Xavier Becerra, California’s governor-elect, is on record that he would finish the state’s high-speed rail project “on budget ...

Data centers have commanded significant ire recently, as their power demand rises and ratepayers are concerned about price increases. But this is a faulty narrative. At least to this point, data ...

Last week, the FDA announced a recall of more than 4.3 million tubes of toothpaste. The recall covers 17 varieties, including ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Two socialists walk into a bar. One, a socialist of the more nationalist vintage—a ...

In its 2026 fiscal year that ended on September 30, the U.S. government collected $5.403 trillion in taxes but spent $7.396 ...

Automated license plate readers (ALPR) are also tracking bumper stickers, everything from “Back the Blue” to “Jesus Saves” and “Black Lives Matter,” and ...

In July, it was reported that rents in Los Angeles County had fallen to a four-year low. While rents remained high compared ...

The first line of Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities resonates even today: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” ...

On March 18, 2026, the Trump administration did something it does not often do: it suspended one of the oldest protectionist laws on the American books. For sixty days, the Jones Act—the 1920 statute ...

This book review appeared in the Winter 2009/10 issue of The Independent Review. In the darkest days near the end of the Great Depression of 1929–33, Franklin Delano Roosevelt emerged to become the ...

California voters are being told that Proposition 40 is a one-time levy on billionaires, but the economists who designed it ...

If there were an Economist’s Creed, it would surely contain the affirmations ‘I understand comparative advantage’ and ‘I ...