Opinion
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Trump Administration Delays Summer Season Fuel Switch
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is delaying the normally required shift to summertime gasoline blends after the coronavirus pandemic caused a plummet in demand, leaving, pipelines, refineries, and storage tanks full of winter-grade fuel. -
Covid-19: What Will Happen If We Re-Open for Business?
Opinion -The idea of “flattening the curve” was to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. It was a delaying tactic, with no prospect of ending the disease. -
Challenges and a Coronavirus Vaccine
Opinion -President Trump recently announced “Operation Warp Speed,” a plan for a novel coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020. -
An “Austrian” Agenda for Post-Coronavirus Recovery
Opinion -The collectivism virus need not destroy us, if we immunize ourselves with the philosophy of liberty and market liberalism. -
U.S. EPA Maintains Current Soot Standards
Opinion -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced, after careful review of the best available evidence, it would retain, without changes, standards for particulate matter pollution, more commonly known as soot. -
Wind & Solar Industries Crushed by COVID-19
Opinion -Beyond the energy stability needed in hospital settings, the products produced from petroleum are what enables the heroic healthcare workforce needed today. -
Nicotine Policy Should Not Be Exempt From Science
Opinion -There seems to be an inclination among policy-makers that adherence to evidence-based policy-making is a luxury we can only afford when not in a crisis. -
I Finally Read Walden
Opinion -Walden is now regarded as a foundational text of natural history, ecology, and the modern environmental movement. Check out Joe Bast's review of the book. -
Common Core Has Led to ‘Historic’ Drop in Achievement Scores, Study Finds
Opinion -A new study has found the adoption of the Common Core State Standards has led to a 'historic' drop in student achievement scores. -
Alphabet Unit Experiment Shows Promise in Reducing Disease Bearing Mosquitos
Opinion -A project operated by Verily Life Sciences to wipe out mosquitos that spread diseases including dengue fever, malaria, West Nile virus, and Zika among others, is having success in tests at three sites in California. -
California Avoids Addressing Causes of Its High Energy Costs
Opinion -Californians will continue to pay some of the highest costs for electricity and fuel use as the state unexpectedly collides catastrophically with the global pandemic. -
Idaho Lawmakers Mull Fate of State’s Common Core Standards
Opinion -Idaho lawmakers are considering replacing the Common Core standards with a more rigorous and flexible plan -
Countering Pritzker’s Endless ‘Emergency’ Power Grab in Court
Opinion -The candor is refreshing. It is rare to see a public official openly resting upon the justification of Napoleon, the despot in George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm: "Some pigs are more equal than others." -
Markets and Medicines
Opinion -Would you try an unproven drug to treat COVID-19? Is it your right? -
States Suspending Plastic Bag Bans in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
Opinion -Numerous cities and states with plastic bag bans are suspending these policies in response to public health concerns raised about the safety of alternative reusable bags during the Coronavirus pandemic. -
Meeting the Terawatt Challenge
Opinion -Robert Bryce’s latest book lays out a powerful case for treating electricity as a human right. -
Proposed Violence Against Women Act Revisions Could Cost States Billions in Unemployment Benefits
Opinion -Legislators in many states are considering bills that would reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) on the state level, jeopardizing the solvency of state Unemployment Insurance trust funds -
COVID-19: Where’s the Evidence on COVID-19 Treatment?
Opinion -The American Medical Association and many other professional organizations demand “peer-reviewed science” before they will recommend or even accept the re-purposing of a long-established anti-malaria drug to treat or prevent COVID-19. -
Profile: ‘CAFE’ Program Provides Free-Enterprise Perspective to University Students
Opinion -The Colloquium for the Advancement of Free-Enterprise Education at the University of Texas-Dallas teaches students about the foundations and history of the nation's economic system -
Tale of Two Panics — Covid & Climate
Opinion -While they are occurring on vastly different time scales, the Covid-19 panic and the climate change panic are remarkably similar. -
Harvard’s Homeschool Haters
Opinion -The great majority of peer-reviewed studies on homeschooling finds that kids educated by their parents generally outperform their traditionally schooled counterparts in various ways. -
U.S. BLM Washington Insiders Quit Rather than Accept Relocation to the Nation’s Heartland
Opinion -More than half of the U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management’s Washington, D.C. staff have quit rather than accept transfers to Colorado and other western states to be closer to the lands they manage. -
Hawaii Democrats Are Pushing a Broad Carbon Dioxide Tax
Opinion -Senate Democrats who passed Senate Bill 3150 which would impose a $40 per metric ton tax on of carbon dioxide emissions beginning in 2021, incrementally increasing the tax rate in stages to reach a price of $80 per metric ton by 2030. -
Dueling Meta-Studies
Opinion -Clinical trials do more than inform us whether a drug is effective. They inform us when a drug is effective, in what combinations, in what dosages, and what are the counter indications.
