High Earners Make Relatively Smaller Tax Errors
Chris Edwards Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden (D‑OR) held a hearing last week to counter the House Republican plan to
The Libertarian behind the World’s First Freedom of
Johan Norberg UNESCO has just designated the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act of 1766 a “Memory of the World.”
California Tries Charging for Electricity Based on Income
Marc Joffe In California, private sector innovation is giving way to public sector experimentation. From the state that pioneered special
Collateral Damage of IRS Audits
Chris Edwards The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 boosted the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget over the coming decade by
La Sombrita, or, How to Fail at Infrastructure
Paul Matzko Los Angeles spent $200,000 on La Sombrita (‘“in the shade”), a bus stop shade/light structure that provides little shade or
From Debt Ceiling Crisis to Debt Crisis
Romina Boccia The U.S. government teeters on the brink of defaulting on its payment obligations over the next few weeks
FBI Budget
Chris Edwards The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is in the news with the release of the Durham report and
SCOTUS Sidesteps Section 230
Will Duffield Gonzalez v. Google, a much‐watched Supreme Court case about whether Section 230 protects algorithmic curation, ended with a whimper on
Friday Feature: Compass Educators and Ellemercito Academy
Colleen Hroncich “Prior to the pandemic, I had never considered microschooling or delved into out‐of‐system learning environments,” says Lizette Valles, founder
The Theory and Practice of Rhetoric: An Interview
Erec Smith In an interview for the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), I discuss the theory and practice of