The Kochs might discover that grand philosophical ideas nurtured, with their millions, in the Cato Institute dont quite translate to local newspaper coverage. Local newspapering has less to do with...
In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, New York Citys flagship public television station, WNET, has dropped the richest man in New York, carbon pollution billionaire David Koch, from its board of...
Its not the culminationthat will come soonbut a major step in work I direct at the Cato Institute to improve government transparency has been achieved. Ill be announcing and extolling it Wednesday...
Major news outlets often mislead readers by failing to report the fossil fuel funding of the conservative think tanks they cite and quote, according to a new study from the Union of Concerned...
Should there be a separation of school and profit? Many opponents of education reform seem to think so.
Its interesting to ask what is the craziest position taken by libertarians. Perhaps its their opposition to all government aid to the poor . Perhaps its their call for legalising fatal neglect by...
Mao Yushi , the 84-year-old economist who last year won the Cato Institutes Milton Freedom Prize for Advancing Liberty , is a prominent voice on one side of Chinas ideological gulf his free-market...
As reported in this Wall Street Journal article , Congress is creating a new federal criminal justice task force to address the problem of Congress creating too much federal criminal justice. The...
Robert Rector at Heritage Robert Rector, the lead author of the Heritage Foundations widely panned immigration study, stood by his claim Tuesday that immigration reform would cost taxpayers a...
The most potent illustration that Republicans have shifted their attitudes on immigration came Tuesday morning when all GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected an amendment from Sen...
A study comparing low-income people in Oregon who received access to Medicaid over the past two years with those who did not, found that those on Medicaid visited doctors and hospitals more often...
This week, the New England Journal of Medicine published a major study of Medicaid in Oregon which has rapidly emerged of a Rorschach test of sorts. That is, partisans on either side of the...
( The Blaze ) Is Melissa Harris-Perrythe MSNBC host who recently declared that kids belong to whole communities stirring up controversy again?
Have you noticed that Congress isn't going along with some of the broad preferences of the American people lately. Something between 86 and 91% of Americans-- depending on which poll you prefer...
As Sequest-airthe political fight over the flight delays caused by the Federal Aviation Administrations (FAA) decision to furlough air traffic controllersgained momentum yesterday, the Senate...
The Heritage Foundation made a splash early this week with a reportpredicting that the current immigration reform bill being debated in the Senate would cost the U.S. government $6.3 trillion...
(AP) The conservative Heritage Foundation is claiming in a new report that bipartisan immigration legislation pending in the Senate would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion.
I continue to be amazed by this chart . Its author is Andrew Coulson at the Cato Institute and it showsthere is no connection between the level of spending per student (adjusted for infation) and...
The New York Times is reporting that the Koch brothers, financial backers of various right-wing causes, may be interested in buying a group of newspapers owned by the Tribune Company. Tribune came...
Don't get me wrong, I like the word heritage . If you haven't noticed, I'm someone who often dwells in the past, and the whole idea of finding out stuff about the past, be it digging up ancient...