1+ hour, 52+ min ago  (473+ words) An exploration of positive externalities Editor's Noted: This article first appeared on Independent. org in 2018 and is reprinted with permission from The Library of Economics and Liberty. Caplan asks what specific benefits came about because of the American Revolution. There…...

17+ hour, 57+ min ago  (193+ words) The question is whether the Constitution guarantees the right to possess AR-15 platform and similar semiautomatic rifles. Such comments belittle the Supreme Court's continuing references to the common use test." In resolving"Viramontes"and"Grant, it's unlikely the Court will…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1130+ words) Independent Institute Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate Dani Rodrik, an economist in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, has written a very ambitious book,…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (330+ words) With the'median sale price of a single-family home'exceeding $400, 000 since the pandemic, federal politicians have been champing at the bit to show voters they are working to lower housing costs. The recently passed bipartisan 21st'Century ROAD to Housing Act is Congress's…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (234+ words) That's a reversal from where things looked to be heading. During oral arguments this past April, the Court sounded like they were ready to let geofence warrants persist with limited time and space." The 6-3 decision tackled the application of geofence…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (944+ words) Independent Institute How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong The need for occupational licensing reform has emerged as one of the few topics where one can read a statement from former President Obama and…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (215+ words) There was also an international factor that did not help at all: by then, the commodities supercycle that had funded the left's populism in the early part of the new millennium had subsided. The prices of commodities are a determining…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (695+ words) Restoring housing market vitality on the local level is the sustainable solution The U. S. Senate version of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, now going the U. S. House of Representatives for approval, is a mixed brew of a few good ideas and…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (764+ words) Gavin Newsom likes to boast that California has the world's fourth-largest economy. So why can't it build high-speed rail, while Morocco'which ranks 57th'has had it for years? "The California High-Speed Rail Authority recently awarded its first track and systems contract…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (762+ words) This article appeared in the Summer 2026 issue of The Independent Review. Should we worry that total fertility rates have fallen? Yes, we should worry, because declining fertility rates (and aging) will cause a fiscal mess. The question, then, is not…...