPLAN: "The Reasons for my Hostility to ZMP" "ZMP [Zero Marginal Productivity] coheres well with my elitism,  but coheres poorly…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/16/2011

OPINION BRINK LINDSEY: "The Start-Up Act: Blueprint for an Innovation Recovery" "The best way to promote innovation is to clear the way…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/14/2011

OPINION KATIE ROIPHE: "In Favor of Dirty Jokes and Risqué Remarks" "Codes of sexual harassment imagine an entirely symmetrical universe, where people…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/11/2011

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
• 11/10/2011

OPINION NATE ANDERSON: "Remember the Borderless Internet? It's Officially Dead" "'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,' wrote…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/09/2011

OPINION MICHAEL GRAHAM: "Obama Has a Lot to Learn" "In this political moment, the three big lies are 'Social Security is solvent,'…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/08/2011

OPINION RICHARD EPSTEIN: "Three Cheers For Income Inequality" "As recent polling data reveals, the American public is driven by two irreconcilable…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/04/2011

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
• 11/04/2011

OPINION REASON TV: "Steven Pinker on the Decline of Violence and 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' (VIDEO)" TANA GANEVA: "Why…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 10/31/2011

OPINION SONIA ARRISON: "Don't Be Afraid to Live Longer, Justin Timberlake" "While the film [In Time] is fun, it falls into a…