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Fri, Feb 3 Senior Fellow Ivan Eland cited in China Daily article “Roundup: 50 years on, more are calling on Washington to end embargo on Cuba”
Thu, Feb 2 Research Fellow Art Carden in Forbes commentary “Should We Regulate Sugar Like Alcohol or Tobacco?”
Wed, Feb 1 Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell cited in Banker & Tradesman article “Realtors’ Continuing Ed Requirement Benefits Realtors, Not Consumers”
Wed, Feb 1 Research Fellow Vern McKinley in The Hill commentary “Financing Fannie and Freddie’s Failures”
Wed, Feb 1 Senior Fellow Robert H. Nelson discusses land ownership in his recent Policy Review article “Our Languishing Public Lands”
Sun, Jan 29 Senior Fellow Ivan Eland in Deseret News commentary “U.S. could use other avenues for getting oil from Persian Gulf”
Sat, Jan 28 Research Director Alex Tabarrok cited in the Washington Post, “The government must prioritize innovation”
Thu, Jan 26 Research Director Alex Tabarrok in The Atlantic article “The Innovation Nation vs. the Warfare-Welfare State”
Thu, Jan 26 Senior Fellow Ivan Eland discusses in The Janesville Gazette why there is no reason for the United States to use military force in Iran to keep the Strait of Hormuz open
Thu, Jan 26 Robert Higgs commentary “U.S. Unemployment Woes Persist” featured in Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government
Wed, Jan 25 New commentary from Senior Fellow Ivan Eland “Democratization: Indigenous Beats Imported”
Tue, Jan 24 Research Fellow Art Carden new Forbes article “Have We Won the Future Yet? If Not Now, When? If Not Us, Who?”
Mon, Jan 23 Senior Fellow Robert Higgs cited in New American article “Unemployment Numbers, Regime Uncertainty, and Regulatory Surge”
Sun, Jan 22 Research Fellow Emily Skarbek in The Washington Examiner article “Writing Checks Against the Future”
Thu, Jan 19 Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell in The Sacramento Bee article “Spur Redevelopment by Abolishing RDAs”
Wed, Jan 18 Research Fellow Vern McKinley in Washington Times article “Financing failure: The state of bailouts” discussing his new book “Financing Failure”
Wed, Jan 18 New commentary from Senior Fellow Ivan Eland “Cut Carriers Now”
Tue, Jan 17 Senior Fellow Ivan Eland in The Washington Times explaining why Iran sanctions won’t work
Tue, Jan 17 Research Fellow William Watkins in The Daily Caller, “Gingrich is Right About Judicial Supremacy”
Mon, Jan 16 Research Fellow Jonathan Bean on Stossel discusses how breaking color barriers was pioneered by business against government restrictions
Sun, Jan 15 Senior Fellow Benjamin Powell cited in The Miami Herald regarding economical job preservation
Thu, Jan 12 Research Editor Anthony Gregory quoted in USA Today commentary “Restrict FCC power to police airwaves?”
Thu, Jan 12 Ivan Eland in San Antonio News article “How America could avoid returning to Iraq”
Thu, Jan 12 Research Fellow Art Carden in Forbes commentary “Dear Student: I Don’t Lie Awake At Night Thinking of Ways to Ruin Your Life”
Wed, Jan 11 Research Editor Anthony Gregory in The Huffington Post discussing “The Indecency of the FCC”
Wed, Jan 11 Research Fellow Vern McKinley Interviewed on Schiff Radio by Peter Schiff on his new book Financing Failure: A Century of Bailouts
Wed, Jan 11 New commentary from Ivan Eland “Don’t Count on Obama’s Defense Cuts”
Tue, Jan 10 Research Fellow Vern McKinley discusses the history of bailouts and his new book Financing Failure with KCMO Talk Radio
Fri, Jan 6 Senior Fellow Charles V. Peña commentary “Keystone Cops Logic” regarding the economic sanctions being placed on Iran
Fri, Jan 6 Senior Fellow Ivan Eland discusses the contents of his new book “No War for Oil” with the National Center for Policy Analysis
Tue, Jan 3 New commentary from Senior Fellow Ivan Eland, “How to Avoid a Return to Iraq”
Mon, Jan 2 Research Fellow Fred Singer discusses global warming in American Thinker article “Fake! Fake! Fake! Fake!”
Fri, Dec 30 Research Fellow Art Carden reflects on 2011 highlights in Forbes article “It’s the End of the Year As We Know It”
Fri, Dec 30 Senior Fellow Robert Higgs on “Government Officials Want You to Know that Your Earnings Belong to Them” at BigGovernment.com
Thu, Dec 29 Research Fellow Gabriel Roth answers the question “Who should pay for highways?” for the Sacramento Bee
Thu, Dec 29 Research Director Alex Tabarrok quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer article “Camden collects 57 guns in exchange for grocery vouchers” regarding gun buyback programs
Wed, Dec 28 Senior Fellow Ivan Eland’s recent article “Sometimes, Bad-Tasting Medicine Needs to Be Swallowed”
Fri, Dec 23 Research Fellow Art Carden’s Forbes article “Last-Minute Gifts: Spectacular? Special? Spirit of Retsyn?”
Thu, Dec 22 Senior Fellow Robert Higgs cited in nationally syndicated column by John Stossel, “Obamacare Abominations”

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Should We Regulate Sugar Like Alcohol or Tobacco? (2/2/2012)
Art Carden

Our Languishing Public Lands (2/1/2012)
Robert H. Nelson

U.S. Could Use Other Avenues for Getting Oil from Persian Gulf (1/29/2012)
Ivan Eland

The Innovation Nation vs. the Warfare-Welfare State (1/26/2012)
Alexander T. Tabarrok

Democratization: Indigenous Beats Imported (1/25/2012)
Ivan Eland

Make Obama’s State of the Union Address Fun for the Whole Family with BINGO! (1/24/2012)
Art Carden

Writing Checks Against the Future (1/22/2012)
Emily C. Skarbek

Your Vote Won’t Matter. Don’t Waste It. (1/19/2012)
Art Carden

Financing Failure: The State of Bailouts (1/18/2012)
Vern McKinley

Cut Carriers Now (1/18/2012)
Ivan Eland



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