A U.S. district court in San Francisco, in its infinite wisdom, has issued a ruling that threatens to make it virtually impossible — or just really, really expensive — for farmers to irrigate cropland. While the ruling currently only applies in California, it sets […]
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“Medicare for all” is a stepping stone to socialized medicine – and thence…
Responding to pressure from the Democratic Party’s leftwing, Nancy Pelosi has called for “Medicare for all,” as demanded by Bernie Sanders and dutifully parroted by his rivals as part of the party’s primaries. But the plan is a classic “Trojan Horse,” Steve Forbes argues, […]
Feds back down on private property grab
The U.S. federal government is not known for dialing back its authority or admitting defeat in cases with its own citizens — but this rarest of events has apparently come to pass in Louisiana, where the feds have given up on a sweeping land […]
More Trump tariffs coming for Europe?
A longstanding trade dispute between the U.S. and EU predates Donald Trump’s presidency — but he’ll be more than happy to roll out another round of tariffs in response, Politico reports. That’s the upshot of European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström’s warning to EU […]
Docs need options besides opioids for pain
The opioid epidemic in the U.S. has claimed an astonishing and horrifying 381,000 American lives through drug overdoses from 2005-2018, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Center for Health Statistics, and has driven at least one big pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma, […]
Pot of gold? Not quite: cannabis growers still looking for that rainbow
Legal cannabis may have seemed like the next gold rush, but it hasn’t quite turned out that way yet, as many of the biggest cultivators and distributors of medicinal and recreational cannabis are still seeking a pathway to profitability, according to Cannabis […]
U.S. needs military threat to negotiate credibly with Iran
Iran’s escalation of the not-so-secret proxy war in the Persian Gulf with two drone attacks crippling Saudi Arabian oil production, raises the obvious question of how the U.S. and it allies should respond. But America’s options are constrained in large part because of the […]
Watch out for Chinese interference in U.S. elections, too
While China often accuses the U.S. of interference in its internal affairs, most recently with Chinese claims of American assistance and encouragement to the Hong Kong protesters, the reverse scenario is at least as plausible warn AEI’s Zack Cooper and Laura Rosenberger in an […]
Brexit has knocked UK politics for a loop… forever?
The old political division between Left and Right which has long prevailed in the Western world is basically obsolete, and nowhere is this more evident than in Britain in the chaotic age of Brexit, argues Carnegie Europe visiting scholar Peter Kellner. […]
Big Tech’s argument: We’re just trying to help!
With the U.S. government and the attorneys general of numerous U.S. states starting probes against four of the biggest “Big Tech” firms — shorthand for Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple — the Wall Street Journal is helpfully reviewing both sides of the argument, presenting […]