National Review
SEC Unbound: Yet More Regulatory Creep
Federal agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have long varied in their focus and priorities, depending on their current leadership and the ideological composition…
Washington Examiner
Congress must reassert its legislative authority
It is tempting to claim that resource allocation questions are starker than ever. The classic formulation in political science is guns or…
Inside Sources
Government Antitrust Lawsuit Against Facebook Should be Dismissed
Facebook’s filing to dismiss antitrust lawsuits by the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) and state attorneys general is a chance to pause unwarranted political punishment of…
Forbes
Republican Surrender To Regulatory Progressivism Is The Wind Beneath Biden’s Wings
Republican senators may have voted in lockstep against Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, but they still played a role. A year ago, Senators…
National Review
The Answer to Our Big Tech Problem Is Decentralization
Before the “great de-platforming” following the events at the Capitol on January 6, defenders of a laissez-faire approach to social media were able to tell those…
Arizona Daily Sun
Texas Blizzard is a Preview of Biden’s Blackout Agenda
The huge blizzard that knocked out electricity for several days for 10 million Texans in mid-February is a scary preview of what life would be…
City Journal
Crossing the Line
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued ever-changing, sometimes contradictory guidance throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. But the disparity between the agency’s treatment of…
Real Clear Policy
Biden Administration Should Take a Restrained Approach to Fighting Disinformation
As the Biden administration counters foreign disinformation, it faces growing calls to impose stricter restrictions on social media and online platforms. While tech companies should…
National Interest
Why a Return to Net Neutrality Would Harm the Race to Adopt 5G
As President Joe Biden seeks to recalibrate U.S. foreign policy toward China and reestablish U.S. leadership, America needs to catch up with China in fifth-generation…
Seattle TImes
Biden administration needs a more nuanced approach toward Chinese apps
As the Biden administration recalibrates its policies toward China, it should carefully balance economic and security interests in reviewing Chinese mobile applications, such as TikTok…
National Review
Don’t Ban E-Cigarette Delivery by Mail
Amid the economic devastation caused by COVID-19, one industry has actually thrived: the cigarette business. Some people are smoking to relieve the emotional…
National Review
Team Biden’s COVID-Vaccine Deceptions
National Review
Team Biden’s COVID-Vaccine Deceptions
Can somebody tell President Biden that the election is over? Since he was sworn in six weeks ago, he hasn’t stopped denigrating the Trump administration’s…
National Review
Tyrannosaurus Regs and Regulatory Dark Matter: Biden’s Accountability Deficit on Regulation
Washington’s new motto is: When you run out of other people’s money, keep spending anyway. It’s a sad state of affairs when a national debt …
Forbes
The Best American Rescue Plan Is An “Abuse-Of-Crisis Prevention Act”
If limits exist that constrain politicians and the legislation they can enact in the name of crisis, rescue or stimulus, it is unclear what they…
Real Clear Markets
Why Walmart Bank Would Be Great for Business, Consumers
As small businesses and consumers struggle to stay afloat amid challenging economic times, access to credit, capital, and other financial services is critically important to…
Real Clear Policy
General Motors’ Projections on Electric Cars Are a No Go
It seems like every big car manufacturer is climbing on the electric bandwagon, even those, like General Motors, that have been burned by the technology…
The Washington Examiner
A Federal Eviction Ban Infringes on Constitutional Rights
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, federal and state governments have imposed multiple policies that infringe on constitutional rights in the name of protecting public health. Courts…
The Post-Journal
Why So Many Subsidies For Electric Vehicles?
If electric vehicles (EVs) are as fantastic as claimed, why do they need so many government handouts? Proponents of EVs are increasingly using the “I Word” —…
The Washington Examiner
The Secret History of the Minimum Wage Movement
As congressional Democrats push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, it’s worth asking where that figure came from. Why $15 (more…
City Journal
The Third Vaccine
Chalk up another victory for America’s innovative pharmaceutical sector in the battle against Covid-19. An FDA analysis has found that Johnson and Johnson’s…
National Review
The Great Texas Power Crash
In the Japanese classic movie Rashomon, three witnesses to a murder give earnest but conflicting accounts of what happened. In the end, the audience is left wondering.
Wall Street Journal
Biden and Allies Stoked Vaccine Fears
President Biden has proposed an “unprecedented” information campaign to persuade people to get Covid-19 vaccinations. Why, when a pandemic has killed 500,000 Americans, does the…
USA Today
Protecting Publius: Online Anonymity is Critical for Protecting Freedom to Dissent
The bipartisan loathing of Section 230, the liability shield that protects online platforms from being legally responsible for what their users post, has…
Inside Sources
If electric vehicles (EVs) are as fantastic as claimed, why do they need so many government handouts?
