Jeffrey A. Singer Birthing centers have been gaining popularity as alternative venues for labor and delivery. Nurse midwives usually operate them. In some regions of the country, such as rural Alabama, they enable African‐​American women to give birth in culturally familiar places with more compassionate treatment

Chris Edwards Government legislators pursue spending increases because they believe that spending solves problems in society and benefits their constituents. However, they use methods of fiscal illusion to try to hide the costs of spending. One method is debt. By borrowing, legislators push the costs down

Neal McCluskey Over the last few years, there has been a surge in challenges to books in public school libraries. These “banning” battles have drawn considerable attention – and alarm – but they miss deeper questions: How do public schools select books in the first place, and

Gabriela Calderon de Burgos Since Javier Milei not only made the campaign for Argentina’s presidency a three‐​horse race but became the likeliest to occupy the Casa Rosada this coming December, there has been much reporting in the international press about dollarization, his frontline proposal. On this topic,

Jeffrey A. Singer In April 2022, when the Food and Drug Administration announced plans to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and cigars, I blogged about it, explaining why it was a bad idea. Later, in response to the agency’s request for public comments on the proposal, I submitted