Policy, Government & Analysis
Stewart Jones Stewart Jones is an Eighth Generation South Carolinian who enjoys running, writing and advancing the cause of liberty in the South Carolina House of Representatives (SC HD 14). He is a C...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 Last week, Senate Democrats called an emergency meeting of the Rules Committee to suspend the rules in order to introduced S.329, an omnibus gun bill, to join H.606 which is cu...
Even Bill Cosby Deserves Due Process Why Adding Accused Capitol Rioters to the ‘No-Fly’ List Threatens Civil Liberties Why Kyle Rittenhouse’s Crowdfunded Legal Defense Shouldn’t Be Controversial 7 Rea...
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi said of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, “If this goes through, kiss life on earth goodbye. The debate on health care is life/death. This is Armageddon.” Senator Chuck Schumer sai...
Monday, April 20, 2026 Last week, legislators on Capitol Hill delivered a significant victory for hunters and Second Amendment supporters by securing a critical fix to the House Farm Bill ( Farm, Food...
In 1788, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter that, “Paper is poverty. It is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.” Jefferson and the Founding Fathers understood the history and dangers of a go...
Monday, April 20, 2026 Anti-gun lawmakers in the Empire State are running out of things to ban. New York already prohibits a broad category of so-called “assault weapons,” almost all magazines capable...
Bitcoin hit an all time high on Sunday, reaching $3,000 per Bitcoin. Ethereum also reached a record level, trading at $407. Since this time last year Bitcoin is up over 360%, Etherium is up over 2,000...
Monday, April 20, 2026 On Friday, April 17th, the Nebraska Legislature adjourned Sine Die, officially concluding the 2026 Legislative Session. During this session, lawmakers considered several measure...
Why do people trade with each other at all? Because it makes them better off. As Iain Murray’s and my paper “ Traders of the Lost Ark ” opens: Imagine yourself on a tropical island. Plenty of sunshine...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 On Tuesday, April 21st, the North Carolina General Assembly kicked off their yearly legislative session at the capitol in Raleigh. Even years are considered short sessions in N...
The Tax Foundation released the map above (“The Relative Value of $100 ” ) earlier this week in a post titled “ The Real Value of $100 in Each State .” Here are some details: This map (above) shows th...
A new Housing Policy Toolkit from the White House admits that “local barriers to housing development have intensified,” which “has reduced the ability of many housing markets to respond to growing dem...
President Joe Biden’s new $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal includes a surprising provision: raising the federal minimum wage to $15. The fight for a higher minimum wage is not new, although it h...
If you have spent much time on Facebook the last few days, you may have seen this meme being passed around from a user named Thomas Corbett : It has already been shared over 109,000 times, and it is j...
I wrote earlier this month about one of the potentially fatal flaws of California’s recently enacted $15 an hour statewide minimum wage: a one-size-fits-all uniform $15 minimum wage for the entire sta...
Thanksgiving is almost upon us and the time has come for that most sacred of American traditions: bemoaning the rising cost of living. Per this Bloomberg headline on Thursday, “ Thanksgiving Meal Cost...
Wage appreciation, or lack thereof, does not tell us everything we need to know about our standard of living. Wages often fail to capture changes that come from competition and technological breakthro...
It may come as a surprise to you that the United States has been financing a welfare program that takes money from the poor and gives it to the rich. If you read a lot of modern macroeconomic literatu...
With midterm elections approaching, ideological battlegrounds are being staked out—and few carry greater promise of enticing voters than minimum wage policy. Recent political developments in this area...