Human beings really are the greatest resource
The most powerful answer and antidote to those who preach doom and destruction is human ingenuity. People find ways to overcome challenges – always have, always will. One small example…
Apple joins the surveillance team
Apple has positioned itself as a protector and advocate of its customers’ privacy. It was a good selling point against its market competitors, who trade freely in their own customers’…
Biden invests in moral hazard
The Biden administration has issued an executive order extending the forbearance of student loan payments through January 2022. That means those who have student loans will not be required to…
The eviction moratorium extension heads to court
With the Biden administration’s constitutionally dubious extension of a nationwide eviction moratorium comes the inevitable lawsuit seeking to overturn it: Landlords filed a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s extension…
There’s still no such thing as a free lunch
Progressives are angry at Arizona Sen. Krysten Sinema’s objection to a massive $3.5 trillion spending package. Like many partisans on the left, there’s a belief the government can spend whatever…
Industrial policy is still a dumb idea
We’ve written about the return of industrial policy before, but it’s worth recalling just how bad this newly-popular idea really is. The Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip writes that the…
Time to end the solar panel tariffs
One sign of an industry nearing maturity is its growing desire for government help, be it in the form of subsidies to plug the holes in its balance sheet, or…
The middle class tax trap
Even as the Biden administration unleashes its constitutionally-questionable eviction moratorium extension to appease progressives, the other side of the rental equation – landlords – faces a different problem: taxes. According…
Teacher unions balk at vaccine requirements
Teacher unions spent the bulk of the pandemic arguing their members should not be in classrooms teaching kids in person so long as there was no vaccine available to fight…
Congress revs up its rural broadband boondoggle
Congress is poised to get the federal government into the rural broadband business in a very big way. Inside the bipartisan infrastructure bill is a proposal to spend tens of…