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• President Obama's Top Five Health Care Lies
  Tony Soprano Care
  Shikha Dalmia
  July 2, 2009
• Lift Restrictions on School Outsourcing in California
  Other states and school districts are saving millions by contracting out non-instructional support services
  Lisa Snell
  June 30, 2009
• Government to Examine Exclusive Cell Phone Deals
  Should the FCC regulate who can sell an iPhone?
  Steven Titch
  June 30, 2009
• Regulation Proposals Could Lead to JP Morgan Mae and Citi Mac
  The White House regulation proposal will inadvertently turn private companies into government sponsored entities
  Anthony Randazzo
  June 25, 2009
• California Must Control State Pension and Benefit Costs
  Currently facing an unfunded liability of over $48 billion for state retiree health and dental benefits
  Adam Summers
  June 22, 2009
• The Myth of Financial Deregulation
  Government action caused the economic crisis, not the free market
  Anthony Randazzo
  June 22, 2009
• Can the U.S. Copy Spain's High-Speed Rail System?
  In America, the reality of high-speed rail will fall far short of the hype
  Samuel Staley
  June 19, 2009
• Medicare Is Not the Model for Health Care Reform
  The "public option" health care plan will not be financially sustainable
  Shikha Dalmia
  June 18, 2009
• Get Real About Bakersfield City Pensions
  Bakersfield has nearly $100 million in unfunded pension liabilities
  Adrian Moore
  June 18, 2009
• Do the Economics of Piracy Demand the Privatization of the Sea?
  Privately controlled waters would generate new solutions
  Veronique de Rugy
  June 16, 2009
• Are Charters a Drain on Traditional Public Schools?
  Charters are a legitimate part of the public school system
  Lisa Snell
  June 12, 2009
• Who Do Charters Educate?
  The numbers prove that charters help disadvantaged students
  Lisa Snell
  June 11, 2009
• Congress Is Hiding Cap-and-Trade Energy Price Increases
  Central fact of the cap-and-trade proposal is that it will increase the price of energy
  Ronald Bailey
  June 10, 2009
• Massive, Expensive Expansion of the Pell Grant Program
  President Obama wants to make college grants into an entitlement. Bad idea.
  Michael C. Moynihan
  June 10, 2009
• The Beginning of the End of Private Health Insurance
  How President Obama's public health insurance option will quickly evolve into the only option
  Ronald Bailey
  June 10, 2009
• How Much Freedom Do Charter Schools Deserve?
  Oakland owes a lot to its charter schools
  June 10, 2009
• Is America Following the Policies that Caused Japan's "Lost Decade"?
  Federal government is repeating many of the same mistakes that created Japan's Lost Decade
  Anthony Randazzo, Michael Flynn and Adam Summers
  June 10, 2009
• Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Without Reducing Mobility
  Focusing on cutting vehicle miles traveled is the wrong approach
  Robert Poole
  June 9, 2009
• California: Harbinger of Fiscal Doom
  What the Golden State's bleak future means for America
  Brian Doherty
  June 3, 2009
• Obama's Betrayal on Don't Ask Don't Tell
  The president's forgotten civil rights promise
  Shikha Dalmia
  June 3, 2009
• The Federal Deficit Grows and Grows
  President Obama's first budget promises "fiscal responsibility"—and delivers the opposite.
