Editor’s Pick

Romina Boccia The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a chronic air traffic control (ATC) staff shortage because government control leads to a classic concentrated-benefits, diffuse-costs failure.  The FAA relies on…

Jeffrey Miron No. Much, perhaps all, of this regulation is misguided. As with most other policies, the federal government should leave states free to make their own mistakes. This provides…

Jeffrey A. Singer On November 20, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled 6–1 that the hypothesis behind Shaken Baby Syndrome/​Abusive Head Trauma (SBS/AHT) — that shaking a baby’s head can…

Colleen Hroncich A group of Tennessee parents and anti-school-choice advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit on November 20, challenging the state’s Education Freedom Scholarship (EFS) Act, claiming the program violates the…

Mike Fox It’s difficult to imagine a more quintessential conservative value than the idea that the government should leave peaceful people to their own devices. But that hasn’t happened, and…

Dominik Lett Since taking office in January, President Trump has repeatedly suggested downsizing and eventually eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and returning disaster responsibility to the states. Trump’s…

Colleen Hroncich Montana mom Holly Long had no idea how motherhood would change her. “I loved my job. When I had my daughter, I thought I’d take my three months…

Nicholas Anthony The marketing team at the European Central Bank has picked up a new buzzword for its digital euro campaign: “freedom.” European Central Bank board member Piero Cipollone has…

Jeffrey A. Singer Today, the Washington Post reports that career scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are quite upset to learn that the agency has updated…

Adam N. Michel Earlier this summer, France briefly floated the idea of quintupling its digital services tax (DST), a tariff-like levy on services primarily provided by American tech firms. The…