Proponents of EVs are increasingly using the “I Word” – inevitability. They say EVs make too much sense for consumers, not to mention the planet,…
The Hill
The Problem With A One-Size-Fits-All Federal Minimum Wage Hike
Minimum wage mandates aren’t free. They force employers to make difficult decisions and tradeoffs. When government forces wages up, non-wage pay goes down: Workers get…
Inside Sources
Counterpoint: Fix the Court, but Justice Should Not Be Random
Calls for “judicial reform” have too often been code for seeking changes to the courts for partisan advantage. This is why “reform” is rarely accomplished.
Op-Eds
Are Trump Supporters Losing Faith in Democracy?
City Journal
False Hero of the Pandemic
Something is rotten in the state of New York. And, as in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, it starts at the top. For the past year, New York governor…
National Review
Voluntary ESG Disclosures Not Enough for the Feds
Dozens of companies, including some of the best-known consumer brands, recently signed on to a new system of rules for reporting on environmental, social,…
National Review
Atlas, Mugged
Stanford’s campaign against Dr. Scott Atlas for the sins of working for former president Donald Trump and advocating for balancing the costs and benefits of…
National Review
Antitrust Litigation Usually Causes More Harm Than Good. Big Tech Is No Different
Advocates of expanded antitrust regulation often cite past cases to demonstrate the benefits of pursuing litigation against today’s Big Tech firms. But when the details of…
The Foundation for Economic Education
Economic Nationalists and Anti-Corporate Progressives Both Want More Government Power
Last month President Biden designated Rebecca Slaughter as acting chair of the Federal Trade Commission, where she has served as a commissioner since 2018. During a…
National Review
Don’t Tax Prescription Opioids
Co-authored by Sally Satel and Joel Zinberg In 1819, U.S. Supreme Court chief justice John Marshall aptly warned that “the power to tax involves the power…
National Review
The Dark Side of the Minimum Wage
President Biden and his fellow Democrats are pushing hard to increase the federal minimum wage to $15, and polls show strong…
Fortune
One of Biden’s First Acts as President May Have Broken the Law
One of Joe Biden’s first acts as President of the United States, the removal of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel Peter Robb, was…
Inside Sources
Bloomberg’s Philanthro-Colonialism: A Threat to Global Health and Science
Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is in hot water overseas —and potentially at home—with members of the Philippines government accusing Bloomberg-funded charities of…
Forbes
The 2021 “Unconstitutionality Index”: 19 Federal Rules And Regulations For Every Law Congress Passes
Even in a presidential administration bent on cutting regulation like the one that just decamped for Florida, the number of rules from hundreds of federal…
Inside Sources
Beating COVID-19: Five Simple Steps
Inside President Biden’s expansive and expensive plan to combat COVID-19 are a few hundred billion dollars to increase vaccination. Despite the scientific triumph of developing,…
National Interest
Why a Biden Administration Attack on Cryptocurrencies Would Be a Mistake
The new Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wants to restrict the use of cryptocurrencies, citing concerns with “illicit financing”—notably money laundering and terrorism financing.
The Pipeline
Joe Biden’s Climate Nirvana — and Ours
Since Washington was locked down on inauguration day, President Joe Biden was free to spend his first day in office signing stacks of Executive Orders rather than…
New York Post
Our Leaders Failed Us on COVID, but Miracle Science Brings Hope for Relief
It seems like a lifetime, but it was only one year ago that the world learned about a cluster of pneumonia cases linked to a…
City Journal
Don’t Wait to Reopen Schools
President Biden has asked governors to reopen schools at the end of his first 100 days in office. Why wait? No Covid-19 mitigation…
Real Clear Policy
Biden Administration Must Engage Private Sector on Cybersecurity
Since early last year, the coronavirus pandemic has presented a public health crisis so vast that it dominated the news and discussions around public policy.
Forbes
Biden Repudiates Trump Era With Revocation Of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation
As part of a “Day One” “flurry” of executive action, President Joe Biden issued an “Executive Order on Revocation of Certain…
Inside Sources
Biden Attack on Keystone Pipeline Bodes Ill For Jobs, Economy
Among the list of things President Joe Biden has reportedly promised to do immediately upon taking office is reversing President Donald Trump’s…
City Journal
What Was Amazon Waiting For?
January 20 was Inauguration Day. It was also the day that a major American employer offered to help in the Covid-19 vaccination effort. In a …
Forbes
Status Report: What Regulations Did The Trump Administration Eliminate In 2020?
Bookending four years of its infamous one-in, two-out requirement for issuing significant new regulations, the Trump administration quietly just released its status roundup called “…
National Review
Why Is Israel Doing Better Than Everyone Else in COVID Vaccinations?
Eleven years ago, Dan Senor and Saul Singer dubbed Israel the “Start Up Nation” for its disproportionately large number of technology start-ups and NASDAQ stock listings.
Fortune
It’s Time to Raise the Cost of Spreading Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theories were a major driver behind the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building. They have also been a growing part of the…