Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| The Nanny State The Nanny State fails to incorporate willpower as a relevant force in its model, thereby removing culpability and the importance of self-control from consideration... |
| Racial Separation in America's Neighborhoods, 1890-2010 A half-century ago, one-fifth of America's urban neighborhoods had exactly zero black residents; today, black residents can be found in 199 out of every 200 neighborhoods nationwide... |
| Press Freedom Index 2011-2012 In the 2011-2012 Press Freedom Index, the United States dropped to 47th out of 179 countries from 20th out of 178 countries in 2010... |
| Proposed Federal Rules Would Limit Kids' Work on Farms Children will be limited from working on neighbors' and relatives' farm plots because of burdensome new regulations announced by the Labor Department... |
| Just How Dangerous Is Talking and Driving? Texting while driving increases the probability of a crash by a factor of 20 times; talking on a cell phone increases the probability by just 1.3 times... |
| Rushed Regulation Reform The Affordable Care Act's interim final health care regulations received rapid review at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, averaging just five days, compared to an average of 27 days to review proposed economically significant regulations in 2009... |
| Defects in the Constitutional Amendment Process and a Reform Proposal Article V of the Constitution should be reformed to allow two-thirds of the state legislatures to propose a constitutional amendment which would then be ratified or rejected by the states... |
| Cayman Is Rich, Belize Is Poor. Why? Cayman and Belize are small Caribbean countries with the same climate and roughly the same mixed racial heritage, but Cayman has about six times the real per capita income of Belize... |
| The Case for an Executive Reorganization The executive branch, consisting of 157 separate bodies, is far too decentralized and multilayered to be efficient... |
| Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes and Political Stability In well-established democracies, sudden resource windfalls have no effect on changes in the political climate... |
