Steve Hanke writes at National Review Online about one disturbing element of the Afghanistan story that’s getting little attention. In an August address to the nation on Afghanistan, President Biden…
Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon highlights the Trump administration’s response to Chinese claims about the coronavirus pandemic. The Trump administration is aggressively working to counter China’s claims that…
Editors at National Review respond to the spending increases in the latest federal budget deal. Congress has reached a consensus on spending — spend! — and the Trump administration is…
I am rather sick of young punks criticizing our American way of life and trying to bring it down from within. I accept they are un- or mis-educated by the…
Shikha Dalmia of the Reason Foundation explores the unintended consequences of Western aid on the Ebola crisis. President Obama is sending military personnel and $750 million to Liberia and other…
Amity Shlaes documents for National Review Online readers a new study that challenges popular misconceptions about government intervention after disasters. We often tend to overrate the quality of post-disaster intervention.…
Nina Easton‘s latest Fortune column explores the impact of private-sector efforts to provide a more effective alternative to taxpayer-funded foreign aid. Coca-Cola, operating mostly under the media radar over the…
Here is a short and sweet article briefly explaining why economic development doesn’t work. It argues US foreign aid “creates the incentive for already dysfunctional governments to remain ineffective.” The…
Nina Easton describes in the latest Fortune magazine a program that appears better than most, the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Since its founding in 2004 the agency, which enjoys bipartisan support,…
Economist Dambisa Moyo atttracted much well-deserved publicity for her conclusions about the ineffectiveness of most government-based international aid ? conclusions that mirrored those of White Man?s Burden author William Easterly.…
But not Sheldon Richman, whose column today makes the extremely important point that Haiti is so desperately poor because the government permits little freedom. Haitians won’t make progress through foreign…
Sebastian Mallaby, writing in The Atlantic, invokes the 12th-century example of Lubeck as he searches for historical precedents for the charter city concept Stanford economist Paul Romer is pushing as…