  Veronique de Rugy
  June 1, 2009
• California's Silent Big Spenders
  Political class refuses to explain why the state requires hysterical spending growth
  Matt Welch
  May 29, 2009
• Dear GOP: Please Choose Liberty
  Even non-Republicans need a strong opposition
  Shikha Dalmia
  May 20, 2009
• President Obama's Energy Plans Have a History of Failure
  Alternative energy subsidies make their biggest comeback since Jimmy Carter
  Ronald Bailey
  May 20, 2009
• Waxman's Cap-and-Trade Plan Functions Like a Tax Increase
  Proponents need to stop pretending cap-and-trade will cost nothing and create tons of jobs
  Ronald Bailey
  May 20, 2009
• Video: Privatization in the Age of Obama
  How governments can cut costs and improve services through privatization
  May 19, 2009
• Recognizing the Limits of Transit-Oriented Development
  Examining whether or not transit and light rail stations drive economic development
  Samuel Staley
  May 18, 2009
• Put the Patients' Welfare First in Hospital Privatization Dispute
  Legislature sacrificed psychiatric patients' well-being to retain legacy jobs on state payroll
  Leonard Gilroy and Anthony Randazzo
  May 14, 2009
• Reason.tv Video: Hasta La Vista, Arnold
  What California's Budget Mess Means for America
  Nick Gillespie and Ted Balaker
  May 14, 2009
• The Economic Impact of President Obama's Health Care Tactics
  No major industrialized economy with universal health care has performed better than the U.S. in the last decade
  Shikha Dalmia
  May 6, 2009
• High-Speed Rail Plans Should Be Called Moderate-Speed Rail
  True high-speed rail would cost tens or hundreds of billions more
  Robert Poole
  May 5, 2009
• High-Speed Rail Won't Help the Masses
  High ticket prices and too few stops and stations will make them trains for the wealthy
  Samuel Staley
  May 1, 2009
• Collapse of Midway Deal "Not a Setback for Privatization"
  MuniNet Guide Interview with Reason's Leonard Gilroy
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 30, 2009
• Meddling Congress Wants to Set Your Pay
  It started with CEOs, now Congress wants to tell bank tellers and janitors how much they can make too
  Anthony Randazzo
  April 29, 2009
• Seattle's Long-Range Plan To Beat Traffic Congestion
  Expanding capacity, toll roads and private capital are keys to mobility
  Samuel Staley
  April 24, 2009
• Hospital Privatization Isn't a Scary Proposition, Patients Should Come First
  Letter to the Editor
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 23, 2009
• Port Privatization Trend Growing
  More ports looking to public-private partnerships to fund improvements and expansion
  Shirley Ybarra
  April 23, 2009
• Getting California Back on Track
  Rip up the government's credit cards, institute a spending limit, and prioritize programs based on effectiveness
  Adam Summers
  April 22, 2009
• Nothing to Toast in California's Proposed 'Dime a Drink' Tax
  False claims about alcohol's costs and lost wages are being used to push tax increases
  Edward Stringham
  April 20, 2009
• President Obama Fails the Kids in the DC Voucher Program
  Ignoring the program's big successes, Congress and Obama pay off the teachers' unions
  Shikha Dalmia
  April 20, 2009
• Feds Should Allow the Market to Work Freely
  The consequences of federal intervention in the financial system
  Anthony Randazzo and J. Dustin Pope
  April 16, 2009
• Roanoke Schools Embrace Privatization to Cut Costs, Focus on Education
  Privatizing transportation will free up money for classroom
  Leonard Gilroy
  April 14, 2009
• Illinois Government Should Shop Around
  Council on efficient government would bring common-sense budgeting to state
  Leonard Gilroy and Kate Campaigne
  April 9, 2009
• State Governments Face Deficits and Fiscal Trouble Because of Spending
  From 2002 to 2007, state spending rose 50 percent faster than inflation
  Adam Summers and Michael Flynn
  April 9, 2009
• Cap-and-Trade Handouts
  "The largest corporate welfare program ever enacted in the history of the United States"
  Ronald Bailey
  April 9, 2009
• California Wants to Ban Your Big Screen TV
  This nanny state plan arrives in the name of energy efficiency
  Steven Titch
  April 9, 2009
• GM Should Run To Bankruptcy Court
  By avoiding bankruptcy, GM only risks trading union demands for federal tyranny
  Shikha Dalmia
  April 2, 2009
• India's Faulty Exceptionalism
  India isn't suffering during this global slowdown, but needs more openness to trade
  Shikha Dalmia
  April 1, 2009
• Adding More Transparency to Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Projects
  Ways to de-politicize the process
  Robert Poole
  March 31, 2009
• Rolling Out TARP II
  Creating an unnecessarily subsidized market in toxic assets
  Anthony Randazzo
  March 27, 2009
• California's High Taxes and Burdensome Regulations Drive People and Businesses Away
  State's credit rating is worst in nation and businesses say it is the worst place for entrepreneurship
  Adam Summers
  March 26, 2009
• Government Officials Say Sweeping Financial Overhaul Is Coming
  New financial regulations could make things worse if Congress isn't careful
  Anthony Randazzo
  March 23, 2009
• Making Sure the Broadband Stimulus Money Isn't Wasted
  How to find the areas not being served, and unlikely to get high-speed Internet services
  Steven Titch
  March 20, 2009
• Even During the Recession Private Companies Are Investing In Ports
  Private sector is driving modernization efforts
  Shirley Ybarra
  March 19, 2009
• The Inconsistencies In President Obama's Education Plans
  The rhetoric on charter schools, firing bad teachers and merit pay sounds good, but where is the follow through?
