By Steve Pociask, American Consumer Institute As businesses nationwide start to map out reopening for the near-term and the post-pandemic world, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is also facing its own experience in hitting the reset button. New Postmaster General (PMG) Louis DeJoy recently took the reins of the organization following the departure of PMG […]
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Washington Beyond the Headlines: Real Ideas for Police Reform
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor We all know the bad news – you can take your pick! So here’s the good news: free market policy people keep right on working through the storm, offering perspective and policy options to lead us to better times. This week’s news … “Fixing” the Police. Some […]
Dropping qualified immunity would change police behavior
“Yes, Abolishing Qualified Immunity Will Likely Alter Police Behavior” By Jay Schweikert, courtesy of the Cato Institute Yesterday, the New York Times ran an op‐ed by Professor Daniel Epps, titled “Abolishing Qualified Immunity Is Unlikely to Alter Police Behavior.” I’m fully aware that op‐ed authors generally don’t get to pick the titles of […]
Washington Beyond the Headlines: Tax Cuts at Stake In November
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor Wow! Busy week. Some states are opening, some states are dragging their feet, the stock market is climbing, employment is rocketing back up but people are still social distancing unless they’re protesting. And, in the true American spirit, some people just have never stopped working through it all, […]
WHO’s Failings: Time for a New UN Health Agency?
By Roger Bate, AEI President Trump has halted funds to the World Health Organization (WHO). Undoubtedly he is looking to avoid blame for a slow U.S. government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the tens of thousands of US deaths. But he also has a point. We need a global agency to combat […]
Fred Gluck: Imagining a Bipartisan, Systematic Approach to Healthcare Reform
By Fred Gluck, TES Contributor As COVID-19 rivets our attention on health care, all proposed fixes for our health care system – from Medicare for All to a lightly regulated free market model – have the same fatal flaw. They merely tinker with the status quo, a slapdash, piecemeal design that will never […]
The Reality of Obamacare and Consumer Sovereignty
By Aaron Morrison, American Consumer Institute Earlier this year, the Supreme Court decided that they will hear the most recent challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The challenge, now referred to as California v. Texas, calls on the Supreme Court to repeal the ACA. Yet, simply repealing the ACA […]
Freed from regulatory shackles, drug firms step up on COVID-19 testing
“Temporarily Unshackled Private Sector Responds to Demand for More Coronavirus Tests” By Jeffrey Singer, courtesy of the Cato Institute I and others have attributed much of the initially flat‐footed response of public health officials to the coronavirus pandemic to cumbersome, inflexible, and outdated regulations controlling the development and distribution of drugs and tests. As I pointed […]
Warren’s “Medicare for All” isn’t progressive — it’s conservative
By Michael Ostrolenk, transpartisan social entrepreneur Sen. Elizabeth Warren is among the few contenders who qualified for the next round of debates. She is also one of the most vocal candidates in support of expanding Medicare for All programs. Progressive as expansion may appear on face value, the reality is that […]
Time for U.S. and Canada to join the tech metals race
By Larry Reaugh, CEO, American Manganese What makes your smart phone smart? How do electric vehicles propel us down the highway? How does power from the sun and wind reach the light switch in our homes? Materials scientists know. So do the technologists that create the devices and apps we rely on. The […]