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How San Francisco Can Solve Its Homelessness Problem
A campus-based model in San Antonio suggests a path forward.
Lawrence J. McQuillan  ·  October 4, 2022
Gov. Newsom Is Right to Oppose Proposition 30, A Destructive Tax Increase
Luka Ladan  ·  October 3, 2022
Remembering Hate Speech
What we used to know as “hate speech” is now presidentially acceptable speech, and what has followed from it is no surprise.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 30, 2022
More Advanced U.S. Weaponry for Ukraine?
Ivan Eland  ·  September 30, 2022
Higher Education Used to Love Controversy
Richard K. Vedder  ·  September 29, 2022
Textbooks: Do We Know Which Ones Are Effective?
Ze’ev Wurman  ·  September 28, 2022
Martha’s Meltdown Model
The Martha’s Vineyard experience marks a unique opportunity for modern bicoastal progressivism.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 26, 2022
The New Inquisition
Burton A. Abrams  ·  September 23, 2022
Special Master Ruling Smacks of Excessive Reverence for the Imperial Presidency
Ivan Eland  ·  September 22, 2022
Is Latin America Beyond Hope?
Despite a glimmer of hope in Chile, its prospects are dire.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  September 21, 2022
Health Reforms Both Parties Should Endorse
Dean Clancy, John C. Goodman  ·  September 19, 2022
Harris Skipped Her Homework on Abortion and the Constitution
Ronald L. Trowbridge  ·  September 15, 2022
Medicare Prescription Drugs: A Case Study in Government Failure
John C. Goodman  ·  September 14, 2022
Hollywood Blacklist Backstory
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 14, 2022
Prohibition Is A Bad Way to Deal with Flavored Tobacco
William F. Shughart II, Josh T. Smith  ·  September 13, 2022
The Verdict Is in for El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experiment: It Failed
Caleb Hofman, Steve H. Hanke  ·  September 13, 2022
Next PM Must Guarantee Britain Never Locks Down Again
Steve H. Hanke, Steve Baker  ·  September 13, 2022
Global Economic Freedom Plunged During the Coronavirus Panic
Benjamin Powell  ·  September 13, 2022
Time to Scrap the Espionage Act of 1917
Ivan Eland  ·  September 10, 2022
Reagan Was Right: Big Government Corrupts the Military Too
Christopher J. Coyne  ·  September 10, 2022
Liberals Attacking Economists Should Check Their Student Loan Hypocrisy
Burton A. Abrams  ·  September 9, 2022
Socialism Was Never Great
Not even Mikhail Gorbachev could fix the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 9, 2022
How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful
We in America are regressing—now returning to the distant neanderthal past, now embracing the worst of what the 19th and 20th century had to offer.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 9, 2022
Buttigieg’s ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program Will Solve Nothing
James T. Bennett  ·  September 8, 2022
Could America Go the Way of the Soviet Union?
Judy L. Shelton  ·  September 7, 2022


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