British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced last week that London had given Storm Shadow missiles to Kyiv. Soon after, Ukraine debuted its new weapon in strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory. These strikes are likely part of a broader effort to create conditions for Ukraine’s ...
Call it the “one weird trick” for America’s healthcare. This week, a panel of public health experts gathered in Washington for a “Common Sense Public Health” roundtable — simple, relatively inexpensive policy reforms with minimal costs but significant benefits. Those policies are ...
Wars can drag on forever. History tells of the Hundred Years’ War, the Eighty Years’ War, and the Thirty Years’ War. The 2001-2014 Afghanistan War is considered America’s longest conflict. Yet sometimes, wars wrap up with surprising swiftness. Take history’s shortest war. How long ...
The 2024 Republican primaries are underway — six candidates, including former president Donald Trump, have already announced, and more than a dozen other Republicans have their eyes on the nomination. As former state Republican Party chairs in Michigan and Utah, we’re excited about this ...
The Department of Defense last year requested $773 billion in fiscal year 2023 funding for its operations. This $773 billion represented a $30.7 billion increase from the previous year’s enacted amount — and accounts for half of all discretionary spending in the federal budget. But even ...
Like many economics professors, I frequently get emails from a variety of cranks and conspiracy theorists. Occasionally, I get an interesting email question about my research on economic freedom. It’s complicated, but in a nutshell, my work generally shows that countries with more economic ...