Jeffrey Miron Do government policies result from good intentions or from the self-interest of those who expect to benefit? Often, the answer is “both.” The classic illustration is US alcohol prohibition. Baptists thought it saved souls; Bootleggers believed it generated excess profits for those willing to break the law. New research applies this perspective to the rise and fall of ...
Matthew Cavedon Architecture can say a lot. The places that do the citizens’ work with the taxpayers’ money should be meaningfully open forums, not defiantly hostile fortresses (like, say, Boston’s City Hall, a notorious concrete middle finger to the public). That is especially the case for courts. While they face security challenges, the Constitution requires all their proceedings to be ...
High street cosmetics chain Lush has closed all of its UK shops, factories and its website in a one-day protest over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The Dorset-based company said the gesture, carried out on Wednesday 3 September 2025, was intended as an act of solidarity, with shop windows across the UK displaying the message: “Stop starving Gaza – we ...
Dominik Lett Following the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Republicans’ mammoth $4 trillion tax and spending law, Congress is now slowly turning to address the next series of budget debates, including annual appropriations for FY2026 and the expiration of pandemic-era enhanced Obamacare subsidies. As Romina Boccia and I outlined in our fiscal agenda paper earlier this year, ...
More than 1,000 current and former employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) signed a letter calling on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign on Wednesday. The employees cited Kennedy’s recent ousting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Susan Monarez. They also accused Kennedy of appointing ‘political ideologues’ to positions of ...
As global e-commerce continues to surge, merchants are increasingly turning to crypto payment gateway solutions to escape the heavy fees and frictions of traditional finance. With blockchain-based transactions, online retailers are discovering new ways to streamline cross-border payments, protect profit margins, and scale with confidence. Why traditional payment methods are failing online retailers High transaction fees, chargebacks, and slow settlement ...
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has admitted she underpaid tax on her £800,000 Hove property, conceding she made a “mistake” but insisting she acted in good faith on legal advice. Speaking to Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby, Rayner confirmed reports that she failed to pay the full amount of stamp duty on her second home, a liability estimated at ...
Business magnate Elon Musk suggested that anti-white male propaganda is ‘a major driver of’ members of that demographic adopting transgender identity. ‘My observation is that a major driver of white males becoming trans is the relentless propaganda portraying white men as the worst human beings,’ Musk wrote in a post on X. ‘If those lies land, especially during vulnerable teen ...
For decades, Democrats have clung to James Carville’s mantra: ‘It’s the economy, stupid.’ It became the default excuse for every campaign message, every strategy and every setback. We need to retire that phrase from our political lexicon. My fellow Democrats forget that Carville’s first rule on his whiteboard in Little Rock wasn’t the economy, stupid. It was ‘Change vs. more of the ...
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have reportedly brought their long-running TV partnership to a close after more than two decades together, winding up their joint production company worth an estimated £24 million. The trio, who became household names on the BBC’s Top Gear before launching Amazon’s The Grand Tour, set up W. Chump & Sons with long-time producer ...