The Biden Administration has made root-and-branch reconstruction of antitrust law and competition policy a centerpiece of its economic agenda. This moment was overdue. For decades, big business-friend ...

No one hates a bad teacher more than a good teacher,” Arne Duncan remarked in 2009. No one talks as bluntly about K-12 education as President Barack Obama’s Education Secretary once did. The next ...

Every year over two million workers are seriously injured at work, and over 5,000 workers lose their lives on the job. The ...

Maria used to think of her future in terms of shifts, not decades. On good weeks, she could pick up extra nights at the ...

America has a billionaire problem. When just 300,000 households control $40 trillion, more than five times what the federal government spent last year, the result is the systematic purchase of our ...

Storytelling is the essence of politics. In stable times, politicians can spend their hours detailing how they plan to put a fatter chicken in every pot. But in hard times, they need to craft ...

The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money By Bryan Caplan • Princeton University Press • 2018 • 416 pages • $29.95 George Mason University economist Bryan ...

The internet is the most powerful and pervasive platform in the history of the planet. Yet, the absence of government oversight has allowed it to be ruled by a handful of corporate autocrats.

Black Americans have rarely faced a moment of such swirling currents and counter-currents as this period in history. If we go back to the hope associated with the election of Barack Obama; then ...

The Cold War has a lot to answer for: trillions of dollars of wasteful military spending; a couple of nuclear close shaves, either of which might easily have led to a nuclear exchange, with ...

Neoliberalism isn’t just a set of economic precepts—it’s also an architecture of laws passed to reinforce those precepts. Those laws must be changed.

In November 2021, then-Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican, signed into law new congressional maps that would, as before, give Democrats all nine of the state’s House seats—despite ...