Think Tanks

The National Guard has defended our borders before

By Ammon Blair May 29, 2025 7:00 am

Can Linda McMahon help fulfill the promise of charter schools?

Annika Hernandez and Frederick M. Hess May 19, 2025

Most favored nation is a destructive price control

Christina Smith May 18, 2025

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) talks about the GOP immigration plan, during the senate's weekly policy news conference, in the Capitol, in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025.

The Senate should say no to Georgia in NATO

Eric Teetsel May 16, 2025

Mine our trash to get rare earth minerals

Howard Husock May 15, 2025

Generally, Google has broad power to police its platform and change its search algorithm to "de-rank" Russia Today. But there is a second possibility. Government officials may have threatened Google to bring about this "de-ranking." If so, the First Amendment poses questions for us. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Google needs the First Amendment, too

By Washington Examiner Staff December 4, 2017 5:01 am

Democrats for Prohibition, and other absurdities

By Washington Examiner November 29, 2017 5:01 am

While Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson claimed that the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit is one of the best tools for housing the poor, one of its major problems is that it doesn't really do its job. (AP Photo/Swayne B. Hall)

Ben Carson wrong about effectiveness of housing tax credits

By Washington Examiner Staff November 28, 2017 5:01 am

A think tank distributed the stress balls emblazoned with Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's image. The bright red balls are adorned with the words "But Gorsuch!" in reference to a popular social media meme. (Ryan Lovelace/Washington Examiner)

‘But Gorsuch’ stress balls give relief to distraught lawyers at Federalist Society conference

By Ryan Lovelace November 17, 2017 8:23 pm

Last year in 2016, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C. This year, the Society is holding another convention, with Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., welcoming the group of attorneys, press, judges, and other attendees, kicking off a three-day conference that will include debate panels, book signings, and multiple receptions. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

You’re about to hear a lot about “FedSoc” — here’s what it is

By Nicole Russell November 16, 2017 10:41 pm

The free-market think tank wants correspondence between a pair of former Obama officials and two environmental groups. (Wikipedia Commons)

Competitive Enterprise Institute re-ups lawsuit against State Department for not releasing Paris climate emails

By John Siciliano November 13, 2017 11:31 pm

Andrew Carnegie, founder of the Carnegie Steel Company, in his study in New York. (AP Photo)

Andrew Carnegie was America’s greatest entrepreneur

By Washington Examiner Staff November 13, 2017 5:01 am

The bill would be a $1.78 trillion net tax cut over 10 years, even greater than the $1.5 trillion estimated by Congress' own tax experts, the Tax Foundation study found. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate bill would cut taxes by $1.78 trillion, create 925k new jobs, study finds

By Joseph Lawler November 10, 2017 9:46 pm

As the Republican tax reform bill includes a less generous measure of inflation than allowed under current law and some of the tax credits for parents phase out after five years, many middle-class families would see tax hikes in future years. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

GOP tax bill would raise taxes on 7 percent of people, corrected think tank analysis finds

By Joseph Lawler November 8, 2017 8:09 pm

A narrow tax base reliant on volatile revenue sources, restricted funds and growing spending are all factors that made closing Alaska's budget gap this year very difficult.

Alaska should take a page out of Colorado’s tax book

By Washington Examiner Staff November 6, 2017 5:01 am

In this Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, photo, Zavian Tate, a student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, pushes a large Amazon Dash button, in Birmingham, Ala. The large Dash buttons are part of the city's campaign to lure Amazon's second headquarters to Birmingham. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Amazon should build its second home in a city that could use it

By Washington Examiner Staff October 30, 2017 4:01 am

Parents often push their children really hard when it comes to athletics; the same cannot be always be said with respect to academics. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Americans push their kids harder in sports than school

By Washington Examiner Staff October 23, 2017 4:01 am