  Lisa Snell
  March 18, 2009
• Fear Is the Economy's Biggest Problem Right Now
  Obama has followed Bush and Paulson's lead using fear to push bailouts and policies
  Anthony Randazzo
  March 6, 2009
• Second National Commission Gets It Mostly Right
  Commission offers a series of valuable policy proposals
  Robert Poole
  February 28, 2009
• Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Failure
  If the California governor is the face of "moderate" Republicanism, the party is even more doomed than the 2008 elections suggest
  Matt Welch
  February 28, 2009
• Innovative Solutions Needed to Fix L.A.’s Budget
  L.A. should follow Chicago's lead on public-private partnerships
  Adam Summers
  February 23, 2009
• Sharpening the Budget Saw in Virginia
  Arizona bill offers a blueprint for right-sizing state government
  Leonard Gilroy
  February 17, 2009
• State Budget Crises Arrive Like Clockwork
  Lawmakers once again turn to cigarette taxes to balance their budgets
  Michael Flynn
  February 11, 2009
• The Great Union Debate
  Card check: unions' salvation?
  Shikha Dalmia
  February 6, 2009
• What's So Smart About Investing in the Smart Grid?
  It makes no sense to throw $4.5 billion at electric power infrastructure
  Ronald Bailey
  February 6, 2009
• Government Intervention Might Delay the Economic Recovery
  Every recession contains the seeds of its own regeneration
  Shikha Dalmia
  February 4, 2009
• The Benefits of Tax Cuts and Alternatives to Stimulus Spending
  Seven steps Congress should take to end the recession and jumpstart the economy
  Anthony Randazzo
  February 4, 2009
• A National Infrastructure Bank?
  Proposed bank can fill a niche, but current proposal needs to be refocused
  Robert Poole
  February 3, 2009
• Stimulus Plan Expands Government More Than It Stimulates
  Bill funds 31 new programs or agencies at a cost of over $136 billion
  Anthony Randazzo
  February 2, 2009
• The Fallacy of "Fiscal Stimulus"
  Stimulus during the Great Depression delivered an unemployment rate of 25 percent
  Adam Summers
  February 2, 2009
• Thomas Frank Is Wrong About Toll Roads
  Public-private partnerships focus on most-needed infrastructure, unlike pork that is baked into government spending
  Robert Poole
  January 29, 2009
• President Obama's Fuel Economy Standard Follies
  Politicians want you to pay more when you drive. They just won't admit it.
  Ronald Bailey
  January 27, 2009
• Transportation Spending Won't Stimulate Economy
  Infrastructure projects aren't really ready-to-go and using private sector financing could save taxpayers hundreds of billions
  Shirley Ybarra and Anthony Randazzo
  January 27, 2009
• Huge Stimulus Plan Won't Change the Education System's Status Quo
  Throwing money at failing schools won't boost test scores or graduation rates
  Lisa Snell
  January 27, 2009
• USDA Tries Pricing and Trading Environmental Benefits
  Bringing ecosystem services out of the political realm and into the market would be welcome news
  Skaidra Smith-Heisters
  January 26, 2009
• California's Spending Addiction
  What caused the deficit? State spending has increased 92 percent in 10 years
  Adam Summers
  January 26, 2009
• Bush Was Big Government Disaster
  He expanded the state, and the sense that the state is incompetent.
  Nick Gillespie
  January 24, 2009
• Detroit Bets Its Future on Washington
  Carmakers seek to please Congress instead of customers
  Shikha Dalmia and Henry Payne
  January 24, 2009
• Obama Needs to Push for Online Stimulus Transparency
  Government may have already spent $8.4 trillion in bailouts and stimulus, where did it all go?
  Anthony Randazzo
  January 21, 2009
• The Five Core Principles President Obama Should Follow
  Calls for massive stimulus package will make Obama's first 100 days even more critical
  Samuel Staley
  January 20, 2009
• Examining Sprawl in Europe and America
  Europeans are moving to the suburbs too
  Wendell Cox
  January 16, 2009
• Florida Benefitting from Prison Privatization
  Applying competition to corrections delivers cost savings, accountability
  Leonard Gilroy
  January 16, 2009
• No Biofuels Bailout
  Farm energy pork wastes money and harms the environment
  Ronald Bailey
  January 13, 2009
• Practical Reasons Why Stimulus Spending Doesn't Work
  Tax cuts are much preferable way to stimulate economic growth
  Anthony Randazzo
  January 8, 2009
• Making Sure Infrastructure Stimulus Isn't Pork Parade
  There were 6,371 earmarks in the last highway bill
  Samuel Staley and Adrian Moore
  January 7, 2009
• Funding System for Roads and Bridges Is Broken
  Gas tax should be replaced by direct user fees
  Adrian Moore
  January 5, 2009
• Time to Consider Tolling the Interstates
  Tolls could play a critical role in reconstructing and modernizing Interstates
  Robert Poole
  January 1, 2009

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