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2026

Politics - OpinionHow to Evaluate the Electoral College

2025

Economics - OpinionThe Other Lesson of I, Pencil
Policy - OpinionACA Failures and the Limits of Technocracy
Economics - OpinionHow I'd Argue Meta v FTC
Policy - OpinionOren Cass's Case for Trade
Policy - AnalysisMedicaid Reform Cheatsheet
Economics - OpinionFive Things Miran Gets Wrong in His Trade Manifesto
Policy - AnalysisTariff Calculus
Economics - OpinionTrade Makes Us Rich Beyond Measure
Policy - AnalysisMedicaid Provider Taxes - An Explainer
Policy - AnalysisCutting Medicaid is Possible
Policy - AnalysisMaking Up for DOGE
Policy - AnalysisMaking Up for DOGE II
Media - PolicyEconomic Fear-Mongering
Politics - OpinionTrump’s Tariffs and the Major Questions Doctrine
Policy - LinksSocial Cost of Carbon
Policy - AnalysisThe Argument Against Extending ACA Subsidies
Policy - AnalysisAdministrative Costs Aren't Waste

2024

Policy - OpinionSocial Security and the End of the Age of Responsibility
Politics - OpinionDemocrats' Deal with the Devil
Politics - OpinionWhy Harris Lost
Policy - OpinionQuestions for Harris
Politics - AnalysisWhat's the Matter with Michigan?
Policy - OpinionFTC, Break Up the Longshoreman
Policy - AnalysisThe ACA Achieved None of Its Goals
Policy - OpinionDemocrats Implicitly Admit Corporations Are People
Policy - OpinionWhy the Child Tax Credit Should Not Be Expanded
Economics - AnalysisMusk's Case Against Advertisers
Politics - AnalysisLess is More Even in Election Polling
Policy - AnalysisMore Spending is Never Enough

2023

Policy - OpinionRepublicans Should Be Party of Law Enforcement
Politics - OpinionLet He with Reservations Cast the First Vote
Politics - OpinionThe Great Endumbening
Policy - OpinionBidenomics Sleight of Hand
Policy - OpinionArtificial Intelligence vs. Hayek: Can an AI Best a Market Economy?
Policy - OpinionToo Much Money Chasing More Than Enough Goods Through a Too Small Pipe
Policy - AnalysisBudget Cuts! - Some Context
Policy - AnalysisRedistributing Income Through Housing Policy
Media - OpinionWhat Star Trek can Teach us About the Dangers of AI
Policy - AnalysisWhy Challenging Student Loan Forgiveness is Challenging
Policy - AnalysisDid ACA Produce Free Healthcare?
Policy - AnalysisWasting Billions of Taxpayer Dollars - ACA Subsidies Edition
Policy - AnalysisExpanding Social Security is a Bad Idea
Policy - AnalysisNon-Competes and Physicians
Policy - QotDQuotation of the Day
Politics - OpinionSupremely Bad Decisions
Policy - AnalysisDoes Access to Medicaid Improve Health?
Economics - OpinionWhen Competition Goes Wrong
Policy - AnalysisThinking 4th Dimensionally About Costs
Politics - OpinionGiving Schiff the Boot
Policy - QotDQuotation of the Day
Policy - OpinionBureaucrats Don't Know Best
Policy - analysisThe Technocrats' Utopia

2022

Policy - QotDQuote of the Day - December 15, 2022
Policy - OpinionPolicy for the Experts or for the People?
Policy - analysisBillions of Taxpayer Funds Up in Smoke
Politics - QotDQuotation of the Day
Politics - Opinion2022 Mid-Term Post-Mortem
Politics - OpinionTrump's Kryptonite
Business - OpinionWelcome to Twitterdome
Policy - AnalysisNot Enough COLA
Media - OpinionThe Beat Beat Beat of the Abortion-Media Machine
Politics - OpinionTrump's Future Electoral Viability Depends on Senate Outcome
Policy - OpinionThe Year Progressive Assumptions Collapsed
Media - OpinionThoughts on Don't Look Up
Policy - OpinionGerrymander Rejoinder

