Non-profit investigative journalism site ProPublica has obtained mountains of tax information, including data on the wealthiest 25 individuals in the United States. The claim promoted…
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Poor math skills lead to popular social media memes. “Jeff Bezos could give each American $1 million and still have money left over.” That’s not…
Reporter and podcaster Jesse Singal has given us a wonderful look into how and why social sciences promote junk science. The Quick Fix: Why Fad…
People kill people, it is true, but guns certainly make killing people easier. To reduce all gun deaths, we should: Amend the Constitution to clarify…
President Joe Biden has unveiled the American Jobs Plan, a $2.25 trillion investment in infrastructure and more. The “more” concerns me, as does the likelihood…
Since the start of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, pandemic, the United States federal government has allocated $1 trillion through administrative actions, $4.1 trillion through legislative…
Public and private failures have struck both California’s and Texas’ power grids in recent years. Why is this? Is this a failure of the marketplace,…
The second impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump is even more disappointing and more revealing than the first impeachment. The House of Representatives should have…
Do “Hero Wage” laws during the coronavirus pandemic lead to supermarket closures? The short answer is, “Rarely.” That still doesn’t make such laws good policy.…
The concept of a minimum wage troubles me. Many nations do well without mandated minimum wages, while others do well with complex minimum wage systems.…