How did the government get into the business of decreeing how many miles per gallon new cars (and trucks) must deliver? The authority to do this is nowhere to be found in the Constitution — though some will say, rightly,…
After many years of working in the policy world, I have concluded that politics is at most 10 percent about making the world better and safer. The rest is at least 45 percent theater and 45 percent catering to special…
The cosmetics at your local store need new rules and enhanced oversight, according to Congress. Tucked deep inside the 4,155-page omnibus spending bill is the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022. Americans should be skeptical of the measures in…
In recent months, governments around the world have been making unprecedented encroachments on how private actors do business, often with disastrous results. In Sri Lanka, an onerous new organic-farming regime was imposed on the nation’s producers, precipitating a serious economic…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California policymakers love to lecture the rest of the world about climate change and the need to shift power generation from fossil fuels to renewables such as wind, solar, and hydropower. So it was ironic that Gov….
Democrats in general, and the Biden administration in particular, would have you and other potential voters believe that they are friends of the little guy and opponents of Big Business. Thus, for example, a banner headline on the front page…
Crime doesn’t matter — but compliance does. The distinction is important because it conveys something important about the true nature of the government we endure. Crime — actual harms caused to real people — goes largely unpunished because it does…
It’s the beginning of a new year. It’s almost the beginning of a new presidential administration, too. In theory, now is a perfect time for some resolutions: to start fresh, fix the mistakes of the past or do what we…
Washington On Saturday, President-elect Joe Biden introduced his climate team at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden’s would-be energy secretary, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, talked about U.S. investment of trillions for “electric cars, solar panels, wind turbines and…
