Commentaries

Four Principles for Expanded U.S. Tolling

Why future highways should be paid for by mileage-based user fees and other suggestions for highway funding

By Robert Poole
July 9, 2012

Rahm Emanuel and Big City Democrats Embrace Privatization

By Leonard Gilroy
July 6, 2012

Fourth Round of TIGER Grants Have the Same Problems as Previous Rounds

By Baruch Feigenbaum
July 6, 2012

Problems with the Government’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery Grants

How TIGER grants fail to prioritize national needs

By Baruch Feigenbaum
July 6, 2012

Social Security’s Trust Fund to Start Losing Value in 2013

By James D. Agresti
July 6, 2012

Stockton Begins Legal Battle in U.S. Bankruptcy Court Today

By Harris Kenny
July 6, 2012

Cities Taking Mortgages with Eminent Domain is a Bad Idea

Both Robert Shiller and city officials in San Bernardino County should reconsider their support for condemning underwater mortgages

By Anthony Randazzo
July 6, 2012

California Democrats, Deep Pockets, and Ideological Irrelevance

By Ankur Chawla
July 5, 2012

Mammoth Lakes, California Files for Bankruptcy

By Harris Kenny
July 5, 2012

DC Should Use PPPs for Express Bus and Forget About Streetcars

By Baruch Feigenbaum
July 5, 2012

Local, State Governments’ Assets Causing Budgetary Pains

Why all levels of government should apply the "Yellow Pages Test" to its activities

By Leonard Gilroy and John Palatiello
July 3, 2012

Innovators in Action: Indianapolis’ Parking Meter Lease, One Year Later

By Leonard Gilroy
July 2, 2012

California’s High-Speed Rail System Shouldn’t Get More Taxpayer Money

By Adrian Moore
July 2, 2012

5 Reasons the California High-Speed Rail Project Shouldn

Gov. Brown asks for billions in borrowing even as train system gets slower, shorter and more expensive

By Joseph Vranich, Wendell Cox and Adrian Moore
July 2, 2012

Four Ways the Internet Changed Poker

By Steven Titch
June 29, 2012

Eminent Domain to “Condemn” Underwater Mortgages: Another Bad Idea

Exploring the debate over principal reduction

By Anthony Randazzo
June 29, 2012

What has “Doomsday” Education Spending in California Wrought: Higher Graduation Rates and Test Scores

By Lisa Snell
June 29, 2012

Transportation Bill a Big Disappointment

By Robert Poole
June 29, 2012