Opioid overdose deaths have risen dramatically in the United States over the past two decades. The standard explanation blames excessive prescribing by physicians and aggressive marketing by pharmaceutical companies, beginning in the 1990s. This explanation ...
Of many bold ideas pitched in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed “Green New Deal,” the boldest may be her plan for paying its multitrillion-dollar price tag. We can do it, she said in a blog post ...
“In a negotiation, you’re not going to get everything you want. Why not just accept the Withdrawal Agreement and finally get Brexit over the line? Otherwise you risk losing it entirely.” The above quotation is ...
Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and Representative Francis Rooney (R., Fla.) hope to rejuvenate an old idea, proposing a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress. The measure deserves to pass, but ...
President Trump’s decision to shut down the government because Congress was supposedly spending $5.7 billion too little, rather than too much, was hardly a traditional budget priority for conservatives or libertarians. But the overheated partisan ...
The British public, a host of commentators on Twitter, and even some economists seem to think so. A recent YouGov poll asked Britons whether a 30 per cent fall in property values after Brexit would ...
Economic commentators Matt Yglesias, Paul Krugman, and Noah Smith believe Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) call for a 60 to 70 percent top marginal income tax rate is uncontroversial. According to all three, the New York ...
We are in the third week of the federal government’s partial shutdown. The shutdown is affecting the lives of many federal workers and may soon start disrupting the broader economy. Because the government exerts control ...
Russia’s Vladimir Putin is ruthless when dealing with adversaries — as when his navy shot up a Ukrainian vessel seeking to enter the nearly enclosed Sea of Azov. The facts appear to back Kiev, though ...
The US election results were clear evidence that for midterm American polls, Bill Clinton’s mantra is wrong. It’s not “the economy, stupid” that determines outcomes. Polling prior to the vote showed 65pc of Americans rated ...
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