Commentary
Commentary
Fauci Has Only Himself to Blame for His COVID Legacy
“We have seen complete fabrications become some people’s accepted reality,” Dr. Anthony Fauci laments in his new memoir “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service.” Surely the good doctor means to speak about his ideological foes, who have long decried the heavy-handed response to COVID-19 that Dr. Fauci symbolizes. But today, ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 23, 2024
Commentary
We’re Closer Than Ever To Beating Alzheimer’s. Price Controls Could Change That.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved donanemab, a novel treatment for Alzheimer’s disease that Eli Lilly will sell under the brand name Kisunla. The drug targets amyloid, a type of protein that builds up in the brains of people with the disease. It was shown to slow the ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 22, 2024
Business & Economics
Biden’s rent-control plan will only make America’s housing crisis worse
President Joe Biden is suggesting that a federal limit on annual rent increases in residential units will ease housing costs. This is what happens when economist Milton Friedman isn’t “running the show”: Policymakers follow ideas that make the problem they say they’re solving infinitely worse. “While the prior administration gave special ...
Kerry Jackson
July 22, 2024
California
Read the latest on CA outmigration
Is Atlas shrugging in California?
The working title for the Ayn Rand classic “Atlas Shrugged” was “The Strike.” Rand wanted to show what the world would be like if the competent, the rational, the men and women of excellence walked away from their work. It was a “rebellion of the unrecognized and often persecuted creative ...
Kerry Jackson
July 18, 2024
Commentary
U.S. Left Take Note: UK’s Healthcare an Unending Nightmare
Great Britain has new leadership. The Labour Party rode dissatisfaction with the Conservative Party, and in particular its stewardship of the country’s National Health Service, to victory in this month’s elections. Democrats in the United States may hope they can follow their left-wing brethren to victory this fall by campaigning ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 17, 2024
California
Read the latest on Project Homekey
Disregard the spin. Project Roomkey is failing
In a blatant attempt to rewrite history, Gov. Gavin Newsom claims that Project Roomkey was a great success, which provides important lessons for other states. The only lesson other states should take from the governor’s program is what not to do. To facilitate this revision, research firm Abt Global was contracted ...
Wayne Winegarden and Kerry Jackson
July 16, 2024
Commentary
Biden has given us worse healthcare
President Joe Biden proudly touted his record on healthcare during last month’s disastrous presidential debate. “The American public has greater healthcare coverage today than ever before,” he proclaimed. That’s debatable, to say the least. His administration’s policies have caused health insurance costs to surge. Biden began his presidency by increasing public subsidies for coverage through the exchanges. ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 15, 2024
Commentary
Read Biden's latest defense of price controls on insulin
In Debate Biden Lost on Substance, Style, and More
President Joe Biden’s clumsy, halting performance at the first presidential debate was nothing short of disastrous. But the substance of his remarks, especially on healthcare, is just as worrying. Take his defense of the Inflation Reduction Act’s price controls on insulin for Medicare Part D enrollees. As the president put it, “We brought ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 10, 2024
Commentary
The Medicare doomsday clock ticks closer to midnight
One day, our grandchildren may talk about Medicare the way we talk about Bernie Madoff. In May, Medicare’s trustees released their annual report on the program’s finances, and things are not looking good. The entitlement spent $12 billion more than it took in from taxes in 2023. Absent change, Medicare’s ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 9, 2024
Commentary
Read about Biden's healthcare promises on the campaign trail
Joe Biden’s False Promise To Young Voters
In the lead-up to last month’s presidential debate, pundits predicted that President Biden would lean into his standard defense of his former boss’s signature healthcare legislation in a bid to attract young voters, whose lack of enthusiasm for the president has the White House worried. It’s safe to say that Team Biden ...
Sally C. Pipes
July 8, 2024
Fauci Has Only Himself to Blame for His COVID Legacy
“We have seen complete fabrications become some people’s accepted reality,” Dr. Anthony Fauci laments in his new memoir “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service.” Surely the good doctor means to speak about his ideological foes, who have long decried the heavy-handed response to COVID-19 that Dr. Fauci symbolizes. But today, ...
We’re Closer Than Ever To Beating Alzheimer’s. Price Controls Could Change That.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved donanemab, a novel treatment for Alzheimer’s disease that Eli Lilly will sell under the brand name Kisunla. The drug targets amyloid, a type of protein that builds up in the brains of people with the disease. It was shown to slow the ...
Biden’s rent-control plan will only make America’s housing crisis worse
President Joe Biden is suggesting that a federal limit on annual rent increases in residential units will ease housing costs. This is what happens when economist Milton Friedman isn’t “running the show”: Policymakers follow ideas that make the problem they say they’re solving infinitely worse. “While the prior administration gave special ...
Read the latest on CA outmigration
Is Atlas shrugging in California?
The working title for the Ayn Rand classic “Atlas Shrugged” was “The Strike.” Rand wanted to show what the world would be like if the competent, the rational, the men and women of excellence walked away from their work. It was a “rebellion of the unrecognized and often persecuted creative ...
U.S. Left Take Note: UK’s Healthcare an Unending Nightmare
Great Britain has new leadership. The Labour Party rode dissatisfaction with the Conservative Party, and in particular its stewardship of the country’s National Health Service, to victory in this month’s elections. Democrats in the United States may hope they can follow their left-wing brethren to victory this fall by campaigning ...
Read the latest on Project Homekey
Disregard the spin. Project Roomkey is failing
In a blatant attempt to rewrite history, Gov. Gavin Newsom claims that Project Roomkey was a great success, which provides important lessons for other states. The only lesson other states should take from the governor’s program is what not to do. To facilitate this revision, research firm Abt Global was contracted ...
Biden has given us worse healthcare
President Joe Biden proudly touted his record on healthcare during last month’s disastrous presidential debate. “The American public has greater healthcare coverage today than ever before,” he proclaimed. That’s debatable, to say the least. His administration’s policies have caused health insurance costs to surge. Biden began his presidency by increasing public subsidies for coverage through the exchanges. ...
Read Biden's latest defense of price controls on insulin
In Debate Biden Lost on Substance, Style, and More
President Joe Biden’s clumsy, halting performance at the first presidential debate was nothing short of disastrous. But the substance of his remarks, especially on healthcare, is just as worrying. Take his defense of the Inflation Reduction Act’s price controls on insulin for Medicare Part D enrollees. As the president put it, “We brought ...
The Medicare doomsday clock ticks closer to midnight
One day, our grandchildren may talk about Medicare the way we talk about Bernie Madoff. In May, Medicare’s trustees released their annual report on the program’s finances, and things are not looking good. The entitlement spent $12 billion more than it took in from taxes in 2023. Absent change, Medicare’s ...
Read about Biden's healthcare promises on the campaign trail
Joe Biden’s False Promise To Young Voters
In the lead-up to last month’s presidential debate, pundits predicted that President Biden would lean into his standard defense of his former boss’s signature healthcare legislation in a bid to attract young voters, whose lack of enthusiasm for the president has the White House worried. It’s safe to say that Team Biden ...