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The No-Brainer Issue of the Year: Let High-Skill Immigrants Stay
Our policy toward the world’s best and brightest is currently: “Welcome! Enjoy this expensive education. Now go home!” Does that make any sense?
Alexander T. Tabarrok  ·  December 20, 2011
Why Mandated Health Insurance Is Unfair
There’s an easier way to solve the “free-rider” problem.
John C. Goodman  ·  December 19, 2011
Ruining Christmas: An Economist’s Guide
Art Carden  ·  December 18, 2011
The Mask Slips: The Durban meeting shows that climate policy and climate science inhabit parallel worlds
Letter to the Editor
S. Fred Singer  ·  December 17, 2011
Payroll Tax Political Theater
Benjamin Powell  ·  December 15, 2011
It’s Up to the Public to Vindicate Bill of Rights Day
Anthony Gregory  ·  December 15, 2011
Quit Preaching and Lead by Example
Ivan Eland  ·  December 14, 2011
Is Leon Panetta the Right Man to be Secretary of Defense?
Winslow T. Wheeler  ·  December 13, 2011
New President Won’t Have It Easy In Spain
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  December 13, 2011
Has the ‘Occupy’ Movement Jumped the Shark?
Yesterday’s “Occupy Ports” Day Wasn’t a Protest of How International Trade is Conducted, but a Protest Against International Trade Itself. Have the Protesters Gone Too Far?
Art Carden  ·  December 13, 2011
Why Does College Cost So Much?
Richard K. Vedder, Matthew Denhart  ·  December 9, 2011
Occupy Bourbon Street? Big-Time Sports and Inequality
Art Carden  ·  December 9, 2011
Shopping for Health Coverage Versus Shopping for Health Care
John R. Graham  ·  December 8, 2011
The Welfare State Neutralizes Opponents by Making Them Dependent on Government
Robert Higgs  ·  December 8, 2011
Pro-Business vs. Pro-Market: What’s the Difference?
Ivan Eland  ·  December 7, 2011
The Twisted Tree of Progressivism
Joseph R. Stromberg  ·  December 7, 2011
Better Facebook? Better Comments? Buttons We Need
Art Carden  ·  December 2, 2011
Moderation in Following the Constitution Is No Virtue
Ivan Eland  ·  November 30, 2011
Send These, the Homeless, Tempest-Tost to Me
I’m Thankful for Immigrants
Art Carden  ·  November 28, 2011
Durban Climate Conference
The Dream Fades
S. Fred Singer  ·  November 28, 2011
Why Is Immigration Illegal Anyway?
Benjamin Powell, Art Carden  ·  November 20, 2011
What is a Progressive?
John C. Goodman  ·  November 19, 2011
Capitalism and the Wall Street Protesters
Dominick T. Armentano  ·  November 19, 2011
Can the PayPal Mafia Fix Health Care?
John R. Graham  ·  November 18, 2011
Why BEST Will Not Settle the Climate Debate
S. Fred Singer  ·  November 17, 2011


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