David Inserra Tomorrow, June 4, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold a workshop titled “The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families.” As if that title wasn’t clear enough, the event description doubles down on the FTC’s hostility to technology companies: “The event will bring together parents, child safety experts, and government leaders to discuss ...
Michael F. Cannon Grace-Marie Turner was such a powerful and constant force in the free-market health care movement, it’s hard to imagine it without her. She was at the 1974 hotel-bar meeting where Arthur Laffer explained “the Laffer curve” to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dick Cheney. In 1993, she founded the Health Policy Consensus Group, a decades-long, often ...
Jeffrey Miron A critical issue for the school choice movement is how charter and voucher programs treat religious schools. Supreme Court decisions from 2002 and 2022 hold that the Constitution’s Establishment Clause does not bar religious schools from receiving government funded vouchers, as these fund students but not religious institutions directly. In a recent 4–4 ruling, however, the US Supreme ...