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It might seem a little ironic that a fundamentally libertarian document like the Great Barrington Declaration would be deployed in an attempt to obscure the enormity of the American state visiting mass death upon the American people. But it’s not...

If we want immediate and durable climate action, the time is right.

Yergin’s The New Map inflates the future importance and ongoing contribution of fossil fuels. The rapid evolution of consumer priorities and clean energy innovations spurred by the threat of global warming will redraw it quickly.

If there is no domestic carbon tax, stand-alone taxes on imported goods are import tariffs, not border adjustments, no matter what the policy is called.

As financing dries up, supplies will decrease, prices increase, and the shift toward renewable and other energy sources will accelerate. While making that argument, I cited the work of Daniel Yergin, Vaclav Smil, and others who believe that the...

Interest groups on both sides were ready for battle when President Trump nominated Amy Coney Barret to the Supreme Court. As Republicans vote to confirm her, how will voters respond?

Moderated by Niskanen's Matthew La Corte, the panel will explore the policy and politics of improving and expanding our refugee resettlement system, and how to rebuild bipartisan support for refugees.

Policy advocates engaged in changing public opinion rarely pay much attention to what the academic literature says about how public opinion is formed and how and why it changes.  That’s too bad, because while political scientists disagree about a...

To be clear, the blackouts experienced in California this summer were not caused by variable renewable energy. Rather, they were the result of both the failure to build the wider grid infrastructure necessary to support a low-carbon electricity...

It is well-known that the classical liberal economist F.A. Hayek dedicated The Road to Serfdom to “socialists of all parties,” and wrote the book “as a warning to the socialist intelligentsia of England.” I suspect  we now understate the importance...

We already know that Brett Kavanaugh will be a strong conservative on the Supreme Court, just like Neil Gorsuch, but not because of confirmation hearing vetting. Both were handpicked by the Federalist Society network, giving conservatives the...

Before 1980, refugees that resettled into the United States were sponsored by private individuals or religious communities. The Refugee Act of 1980 established the current system of publicly-funded refugee resettlement through the United States...

A recent study of physician incomes suggests potential paths for controlling U.S. health care costs.

What accounts for the increasing extremism of the Republican Party, and the polarization that has resulted from it? I argue that it stems from what many may view as an unlikely source: a decline in leadership by large American corporations, a group...