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Who Should Pay for the Arts? Private Support Beats Public Subsidies
Should the federal government subsidize the arts? Dancer Nora Younkin thinks so. In the Huffington Post recently, she argued that the societal benefits of arts such as dance are not only cultural and...
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e21 Asks: Should States Expand School Choice?
During National School Choice Week we asked e21 readers, “Should states expand school choice?” Readers were overwhelmingly in support of school choice, with “Yes” responses garnering 86 percent of the...
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Taxing Carried Interest Discourages Investment
President Obama’s proposal to tax certain returns on investments, known as “carried interest,” as ordinary income would raise taxes on some investment partnerships. It would bring in $14 billion over...
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More Choices for Veterans Mean More Efficiency in Care
Teaser: Will the Veterans' Affairs Department see reform? Both chambers of Congress have passed bills that would both expand the number of existing VA hospitals and allow some veterans to seek medical...
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Employer Health Plan Sponsors: Running Harder, to Stay in Place
Teaser: In the four years since passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we have heard a wide range of speculative predictions about how private employers sponsoring health coverage would respond....
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Obama Dances Around Serious Transportation Fixes
Teaser: As Congress mulls over a temporary patch for the Highway Trust Fund, President Obama is addressing infrastructure construction with his Build America Investment Initiative. The initiative is...
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The Potential UK Energy Renaissance?
Teaser: Prime Minister Cameron’s decision to go “all out for shale” is a welcome sign and will aid in reversing the trend away from energy independence. If done correctly, increased energy exploration...
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Emotional Storms Are No Response for Disasters
Teaser: Americans nurse their own very private and personal storm of emoto-thoughts when it comes to natural disasters. We want to do something, so we look for theories that support action.This article...
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'The [Uber] Rates Are Too Damn High'
Teaser: Hailo allows people to request taxis via their smartphones, similar to Uber's ridesharing model. Hailo is a small positive step for the besieged taxi industry, but it may be too late to...
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An Emerging Consensus: Medicare Advantage Is Working
Teaser: Since enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, much of the attention in the policy community has been on modernizing Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service (FFS) program. Through...
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An Emerging Consensus: Medicare Advantage Is Working And Can Deliver...
Teaser: Since enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, much of the attention in the policy community has been on modernizing Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service (FFS) program. Through...
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Credit Bush for America's Healthcare Spending Slowdown
Teaser: George W. Bush deserves more credit for the recent slowdown in U.S. health care spending than President Obama, who is much more eager to attribute the slowdown to his landmark 2010 domestic...
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Why You Were Waiting in a TSA Line This Weekend
Teaser: TSA has done nothing but grow in size and cost since it was created. Its record at stopping threats is dismal—if not non-existent—and its inefficiencies and disrespect for travelers would be...
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The Planned Parenthood Abortion-Funding Fallacy
Teaser: A ban on federal funding for abortions still leaves room for taxpayer support of abortion.The string of undercover Planned Parenthood videos released over the last several weeks has reignited...
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Guaranteed Renewability and Equitable Tax Treatment of Health Insurance
Teaser: How can policymakers get younger, healthy adults to essentially cross-subsidize older adults with pre-existing chronic conditions?Roughly one-quarter of the nonelderly adult population in the...
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