2021

Policy - OpinionDemocracy Dies in Boredom
Policy - OpinionOn Peter Thiel, Apoplexy, and the Definition of a Loophole
Policy - OpinionOpen Your Eyes to Your Tribe's Failings
Policy - OpinionLet the Market Build EV Stations
Policy - OpinionBiased News - Dissection of an Article
Policy - OpinionIs Raya and the Last Dragon about 2021 America?
Politics - OpinionDouble Standards Wrecking America
Politics - OpinionHow the Left Wins - Marjorie Taylor Greene Edition
Politics - OpinionThe Media, Then and Now
Politics - AnalysisThe Resumption of the Unskeptical Press

2020

Media - AnalysisCensorship for Thee but not for Me
Politics - AnalysisThe Definitive Case for the Filibuster
Law - AnalysisAudit of FISA Applications Provide More Evidence of Political Motivation for Carter Page Warrants
Politics - OpinionNike is Becoming a Corporate Karen
Media - AnalysisGoogle's Glaring Hypocrisy on Section 230
Media - OpinionDoom and Gloom Media Wrong Again
Media - AnalysisArguing with Strawmen; Avoiding the Issues
Media - AnalysisCompare and Contrast: Flynn Edition
Media - Analysis"The First Casualty of Hyperpartisanship is Nuance"
Media - AnalysisThe New York Times's House of Cards
Media - AnalysisJournalistic Malpractice - Coronavirus Edition
Economics - AnalysisWhy We Don't Build
Media - AnalysisUpside Down Media Coverage
Media - OpinionFinding the Lead Lining
Politics - AnalysisDemocrats have no Idea What to do with Strong Economy

2019

Politics - OpinionDemocrat Admits Issues with Trump Driven by Economic Policy Difference
Policy - OpinionObstruction of Justice Charges Ranked
Media - OpinionFact-Checking an Entertainer's Exaggerations
Economics - AnalysisDevising a Terrible Poll to Cover for Socialists
Economics - AnalysisDoubling Down on Bad Programs
Policy - AnalysisQuestions for All - Medicare for All Primer for Journalists
Policy - OpinionGovernment Shutdown Media Coverage
Media - OpinionQuestions the Media should have asked about Buzzfeed Bombshell

2018

Law - AnalysisTravel Ban Decision (Trump vs. Hawaii)

2017

Media - AnalysisMedia Arbitration
Policy - OpinionDems ask Trump admin to keep young people's health costs high
Politics - OpinionHere We Go

2016

Media - OpinionHard Hitting Interviews
Politics - OpinionFree Stuff
Media - OpinionTrump Effects Economic Knowledge in the Media

2015

Law - AnalysisKing vs. Burwell - ACA Round 2
Policy - OpinionA Can of Worms
Media - AnalysisHeadline Lying

2014

Politics - Opinion(Don't) Be the Change you Want to See in the World
Media - OpinionDemagoguing the Supreme Court
Media - AnalysisTV Stats Don't Add Up
Politics - OpinionCyndi Lauper Just Wants to Have Fun (at Your Expense)
Politics - OpinionObama's Foreign Policy Grading on a Curve
Law - OpinionFree Speech Zones
Law - OpinionMy Employer Denies Me so Much
Law - OpinionAbstinence = Blood Transfusion
Law - OpinionSally Kohn Wrong in So Many Ways
Policy - OpinionScary...
Policy - OpinionReproductive Rights?
Law - OpinionOverreacting to the Supreme Court
Politics - OpinionThe Art of Not Answering
Policy - OpinionIncompetence is Not A Perfect Storm
Policy - OpinionA Coup at the CBO?

