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Jails and prisons present significant challenges to containing disease transmission.

While this seems relatively simple, the implementation of a border adjustment will require a well-thought out policy design.

There is mounting evidence that psychedelics are useful in treating mental health. It's time that public policy caught up.

For the American health insurance system, weaknesses exposed by the COVID-19 crisis include coverage that disappears when people lose their jobs, inadequate provision for pandemic risk, and incomplete coverage of screening and prevention.

Changes Made to the Asylum System During the Trump Administration

Biden's pick will help define the candidate and his party.

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The difference between import tax rates applied to industries creates an implicit subsidy to CO2 emissions in traded goods. Policymakers should keep this in mind when designing a carbon tax.

Remote naturalizations will give those who have waited patiently their new American citizenship without delay, prevent unnecessary backlogs from clogging the system, allow more new Americans to participate in the fall elections, and potentially even...

Occupational licensing reformers should place a greater focus on health care professions.

There are things we can do now that would address Republican concerns about irresponsible state budgets without stopping money from getting to states today.

The new Michael Moore documentary, “Planet of the Humans,” describes itself as a “frontal assault on the sacred cows of the U.S. environmental movement”, and has its sights set on blowing up the clean energy industry. Yet instead of offering a...

A targeted wage subsidy is the most efficient way to compensate essential workers.

President Trump has consolidated Republican support in Congress and the wider party network, despite a lot of initial concerns. Whatever became of the Never Trump movement that arose in the 2016 campaign?

The Niskanen Center is proud to announce its support for the Open COVID Pledge. In doing so, we are also publishing all Niskanen content–including content related to the COVID-19 pandemic–under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY 4.0)....