David Inserra Last week, Australia dropped its revised Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill 2024, and it’s about two sandwiches short of a picnic. The...
Romina Boccia Germany’s constitutional debt brake, or Schuldenbremse, is a critical fiscal policy tool designed to limit structural government deficits. Instituted in 2009 following...
Jeffrey A. Singer When the California legislature passed a bipartisan bill one month ago that would decriminalize possessing and personally using certain plant‐based psychedelic drugs,...
David Boaz Authoritarian—and not just authoritarian—governments typically see national history as an important way to shore up support for the regime. China is probably...
Neal McCluskey and Mustafa Akyol We are in the midst of Banned Books Week. A creation of many groups, including publishers, librarians, and booksellers, the...
Marc Joffe Two recent developments reinforce the case against new, large government‐run rail projects. These initiatives are usually a bad deal for taxpayers given their...
Adam N. Michel Interest rates on 10‐year Treasury bonds recently surpassed 4.7 percent after not exceeding 3.1 percent in the decade before 2022. Rising...
Norbert Michel The United Auto Workers announced it’s expanding the strike against General Motors and Ford today, just three days after Politico’s story about...
Alan Reynolds “Soaring Bond Yields Threaten Fed Goal of a Soft Landing” is the headline of a front‐page Wall Street Journal story by Nick Timiraos, who...