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Growth of Government and Accountability to Society

August 13, 2012

A Golden Opportunity

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Can’t anyone free California from deficits and dysfunction? By Michael J. Boskin and John F. Cogan.

August 13, 2012

The Fed Needs a Spine

Clearer signals about interest rates are well and good, but what the Fed really needs to demonstrate is strength to reject political pressure. By Thomas J. Sargent and William Silber.

August 13, 2012

Free-Market Medicine

A simple treatment for soaring costs and infectious bureaucracy. By John F. Cogan, R. Glenn Hubbard, and Daniel P. Kessler.

August 13, 2012

Why Reading Matters

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Literature still offers the keys to self-mastery. By Victor Davis Hanson.

August 13, 2012

Healthy Schools, Healthy Economy

Want to boost growth and reduce inequality? Focus on education. By George P. Shultz and Eric A. Hanushek.

August 13, 2012

The Risks of a "Sputnik moment"

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Do we really want the federal government to launch a national curriculum? By Williamson M. Evers.

August 13, 2012

The Roberts Tango

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Where the chief justice tripped himself up in the health care decision. By Richard A. Epstein.

August 13, 2012

Dangerous Intervention

The Fed has been given too much power and too much discretion. Why we must rein it in. By John B. Taylor.

August 13, 2012

Dim Bulbs

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The energy market needs competition, not federal handouts. By Michael J. Boskin.

August 13, 2012

A Strong Case for Freedom

This clash of candidates is not about policies but about visions—and conservatives see more clearly. By Bruce S. Thornton.