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‘The dealers are protecting themselves, not protecting consumers’

Dan Crane on the fight for direct sales of vehicles

James M. Hohman | January 26, 2024

‘There’s no good outcome here’

Brian Riedl on what it will take to avoid catastrophic federal debt

James M. Hohman | January 12, 2024

‘I just think that’s a success, right?’

Sarah Curry on letting voters know what debts they’re being asked to approve

James M. Hohman | December 15, 2023

‘They can embrace radical policies with no repercussions’

Paul Gessing on the fight to keep gasoline-powered vehicle sales legal in New Mexico

James M. Hohman | December 1, 2023

‘Our civilization, our democracy, our society depend on that’

Alexandra Hudson on the Soul of Civility

November 17, 2023

‘That is what makes health care so different from every other sector of the economy’

Brian Blase on putting the customer back in the health care system

James M. Hohman | November 3, 2023

‘The moral argument is what wins’

Jimmy Walker on raising funds by making a better case for free-market ideas

James M. Hohman | October 20, 2023

‘We have to protect the parents who trust their kids with some independence’

Lenore Skenazy on the Let Grow Project

James M. Hohman | October 6, 2023

‘Thirty to forty years ago, this was actually a debatable question. Now that we have the data in hand it’s much less debatable’

Robert Lawson on the Economic Freedom of the World Index and improvements in economic liberty

James M. Hohman | September 22, 2023

‘If that sounds outrageous and corrupt, it’s because it is’

Pat Garofalo works to prevent lawmakers from signing nondisclosure agreements about business subsidy negotiations

James M. Hohman | September 8, 2023

‘Now it’s simply referred to as the Overton Window, as if everyone knows what it is’

Larry Reed and Joe Lehman on the Overton Window and Joe Overton

James M. Hohman | August 25, 2023

‘The power of these policies is to individualize education for children’

Jon England on supporting the changes in the education marketplace

James M. Hohman | August 11, 2023

‘This is my home and I’m going to fight for this thing’

Matt Paprocki on making a difference in Illinois policy

James M. Hohman | July 28, 2023

‘They say it adds up to real money’

Sheng Li on reinvigorating the separation of powers through lawsuits

James M. Hohman | July 14, 2023

‘Sometimes cynical explanations are the correct ones’

Chris Douglas on stadium subsidies

James M. Hohman | June 30, 2023

‘Argument is the great source of political power’

George Will on changing minds over 50 years of column-writing and how the Overton Window shifted in baseball

James M. Hohman | June 16, 2023

‘The federal government has stepped in and broken the market’

Preston Cooper on his plan to change federal college aid

James M. Hohman | June 2, 2023

‘The Great Depression pushed relegalization into the Overton Window’

Jason Taylor on the social changes that led to Prohibition and its repeal

James M. Hohman | May 19, 2023

‘It’s focused on destroying credibility instead of dealing with facts’

Jarrett Skorup on persuasion in the political debate

James M. Hohman | May 5, 2023

‘I think that’s a little bit of political cowardice’

Jon Sanders on putting bounds on the administrative state

James M. Hohman | April 21, 2023

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