PolicyBytes

California is once again pushing for a state-based, single-payer health care system. The problem is that it is practically impossible for a state to cover all of its citizens.

If Vermont's drug importation scheme implies it doesn't care about the health and safety of its citizens, then let's hope the FDA and Department of Justice do.

A recent study found no indication that fracking contaminates groundwater? Didn't hear about it? That's the problem.

Republicans should be careful about job-training allowances in their "workfare" proposals because people will use that as a ruse to avoid work. Rather, employers will provide all the job training low-skilled workers need.

U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators are meeting to resolve trade tensions. One way to do that is for China to import more U.S. oil and natural gas.

President Trump seems to think we don't tax Japanese automakers, but we do. And Trump's suggestion would tax Americans instead.

Want to find more money to pay public school teachers? Begin draining the administrative staff swamp, which sucks so much money out of the system.

The U.S. economy has shifted from strength to uncertainty, and both because of President Trump's policies: Economic strength emerged from his regulation and tax cut efforts, and uncertainty from his tariff threats.

There are some good reasons for asking a citizenship question on the U.S. census that might inform various policy debates, such as identifying the number of uninsured.

There are multiple non-human-caused factors that affect Arctic sea ice: Here two of them.