Colleen Hroncich “We realized there was really a need here for differentiating of learning,” explains Fig Newton, an entrepreneur in Des Moines, Iowa. He and his wife had extensive national and international experience in ministry and education. When they moved back to Des Moines and got involved with schools there, they saw “students from different cultural backgrounds, economic and social ...
Jeffrey Miron In 2019, Chinese authorities restricted minors to 90 minutes of video games on weekdays and 3 hours on weekends, while also banning gaming between 10:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Authorities further tightened regulations in 2021, permitting play only from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. While these policies might be well-intentioned (seeking to reduce addiction and improve public ...
Michael Chapman In 1982, the gifted libertarian Roy A. Childs Jr. warned that the American New Right was working to build a “populist, authoritarian movement” hostile to free markets and committed to some form of managed economy. Forty-three years later, Donald Trump is president, and the Wall Street Journal’s chief economics commentator describes his policies as “state capitalism,” a “hybrid between ...
Matthew Cavedon President Donald Trump yesterday called for progressive billionaire George Soros and his son, Alexander, to be charged under RICO (the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act). Their supposed crime? “Their support of Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America.” The call to prosecute may be bluster. As politicians on both sides of ...
Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler Which states have the highest and lowest levels of public corruption? Public corruption generally involves elected or career government officials stealing public property or receiving bribes from businesses and individuals in return for special treatment. Some recent examples are here. We previously explored Department of Justice (DOJ) data on corruption convictions in the nation’s 94 federal judicial ...
Walter Olson A brushback pitch, according to the Baseball Reference site, “is a pitch thrown close enough to the batter to intimidate him.” That’s a fair description of the lawsuit the Trump administration aimed at all 15 of the federal district court judges in Maryland in their personal, not just official, capacities over an obscure court rule in deportation cases. ...
Jeffrey A. Singer News that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez, MD, due to disagreements over vaccine policy—followed by three top CDC officials, Drs. Daskalakis, Houry, and Jernigan resigning—underscores how politicized the agency has become. These events highlight why we need to decentralize public health and remove ...
Romina Boccia, Dominik Lett, and Ivane Nachkebia As we close out our third year, we’re once again taking stock of what our team has been working on—and the impact we’re making (see our first and second year recaps, here and here). As the debt outlook has darkened—Congress increased deficits yet further, gimmicks remain prevalent in fiscal policymaking, and all three ...
David Inserra President Trump took to Truth Social to “put all Countries with Digital Taxes, Legislation, Rules, or Regulations, on notice that unless these discriminatory actions are removed, I, as President of the United States, will impose substantial additional Tariffs on that Country’s Exports to the U.S.A., and institute Export restrictions on our Highly Protected Technology and Chips. America, and ...
Jeffrey Miron A widely endorsed view of markets holds that “capitalism without bankruptcy is like religion without hell.” Thus, as new research notes, [B]arriers to firms exiting the market, such as the costs of bankruptcy, laying off workers, and selling or repurposing assets, can stifle firm creation and weaken an economy. The authors then note that … exit costs in India ...