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

Rather than giving companies new tax breaks or a cut in their overall tax rate, the focus of tax reform should be to completely clean out the code of all the special interest tax breaks and loopholes that companies such as Mylan take advantage of. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg)

Mylan: The poster child of what is wrong with the tax code

By Washington Examiner Staff July 24, 2017 4:01 am

Three shades of gray for taxes and Airbnb

By Washington Examiner Staff July 17, 2017 4:01 am

The shift to e-commerce over the past nine years has saved American households roughly 64 million hours per week in reduced shopping time, the equivalent of 1.6 million full-time jobs.

Shift to e-commerce is saving time, creating jobs

By Washington Examiner Staff July 10, 2017 4:01 am

The first half of the 20th century saw remarkable progress in aviation speeds, going from the Wright brothers' historic first flight at 7 miles per hour to breaking to the sound barrier just 44 years later.

Fly from San Francisco to Tokyo in just five and a half hours

By Washington Examiner Staff June 26, 2017 4:01 am

From an economic perspective, the answer is certainly not "invest to the point where our airports feel as high quality as China's." But absent real markets, the amount "needed" is difficult to quantify -- an example of the "knowledge problem" associated with central planning.

Improving infrastructure requires private investment

By Washington Examiner Staff June 19, 2017 4:01 am

The Reagan administration cut funds and withheld maintenance and management funds to punish poor-performing housing authorities.

Trump risks a repeat of the ’80s with housing cuts

By Washington Examiner Staff June 12, 2017 4:01 am

Insurers, doctor and hospital groups have teamed up with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to ask Congress to continue paying Obamacare subsidies amid reports that President Trump wants to do away with them. The organizations said the uncertainty is creating turmoil on the individual insurance market. The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The paid-leave compromise dreamed up by two think tanks goes in the wrong direction

By Hadley Heath Manning June 6, 2017 9:57 pm

Maryland crab is delicious, if you can afford it. At $30 to $50 per pound, it's certainly not cheap. That's why I was curious to know just how much H-2B workers were valued by their employers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

No free market in Maryland crab picking

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

Using houses as ATMs helped cause the crash

By Washington Examiner Staff May 22, 2017 4:01 am

In fiscal 2013-14, the nation’s 50 richest PTAs raised and spent $43 million for the nation’s most affluent schools.

Parents contributing to the divide between rich and poor schools

By Washington Examiner Staff May 15, 2017 4:01 am

NEW LONDON, Conn - Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper, current director of National Intelligence, spoke to the Corp of Cadets, March 23, 2016, as the 2016 Hedricks Fellow
Clapper served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1992 until 1995, was the first Director of Defense Intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and simultaneously the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, was the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from September 2001 until June 2006, and on June 5, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Clapper to replace Dennis C. Blair as U.S. Director of National Intelligence. Clapper was unanimously confirmed by the Senate for the position on August 5, 2010.
Official U.S. Coast Guard photos by Petty Officer 2nd Class Richard Brahm.

Clapper joins DC security think tank

By Sean Langille May 9, 2017 3:14 pm

A migrant rescued from a rubber boat by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO, in the Mediterranean sea, about 56 miles north of Sabratha, Libya, on April 6. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

All the geopolitics creating the disaster in the Mediterranean

By Washington Examiner Staff May 8, 2017 4:01 am