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Violent crime has spiked over the last year and a half, due at least in part to the hundreds antipolice protests that took place in the second half of 2020.…
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon documents debate on the political left about spending to address climate change. Progressive lawmakers and environmental groups are pushing President Joe Biden to…
Megan Zogby writes for the Martin Center about college campuses’ response to the coronavirus pandemic nationwide. Colleges have been trying to stop COVID-19 from spreading on campus, and after a…
Just as the Fonz signaled his dissent into silliness and irrelevance with an infamous shark-jumping scene on “Happy Days,” today’s protesters have reached a similar point of decline. That’s the…
According to a complaint filed by a former member of the Spanish department at Amherst College, “Teaching assistants … were encouraged to sleep with and socialize with students to boost enrollment.” The Washington Post reports:…
Sally Pipes outlines in a National Review Online column some problems associated with single-payer health care. Even if [Vermont] could figure out how to operate a single-payer system, it wouldn’t…
Responding to the recent hubbub over fast-food workers’ plea for $15 hourly wages, the latest Bloomberg Businessweek informs us: It’s more complex than simply doubling all wages. “Remember, not all…
Does high government debt hurt economic growth? Consider this recent Bloomberg Businessweek report. “Growth in a Time of Debt,”, a 2010 study by Harvard University economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth…
View in your browser. Weekly John Locke Foundation research division newsletter focusing on environmental issues. The newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well…
Don Carrington’s piece at Carolina Journal Online yesterday is a perfect example of how we dribble away billions of tax dollars in small amounts all over this country every day.…
A blurb in the latest Newsweek offers the following pronouncement: Every year, dozens of governors, particularly Republicans, win plaudits for curbing business taxes and state expenditures. The Cato Institute, for…
President Obama blames profits for our problems with health care and says a new not-for-profit insurance option will make everything better. But the largest insurance company in North Carolina, with…