Commentary

States and Municipal Lawsuits Undermine Innovative Climate Solutions

March 21, 2022

Environment

Cities and states are attempting to set the nation’s energy policies through the judicial system rather than the appropriate legislative process. Dozens of states and localities including New York City, Baltimore, and various California cities have filed suits claiming that oil and gas companies should...

Diversity Smokescreen

March 21, 2022

Education

By Henry I. Miller, M.S., M.D. and Andrew I. Fillat The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two more cases challenging the use of race as a criterion in college admissions, as has allegedly happened at Harvard University (a private institution) and the University of North...

Biden’s ‘Test to Treat’ COVID Plan: Good Sound Bite, Bad Policy

March 17, 2022

Healthcare

It ignores the risk of hazardous drug-drug interactions with the Pfizer pill. As someone who has closely followed and written extensively about the development of COVID-19 vaccines and drug treatments since the beginning of the pandemic, one pronouncement in President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech raised red flags:...

The private sector can help solve our doctor shortage

March 15, 2022

Healthcare

The pandemic has laid bare a crisis we’ve ignored for far too long — our chronic doctor shortage. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States faces a shortfall of up to 124,000 physicians over the next decade. This is a supply problem,...

Drug Pricing Reforms Should Expand Choice, Not Government Control

March 14, 2022

Healthcare

As President Biden's recent State of the Union address made clear, drug pricing will remain a top policy issue for the foreseeable future. The president is correct that something must be done, but his proposals are wrongheaded and will only make things worse. Instead of focusing...

States are eyeing a public option through rose-colored glasses

March 14, 2022

The Affordable Care Act will notch its 12th birthday later this month. To get the measure through Congress and to President Obama's desk for his signature, Democrats had to cut one of progressives' signature proposals—a public health insurance option. But the public option didn't die all...

Wealth Taxes are Economic Failures

March 11, 2022

By Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson California Assemblymember Alex Lee should have studied Europe’s experiences before introducing his wealth tax proposal. Had he done so, he never would have introduced Assembly Bill 2289 that, if adopted, would impose 1% annual tax rate on couples with net worths...

Newsom’s education agenda: More of the same means more failure

March 11, 2022

Education

While school mask mandates have garnered headlines, Californians should be as concerned about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed education agenda, which he championed this week in his State of the State address. It pours more tax dollars into a failing system without any requirement for better...

Biden’s Drug Pricing Theatrics, Schemes Mislead

March 10, 2022

Healthcare

In his State of the Union address last week, U.S. President Biden renewed his call for prescription drug price controls. He didn't argue for the policy on the merits. Instead, he tried to tug on our heartstrings by relaying the story of a 13-year-old boy with...

The Environmental Law That Is Strangling California

March 09, 2022

California

By Chris Carr Pat Brown, California’s governor from 1959 to 1967, helped make the University of California the world’s pre-eminent public university system. In 1970 he said that he had given “the highest priority to education, because I felt the greatness of California would depend upon...