Opinion
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California Screens Children for “Toxic Stress”
Opinion -Beginning this year, California will pay doctors to screen low-income Medi-Cal patients for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), also known as “toxic stress.” -
The American Experiment, Revisited
Opinion -Democracies around the world are in trouble. After a good, long run with freedom flourishing, we suddenly find ourselves with dysfunctional governments that appear incapable of dealing with problems in a rational manner. -
Education Department Considers Income Share Agreements as Alternative to Student Loans
Opinion -Under the ISA model, the student pays little or no tuition up front, and repays education costs as a percentage of their income. -
Maine Lawmakers Push for Expensive Electric School Bus Purchases
Opinion -Citing an impending “climate crisis,” Maine state Sen. Eloise Vitelli introduced as emergency legislation a bill setting a goal for the state Department of Education to transition the school bus fleet to 100 percent electric buses by 2040. -
Patients Encounter Loopholes with Colorado’s Insulin Cap
Opinion -Patients in Colorado are learning the state’s insulin price cap, which went into effect January, is not all it’s cracked up to be. -
Capitalism and Its Intellectual Property: No Coronavirus Solution Without It
Opinion -Capitalism is the best solution to deal with the Coronavirus. -
U.S. Supreme Court Considering Second Amendment Case
Opinion -The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to strike down a New York City law that prevents residents from transporting firearms outside of their residences. -
Companies Join Forces to Open U.S. Rare Earth Mining and Processing Facilities
Opinion -Texas Mineral Resources and USA Rare Earth are joining forces to open a rare earth mining operation in Texas and a minerals processing plant in Colorado. -
Illinois Takes Steps to Control the Price of Insulin
Opinion -Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill into law that caps the out-of-pocket price of insulin at $100 for a 30-day supply. -
Don’ts and Dos on Coronavirus
Opinion -How do you plan on surviving the Coronavirus? We have the ultimate list to help you make it through this pandemic! -
Socialism and the Horrors of Communism
Opinion -Young Americans seem oblivious to the horrors of socialism and communism. Bernie Sanders is brainwashing our youth. -
To Kill Markets Is the Worst Possible Plan
Opinion -The Coronavirus outbreak will bring long-lasting lessons to all people of Earth. The one message we must fight is that big government solved the crisis. -
A Reflection on the Pandemic
Opinion -We see how powerful and terrifying nature and the unknown can be for us, today, notwithstanding all the vaunted science and technology we have at our disposal. -
The Late Freeman Dyson: Climate Realist
Opinion -When mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Freeman Dyson died on February 28, the world lost an exceptionally brilliant humanist. -
Appeals Court Upholds Rejection of Arkansas Medicaid Work Rule
Opinion -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a March 2019 lower court decision that blocked Arkansas from implementing a work rule designed to help able-bodied Medicaid enrollees back into the workforce. -
Partners in Liberty: National Center for Public Policy Research
Opinion -The National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) was created not to be just another think tank but rather a “do tank” providing the freedom movement with what its founders called “missing ingredients for success.” -
Dr. Death: How Joe Biden’s Coronavirus Specialist Thinks Old People Should Die
Opinion -Joe Biden, who is 77, has named Ezekiel Emanuel as head of his advisory panel on the coronavirus. Emanuel famously wrote an Atlantic article on how people should be dead at age 75. -
How Exactly Do They Plan to Replace Fossil Fuels?
Opinion -They want to ban coal, oil and gas. Exactly how will they replace them? Who wins? Who loses? -
Medicaid Transparency Rule is Raising Hackles of States, Providers
Opinion -Governors, health care providers, and several lawmakers want the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to retract a rule designed to increase transparency in Medicaid spending. -
Commentary: Unaccountable Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Exercises Illegitimate Power
Opinion -the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) will soon be at the center of a Supreme Court battle over the fundamental nature of the Constitution’s separation of powers. -
U.S. Education Department Denies Nonprofit Status to Grand Canyon University
Opinion -DOE recognition of GCU as a nonprofit would allow the school to receive federal student aid with few strings attached. -
Coloradans Support Child Safety Accounts, Poll Finds
Opinion -Most likely voters in Colorado want the government to provide Child Safety Accounts (CSAs), a survey reports. -
Researchers Genetically Modify Mosquitos to Prevent Dengue Fever
Opinion -Scientists have developed a process for implanting the human antibody for dengue fever into mosquitos, potentially blocking their ability to pass the disease on to people. -
Court Orders U.S. Energy Department to Set Efficiency Standards
Opinion -Federal courts have ordered the Trump administration to impose energy efficiency standard upgrades for four set of appliances first proposed under the Obama Administration.
