Clark Packard Between the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and the 1970s, China’s economy was centrally planned. It engaged in little commerce and extreme poverty was widespread. Beginning in the late 1970s, China began a series of market‐​oriented

Jeffrey Miron This article appeared on Substack on September 22, 2023. The White House recently announced the granting of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Venezuelans who arrived in the US before July 31st, a special designation allowing them to stay and work for

John Mueller Regardless of how it ends, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is likely to go down in history as a massively counterproductive failure, and he may well be remembered as Vladimir the Fool, or, to update an infamous fifteenth

Travis Fisher A previous post showed that the total cost of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA’s) energy subsidies could reach $3 trillion. Subsidies so large cause a lot of problems—one being that advocates of a robust electricity infrastructure, like me, are now skeptical

Colleen Hroncich When the kids in Rosa Aristy’s homeschool co‐​op said they wanted to learn coding, the moms all looked at each other and wondered who was going to teach those classes. “The kids were so enthusiastic and wanted to learn