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January 31, 2024
How Should State and Local Governments Respond to Illegal Retail Cannabis?
…time, as with tobacco, public health authorities should mount education campaigns to minimize marijuana use, in light of its demonstrated dangers. How-Should-State-and-Local-Governments-Respond-to-Illegal-Retail-CannabisDownload Introduction Legal cannabis has become a fact of…
January 16, 2024
Dry January Should Be Drug Free
…alcoholism contributes to premature deaths—but slowly and over time. The wave of drug overdoses has hit hard—and in the moment, as we rightly wring out hands about “deaths of despair.”…
December 15, 2023
Pro-Family Policy Priorities for States
…to state. And many states are exploring how to orient their policy status quo in a more pro- family direction. At a time when many states are strug- gling to…
December 4, 2023
A Pro-Market and Pro-Social Economy
…owners of capital are just as inclined as ardent socialists to seek such favors. But only free markets have demonstrated the power to raise living standards over time. It is worth noting at this…
November 17, 2023
Male Malaise Is Not Just About ‘the Culture’
…men (aged 25–35) who are working full-time fell from about 80 percent in the 1990s to less than 70 percent today. For men without college degrees, the fall in full-time…
November 13, 2023
How The IRS Discourages Boomer Charity
…law, be taxed as income. That’s because they’ve not been taxed previously; putting aside funds in “tax-advantaged accounts” reduces income at the time they’re deposited. They are, instead, taxed upon…
October 24, 2023
Roanoke Atones for Urban Renewal—Artistically
…times to apply for a job delivering medicine on my bicycle. I was about ten or eleven and he always told me I wasn’t old enough. I was eager to…
September 29, 2023
How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised
…whites support aid to black communities. Meanwhile, blacks (and both rural and urban minorities) are about three times as likely to support this type of aid compared to whites. Despite decadeslong…
September 8, 2023
Is Vote Dilution Necessarily Bad?
…advantage, rather than an electoral weakness. As recounted in Israel in the Mind of America, the 1983 book by one-time New York Times reporter Peter Grose, Silver’s American Zionist Emergency Council set about…
August 24, 2023
Baby Boom Or Bust
…Stephanie, three Latter-day Saint home-schooling moms. The women have in the past pursued careers or owned businesses, and now they describe their full-time occupation as helping their children become well-rounded,…