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Financial Times reports today some small signs that Cuba may be learning from the failures of its economic system. Cuba is thinking about makings its social welfare system a little bit less generous, More...

Freedom, Not Aid, Makes Other Countries Vote Like the United States

U.S. foreign aid does not induce support for U.S. policies at the United Nations, say Brett Schaefer and Anthony Kim. In a new paper for The Heritage Foundation, Schaefer and Kim find: Of the 30 l More...

Poland’s Choice

If Vladimir Putin thought invading Georgia would induce servility among Russia’s neighbors, he was wrong, at least as far as Poland is concerned. Reuters reports today that a new poll shows that suppo More...

High Corporate Taxes Hurting U.S. Competitiveness

Around the world, corporate tax rates continue to fall as countries compete for businesses. It’s a trend that so far has passed the United States by. Last year was the 17th consecutive year, accordi More...

Health Care Consumers Vote with Their Feet

More and more, says Devon Herrick of the National Center for Policy Analysis, patients are traveling abroad for medical treatment and insurance companies are developing plans that cover these services More...

The Ethanol Blunder

reason.tv with Nick Gillespie reviews all the reasons that growing food for fuel has been a horrible idea: More...

Still Work to Do for Gun Rights in D.C.

In D.C. v. Heller the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. Yet, according to Robert Levy and David Kopel of the Cato Institute, the District More...

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The Lesson of the XM/Sirius Merger

Source: The Cato Institute

Spectrum policy and telecom mergers should be depoliticized as much and as fast as possible so that neither continue to hinge on the demands of special interests and their politically appointed and elected allies. The innovation-crushing power of the FCC must More...

The FCC v. Indecency: George Carlin Remembered

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The FCC’s the fleeting expletive policy is beyond the pale of the very special and limited indecency doctrine the Court approved in Pacifica. In Fox v. FCC, the Supreme Court should overturn not only the fleeting expletive policy, but the Pacifica decision, to More...

Polish-U.S. Missile Defense Deal Makes Sense

Source: The Heritage Foundation

The United States and Poland have agreed on terms for deploying ballistic missile interceptors in the East European country. This agreement is in the best interest of all the members of NATO on both sides of the Atlantic. Congress should fully support deployme More...

100 Percent Air Cargo Screening Continues to Infect Homeland Security

Source: The Heritage Foundation

Congress has taken a completely wrong path with regards to cargo screening and should reverse course immediately. More...

Peer Review: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Washington Climate Advisory Team’s Recommendations

Source: The Washington Policy Center

Earlier this year, the Washington State Climate Advisory Team published its report on the strategies and costs associated with their identified strategies for reducing Washington’s greenhouse gas emissions. Their analysis, which was not peer reviewed, suffers More...

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