Author: Jon Miltimore

Last March, Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said the rejection of a proposed amendment to the CARES Act would mean inmates “like the Boston Bomber”—Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev—would get stimulus checks. “Every Democrat voted to send checks to prisoners, and every Republican voted to stop prisoners from getting checks,”...

Elon Musk made a bold claim on Twitter on Tuesday. The Tesla founder said he would “pay more taxes than any American in history this year.”...

Surly celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is reportedly heading to Texas—or at least his corporate headquarters is, the Dallas Morning News reports. CEO Norman Abdallah, who runs the Hell’s Kitchen star’s restaurants across North America, told the paper he’ll oversee the debut of 75 company-owned locations over the next few years,...

In April, police officers located Lisa Hanson in Clear Lake, Iowa about 40 miles south of the restaurant she owns....

Basic economics teaches us that the solution to high demand is more supply, not price controls....

Biden’s admission about the limits of renewable energy deserves attention....

History teaches us something important about inflation: it can spiral out of control just that fast....

Timeless insights from some of the greatest thinkers in economic history....

Political violence is far too real and far too dangerous to treat as a partisan tool....

It turns out voters and lawmakers in progressive states arrive at decisions like everyone else: on self-interest. But that's not all....