Politics

Jeffrey A. Singer On May 19, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed into law a bill legalizing all drug paraphernalia, including testing equipment and…

Chris Edwards Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D‑OR) held a hearing last week to counter the House Republican plan to cut the…

Johan Norberg UNESCO has just designated the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act of 1766 a “Memory of the World.” It’s a well‐​deserved…

Marc Joffe In California, private sector innovation is giving way to public sector experimentation. From the state that pioneered special gasoline formulations,…

Chris Edwards The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 boosted the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget over the coming decade by $79 billion,…

Paul Matzko Los Angeles spent $200,000 on La Sombrita (‘“in the shade”), a bus stop shade/​light structure that provides little shade or light. It…

Romina Boccia The U.S. government teeters on the brink of defaulting on its payment obligations over the next few weeks as the…

Chris Edwards The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is in the news with the release of the Durham report and this week’s…

Will Duffield Gonzalez v. Google, a much‐​watched Supreme Court case about whether Section 230 protects algorithmic curation, ended with a whimper on Thursday. In…

Colleen Hroncich “Prior to the pandemic, I had never considered microschooling or delved into out‐​of‐​system learning environments,” says Lizette Valles, founder of Compass…