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Medicare Advantage Reallocates Subsidies from the Sick to the Healthy
Tax Code Already Exempts Large Amounts of Income, Unevenly
Friday Feature: Apogee Dripping Springs
Minnesota Lawmakers Consider Removing Free Speech Protection for AI
5 Reasons the US Should Not Spend Another Penny on the War with Iran
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Michael F. Cannon Despite the love it gets from Republicans and insurance companies, Medicare Advantage is a lousy program. Multiple news items this week...
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Adam N. Michel Recent Democratic proposals to expand the amount of income exempt from the income tax highlight an existing feature of the US...
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Colleen Hroncich “I got into education sort of by accident,” says Sarah Pevehouse, founder of Apogee Dripping Springs microschool in Texas. After attending an...
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Kevin T. Frazier Minnesota legislators are considering a troubling amendment to their state constitution. In short, the amendment would carve AI out of the...
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Benjamin Giltner and Dominik Lett Reports suggest that the Trump administration is drafting an emergency funding request of up to $50 billion to support...
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Peter Van Doren Economists’ understanding of oil shocks has evolved over time. The original view was that reductions in supply from Middle East wars...
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Contrary to what the Modern Monetary Theory advocates and their Chartalist allies are claiming, the 1690 colonial Massachusetts issuance of fiat money did not...
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David Inserra, Jennifer Huddleston, and Christopher Gardner When it comes to kids online, policymakers often have the best of intentions. Even if they radically...
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Alex Nowrasteh Mohamed Bailor Jalloh murdered one person and injured two others in a terrorist attack on March 11 at Old Dominion University in Virginia....
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“77 percent of [Republicans] support the war, on average. But that’s exactly what we’d expect for almost any Trump policy.”
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Is the state necessary? In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon follows Aeon J. Skoble’s argument that we can do without the state...
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“Wright’s use of the word “unlikely” was a veiled concession that a spike to $200 was possible, though he repeated that the price jump...
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Silver isn’t a “Giffen good.” It’s a case of shifting demand, not broken economics.
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Colleen Hroncich “Phew!” That’s the sound echoing around Idaho today after the state supreme court ruled yesterday in favor of the new Idaho Parental...
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Jeffrey Miron President Trump’s suspension of immigrant visas for 75 countries took effect on January 21. The pause affects those who seek to immigrate to...
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John F. Early and Terence Kealey In our Cato working paper “Mission Lost: How NIH Leaders Stole Its Promise to America,” Terence Kealey and...