Publications
It’s no secret that civil society — the local, voluntary associations that knit together America’s communities — has been in retreat for decades. Numerous authors, including Robert Nisbet,…
On behalf of the R Street Institute, I welcome this opportunity to submit written testimony in anticipation of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (UCCR) briefing regarding the federal government’s…
At the heart of conservative thinking are the tenets of individual dignity, public safety, family values, and fiscal prudence. Yet far too often, society fails to apply these principles to the…
Discouraging cigarette smokers from switching to safer products is like dissuading people from using seatbelts: It will result in widespread, negative public health consequences. Yet a recently…
From The Christian Science Monitor:
“It is the Trumpist revolution,” adds Paul Rosenzweig, a fellow at the R Street Institute, a center-right public policy firm. A longtime conservative who…
As California Republicans head to their convention in Sacramento this weekend, they are buzzing about the big election to choose a new party leader, as former state Sen. Jim Brulte heads into the…
Last Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed Space Policy Directive-4, which orders the Department of Defense to establish a Space Force . According to SPD-4, the Space Force would initially…
It has been a tumultuous time for North American commercial relations. For too long, President Trump has misled the public about the supposed failures of the North American Free Trade Agreement,…
Democrats’ big new idea is the Green New Deal. Coined by Tom Friedman in 2007, the term has reemerged courtesy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the charismatic freshman congresswoman from the…
A federal regulator on the Federal Communications Commission has weighed in on e-cigarettes, proposing significant federal overreach.
E-cigarettes are the public-health crisis du jour, and FCC…