2013

Economics - OpinionHas the Left Learned Nothing from Economics?
Policy - OpinionAnti-Free Trade?
Economics - OpinionProve It, Krugman
Politics - OpinionIt's Official. Obama Lied.
Policy - OpinionLaws should have Expiration Dates
Policy - OpinionLiberals Avoid Reason in Favor of Moral Assertions
Politics - OpinionObama's Foreign Policy
Politics - OpinionThe Left Doesn't Believe in Science
Politics - OpinionThe Left is More Convincing
Policy - OpinionRedefining Subsidy
Politics - OpinionHurricane Katrina Analogy
Economics - OpinionThe Battle over the Definition of Insurance
Policy - OpinionAnti-Science Left
Policy - OpinionEven Liberals Don't get Obamacare
Policy - OpinionGlobal Warming Slowdown
Politics - OpinionDemocrats Admit Actions Politically-Motivated
Economics - OpinionIf You're not a Socialist, You're a Monster
Media - OpinionHow the Media Deceive
Policy - OpinionThey Just Don't Understand Nuance
Economics - Opinion"Research" on Middle-Out
Politics - OpinionAnd the Record for Most Time on Meet the Press without Answering a Single Question...
Policy - OpinionPresident Obama Mischaracterizes Tax Burdens
Economics - OpinionEconomics is not a Religion
Law - OpinionBad Analogy
Politics - OpinionBad Analogy II - Tom Toles
Law - OpinionUnited States v. Windsor - A Summary
Law - OpinionUnited States vs. Windsor - Scalia Quotes
Politics - OpinionThis is not Democracy
Politics - OpinionUncharacteristic Comment from Putin
Politics - OpinionFor Our Own Good
Law - OpinionHollingsworth v. Perry - A Summary
Economics - OpinionDebating the 1 Percent
Law - OpinionSupreme Court Polarization
Policy - OpinionThe Objectives of Obamacare
Policy - OpinionLibertarians versus Liberals
Politics - OpinionLiberal Debate Strategy: Redefining Baselines
Politics - OpinionLiberal Debate Strategy: Appeal to Humanity
Policy - OpinionSpend More on Infrastructure - Now Now Now
Policy - OpinionSocial Security and Income Inequality
Policy - OpinionThe Democrats' Debt Accumulation Cycle
Politics - OpinionHere's a Surprise
Media - OpinionOur Long National Nightmare is Over

2012

Politics - OpinionHow Can Things Be So Different?
Policy - OpinionTax Cuts for the Wealthy!
Policy - OpinionQuestions I Wish the Media Would Ask
Politics - OpinionBad Research - Why the Poor Favor Democrats
Media - OpinionIf Libertarians Ran the Media
Policy - OpinionCharitable Giving
Policy - OpinionMore Redistribution
Policy - OpinionThis Is Fairness?
Policy - OpinionRedistribute!
Policy - OpinionMajority of People Want Someone Else to Pay
Economics - AnalysisWhat is the Market Price for Labor?
Policy - OpinionLet Hostess Go Bankrupt
Policy - OpinionPaul Krugman's Zombie Ideas
Policy - OpinionHow Government Harms Consumers
Economics - OpinionUnsustainable Monopolies
Media - OpinionCandy Crowley Failed
Politics - OpinionVice Presidential Debate
Media - OpinionPurpose of Debate Moderator
Politics - OpinionFilibuster Now! Filibuster Forever!
Policy - OpinionChallenge Accepted
Politics - OpinionAssorted Links
Politics - OpinionReidiculous
Politics - OpinionVoting for Free Stuff
Politics - OpinionA Depressing Campaign
Politics - OpinionPoisoning the Well
Politics - OpinionThey'll Be Sorry
Politics - OpinionA Challenge to Liberals
Policy - AnalysisSomething Doesn't Add Up
Politics - OpinionHypocritical Outrage
Policy - OpinionBizarro World of Welfare Reform
Politics - OpinionWhat's Good Enough for Them
Policy - OpinionLives Must Be Saved
Policy - OpinionYay Federalism!
Law - OpinionOverturning Precedents
Law - OpinionThe Constitution - A Crippling Burden We Can't Escape
Politics - OpinionHopeless?
Policy - OpinionInsuring the Youth
Policy - OpinionLet's Grow Government!
Politics - OpinionDemocrats Against Science
Policy - OpinionDo As I Say Not As I Do
Policy - OpinionThe Left's Universal Argument for Regulation
Policy - OpinionNet Neutrality?
Economics - OpinionLibertarian Nightmare
Law - OpinionStill No Consistent Argument
Policy - OpinionHealth Care is Different. So What?
Policy - OpinionAn Offer That Can't Be Refused
Politics - OpinionJennifer Granholm Does Not Understand Federalism
Policy - OpinionOne Giant Leap for a Liberal
Policy - OpinionOne Small Step for a Judge

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