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Attack of the Food Police
Why the government has no business banning Happy Meals
Steve Chapman
November 8, 2010
Does ObamaCare Reduce Health Care Spending?
The short answer is no.
Veronique de Rugy
November 5, 2010
Entitlement Reform? Not Their Cup of Tea
Tea Party candidates are backing off from serious spending cuts
Shikha Dalmia
November 1, 2010
The Amazing Elastic Commerce Clause
The individual health insurance mandate tugs on an overstretched federal power.
Jacob Sullum
October 20, 2010
ObamaCare’s Unseen Costs
Taxes will go up under the new health care law—and the costs will be more than you think.
Peter Suderman
October 15, 2010
Congress Can't Repeal Economics
More evidence against ObamaCare rolls in.
John Stossel
October 7, 2010
How to Slash the State
14 ways to dismantle a monstrous government, one program at a time
October 5, 2010
ObamaCare's First Major Casualties
Why the new health care law is bad for gays and aliens
Shikha Dalmia
October 4, 2010
Crass Market
How ObamaCare’s exchanges undermine quality health care.
Peter Suderman
September 30, 2010
Rogue States
The revolt against ObamaCare
Peter Suderman
September 14, 2010
Seven Empty Promises About ObamaCare
The president is still struggling to sell his plan.
Peter Suderman
September 9, 2010
Where Are the New Jobs?
Why bigger government isn't working
John Stossel
August 26, 2010
Paying More for Less
Medicaid fails taxpayers and patients.
Peter Suderman
August 6, 2010
Growing Pains
ObamaCare won't stop rising health care costs.
Peter Suderman
July 30, 2010
Rationing Debate
The case for and against President Obama’s newest health care administrator.
Peter Suderman
July 15, 2010
Temporary Funding Forever?
What happens when the federal government finally shuts short-term money down?
Peter Suderman
June 30, 2010
The Vanity Tax
The trouble with the government's new tax on indoor tanning services
Greg Beato
June 17, 2010
Obama’s Glamour Problem
Former reason editor Virginia Postrel on the economics of health care and the intersection of glamour and politics.
Ted Balaker
June 1, 2010
The Rise of Consumer-Driven Care
Will ObamaCare put a stop to the most promising way of controlling health care costs?
Peter Suderman
May 28, 2010
Is the Cure Worse than the Disease?
A month after passage, ObamaCare is already failing.
Peter Suderman
May 14, 2010
Paul Ryan: Radical or Sellout?
The GOP’s rising fiscal policy star is too cautious for radical economic reform yet too radical for his own party.
Peter Suderman
May 10, 2010
Down the Health Care Wormhole
How ObamaPelosiCare will saddle future generations with a public policy disaster
Terry Michael
April 19, 2010
Nursing Our Way Out of a Doctor Shortage
Why it's time to loosen the regulations on nurse practitioners
Steve Chapman
April 19, 2010
Health Care's History of Fiscal Folly
Expanding health coverage busted state budgets. Will it bust the federal budget too?
Peter Suderman
April 7, 2010
Red America, White Power
Is the Tea Party movement motivated by race hatred?
Michael C. Moynihan
April 1, 2010
It's Not You, Mitt—It's Me
The trouble with Mitt Romney
David Harsanyi
March 31, 2010
An Act of Hubris
The trouble with ObamaCare
Cathy Young
March 30, 2010
Masters of Distraction
Are Republicans "aiding and abetting terrorism" against Democrats over the health care bill?
David Harsanyi
March 29, 2010
States' Rights Versus Obamacare
States look to sue over health care mandates
Samuel Staley
March 26, 2010
Non-Violent Resistance to ObamaCare
Shikha Dalmia
March 26, 2010, 11:36am
How to Oppose ObamaCare
What critics of the president's health care plan can learn from Gandhi's methods of nonviolent resistance
Shikha Dalmia
March 26, 2010
Nancy Pelosi: Jobs Junkie
The Speaker of the House just can't stop talking about jobs
Katherine Mangu-Ward
March 24, 2010
The Mandate and Mug Clause
Where is the constitutional authority for ObamaCare?
David Harsanyi
March 24, 2010
Don't Buy It
The crazy constitutional logic of the individual health insurance mandate
Jacob Sullum
March 24, 2010
Health Care 2020
A dispatch from the future on the effects of health care reform
Ronald Bailey
March 23, 2010
The Lie of Fiscal Responsibility
Health care bill worsens nation's financial future
Peter Suderman
March 22, 2010
Dr. Obama's Idea of Change
Shikha Dalmia
March 22, 2010, 10:41am
Actually, The Process Does Matter
Why the Democrats are wrong to "deem and pass" the health care bill
David Harsanyi
March 19, 2010
The ObamaCare Quagmire
Launching an optional war against the American health care system will sink the Democratic Party
Shikha Dalmia
March 12, 2010
Repeal ObamaCare? Unlikely
Don't count on the GOP to clean up Obama's health care mess
David Harsanyi
March 10, 2010
Insurers Gone Wild!
Why health insurers welcome Obama’s plan to tame them
Jacob Sullum
March 10, 2010
Obama and the L-Word
The president’s habit of telling untruths
Matt Welch
March 9, 2010
Two Steps Forward, No Steps Back
The latest version of ObamaCare
David Harsanyi
March 3, 2010
A Bipartisan Solution to ObamaCare
Why Republicans should call their own summit
Shikha Dalmia
February 26, 2010
Obama Embraces Nixonomics
The folly of imposing wage and price controls
Steve Chapman
February 25, 2010
The ObamaCare Summit and the Republican Response
Shikha Dalmia
February 25, 2010, 10:06am
The Real Reason for Obama's Unpopularity
Every honeymoon ends
Steve Chapman
February 18, 2010
Passing ObamaCare Won't Make It More Popular
The public knows what's in the bill—and they aren't buying
Peter Suderman
February 12, 2010
Republicans: Take The Reins
Democrats botched health care reform. Now is your chance to turn it around.
Shikha Dalmia
January 27, 2010
The Cost of Doing Nothing
How ObamaCare revived the debate over the use and abuse of the Commerce Clause
Damon W. Root
January 21, 2010