Government & Politics
Tactical coverage of politics, usually from inside the Beltway.
- Hitting the Sick in the Wallet Alex M. Brill 11/06/2009
- Taxes and other provisions in the current healthcare reform legislation will inflict the sick and the elderly with higher prices.
- The Quiet Death of the Kyoto Protocol Samuel Thernstrom 11/05/2009
- Reading the climate news in recent weeks, one might start to wonder who won the last election.
- How Prosperous Are We? Roger Bate 11/03/2009
- The Legatum Institute's Prosperity Index goes a long way toward addressing shortcomings in other measurements of people’s well-being around the world.
- Policy on Hold at the Fed Desmond Lachman 10/31/2009
- At its upcoming meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee will likely see little reason to change its monetary policy stance since economic developments have stood very much in line with the Fed’s expectations.
- Hondurans, Not Zelaya, Will Decide Their Future Roger F. Noriega 10/30/2009
- A new proposal by the interim government represents a triumph for the Honduran people and their constitution.
- The Healthcare Co-op: Believe It, It’s Not Butter Wistar Wilson 10/30/2009
- If healthcare overhaul legislation including a public plan fails to pass, Democrats could fall back on a homespun idea from the heartland: healthcare cooperatives.
- From Start-up to Stop: The Recession and Entrepreneurship Scott Shane 10/30/2009
- I’ve taken a look at the data, and, I’m sad to report, the Great Recession has badly damaged the entrepreneurial sector of the U.S. economy.
- Coase vs. the Neo-Progressives Jeff Eisenach and Adam Thierer 10/28/2009
- Fifty years ago this month a seminal paper challenged the prevailing intellectual orthodoxy on markets, technology, and regulation. We would be wise to revisit it today.
- About That Stimulus: The Shovel Wasn’t Ready Alex Brill and Rachel Forward 10/27/2009
- Many 'shovel-ready' projects are still tied up in administrative red tape. It is clear that the stimulus bill has done little thus far to help get workers back to work.
- Bleeding Biotech James V. DeLong 10/24/2009
- Given all the hopes for medical progress that ride on biotech progress, one might assume that Congress and the administration would seek ways to encourage investment. One would be wrong.