Opinion

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan convinced Congress to eliminate an ill-conceived requirement that states restrict investment in health care. Cronyism is hard to uproot, however. Almost 30 years later, 35 states and the District of Columbia still maintain these restrictions on medical investment. For a decade before Reagan’s reform, Washington had been leaning on state…

One of the unavoidable consequences of youth is the tendency to think behavior we see today has always been. I’d like to dispute that vision, at least as it pertains to black people. I graduated from Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin High School in 1954. Franklin’s predominantly black students were from the poorest North Philadelphia neighborhoods. During…

Presidential administrations today routinely make law without the approval of Congress. Commentators from across the political spectrum have both supported and opposed such behavior at one time or another largely because of the particular president or policy in question, not because of their views on the limits of executive power. Recent articles in the The…

Last week, the two major domestic performance rights organizations for the American music industry, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, (ASCAP), and Broadcasting Music, Inc., (BMI), threw down the gauntlet on the Department of Justice. They just announced that they will be using a joint strategy of legislation and litigation to get around…