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Don’t Forget About Obamacare

Obamacare is still around, even though President Obama isn’t talking about it much. Here are four health care scholars reminding us what’s wrong with it, why we shouldn’t necessarily assume the Suprem More...

This Summer School Looks Like Fun

For an opportunity to learn more about liberty by dabbling across disciplines, consider applying to the first ever Legatum Summer School. Here’s the program’s description: The first Legatum Summer More...

Facebook Provides Lesson on Regulatory Burdens

The prospectus for Facebook’s initial public offering this week is a testament to how the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley law hampers economic growth, says John Berlau (“Facebook Filing Blasts Obama-Bush Overregu More...

Fill Up Your Calendar

Some upcoming events you might want to take in: Matt Welch and Jonah Goldberg will debate whether libertarians are part of the conservative movement. Welch v. Goldberg will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Wedn More...

The People Can Defend Themselves

Ordinary citizens are a lot more competent using guns to defend themselves than proponents of gun control give them credit for. That’s the takeaway from a new Cato Institute analysis of 4,699 news rep More...

Health Insurance Premiums Rise Faster After Obamacare

Some recent health insurance data, noted by John Graham of the Pacific Research Institute, tells a story (“If Health Spending Is Increasing Slower, Why Are Premiums Rising Faster,” January 2012). As o More...

CBO Agrees Federal Workers Are Overpaid

Federal workers get paid about 16 percent more in total compensation than comparable private-sector workers, according to a new study by the Congressional Budget Office. The CBO study compared federal More...

Religious Liberty Gets a One-Year Reprieve

Unless you work for a church, you’re probably going to pay for other people’s abortions, and even if you work for a religious non-profit, you’ll probably have to pay for them, too. On January 20, the More...

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Purchasing Health Insurance Across State Lines

Source: Washington Policy Center

Officials in Washington state currently ban citizens from buying health insurance in other states, forcing consumers to choose among a handful of in-state insurers. They also require individual health insurance plans sold in Washington to contain 58 different More...

Fill the Public Diplomacy Leadership Vacuum

Source: The Heritage Foundation

The United States government’s public diplomacy institutions are running on autopilot. While other nations, such as China, are ramping up public diplomacy and soft-power capabilities, the attention of the political leaders in this country is focused elsewhere: More...

Heritage Employment Report: January Jobs

Source: The Heritage Foundation

The January employment report is one of the strongest reports since last spring. Even better news is that there is now a three-month trend of job growth exceeding 150,000 jobs. It looks like the labor market recovery is strengthening. Unfortunately, the recove More...

The Medicare Drug Benefit Five Years Later: Is It Working?

Source: Hudson Institute

A prescription drug benefit became part of Medicare in 2006. With the benefit moving toward maturity, Hudson Institute convened a conference to assess its progress to date. At the center of the discussion was an assessment offered by former Secretary of Health More...

Think Big, Act Small: The How’s and Why’s of Conservative Philanthropy

Source: Philanthropy Daily

And so the lonely task of conservative philanthropy will go on. Those who practice it do so — in spite of being denounced as plutocratic exploiters of the masses — out of a firm sense that they are engaged in an enduring struggle to restore the Founders’ regim More...

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