Editor’s Pick

Mike Fox Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is typically a picturesque landscape. Yet on the afternoon of May 11, that serenity was shattered when 46-year-old Tyler Brown opened fire on passing…

Tad DeHaven A series of reports this week shows what happens when government equity stakes and, by extension, policymaking decisions are routed through the White House’s deal-making machine. State corporatist…

Christopher Gardner and Juan Londoño Across the United States, bills have been proposed on “algorithmic,” “surveillance,” and “dynamic” pricing. A phenomenon of many names, policymakers are primarily responding to the…

Norbert J. Michel and Jai Kedia Last week, my colleague Jai Kedia and I posted a short piece titled “Cochrane Is Right About the Fed’s Predicament. Here’s the Reform Agenda.” We…

Clark Packard There is a legitimate case for reducing American dependence on Chinese rare-earth minerals and processing. China controls more than 90 percent of the downstream value chain for rare-earth processing…

Jeffrey Miron In 1921 and 1924, Congress set nationality-based quotas for immigration.  Recent research looks at the impact  on the intergenerational mobility of US-born men.… [The authors use] county-level measure[s]…

Jeffrey A. Singer To address physician shortages and help make health care more affordable, many states have enacted laws granting provisional licenses to international medical graduates (IMGs) who have been…

Thomas A. Berry, Dan Greenberg, and Kimberly Coleman America faces a housing crisis, and that crisis has become particularly acute in New York City. The City’s rate of overcrowding is…

Romina Boccia and Krit Chanwong Social Security’s long-term shortfall is likely significantly worse than projected. In 2025, the Social Security Trustees estimated that the program faces a 75-year funding shortfall equal…

Solveig Singleton The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) established federal ground rules for financial privacy in 1999. The Republicans of the House Financial Services Committee now offer an update, the ‘‘Guidelines for…