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Economics

New Jersey’s Plastic Bag Ban Backfire, Explained

February 21, 2024 | Jon Miltimore
Politics

Why Matt Walsh Is Wrong to Call for a Pit Bull Ban

October 17, 2023 | Benjamin Seevers
Politics

Pet Alligator Bans are Unnecessary and Reckless

September 14, 2023 | Benjamin Seevers
Economics

The Real Reason Millions of Americans Are Prohibited From Pumping Their Own Gas

August 28, 2023 | Jon Miltimore
History

Why FDR Banned the Sale of Sliced Bread During World War II

July 13, 2023 | Lawrence W. Reed
History

How the UK’s 2004 Ban on Fox Hunting Led to a ‘Catastrophic Decline’ in the Fox Population

May 11, 2023 | Lawrence W. Reed
Politics

Banning Skittles Might Seem Trivial. It’s Not

April 3, 2023 | Jon Miltimore
Politics

Hate Speech Laws: The Best Arguments for Them—and Against Them

January 14, 2023 | Julian Adorney
Politics

Sri Lanka’s Food Crisis Reveals the Dangers of Environmental Planning

August 13, 2022 | Zilvinas Silenas
Politics

Sri Lanka Crisis Reveals the Dangers of Green Utopianism

July 20, 2022 | Chelsea Follett
Politics

The Ban on Organ Sales Is Killing People. It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way

February 4, 2022 | Walter Block
Economics

Restaurants Are Winning the Fight With Cities Trying to Ban Gas-Powered Stoves

July 29, 2021 | Jon Miltimore
Economics

Here’s the Flimsy Basis for Congress’s Claim that Cryptos Pose a ‘Systemic Risk’ to the Economy

July 6, 2021 | Jon Miltimore
Economics

Banning Alcoholic Beverages on Flights Is (Still) a Really Bad Idea

June 14, 2021 | Jon Miltimore
Culture

How Stalin Canceled ‘Hamlet’ in the Soviet Union—and What It Can Teach Us about Cancel Culture

April 19, 2021 | Jon Miltimore
Economics

India Seeks to Criminalize Cryptocurrencies

March 26, 2021 | Nicholas Anthony
Culture

Trick-or-Treating Bans Are the Scariest Part of Halloween in 2020

October 29, 2020 | Kerry McDonald
Politics

The Argument Beneath the Surface of Gun Control

August 15, 2019 | Kenneth LaFave
Politics

The Futility of Those Bans on Plastic Bags and Straws

June 17, 2019 | Jarrett Stepman
Politics

New York’s Crackdown on Knives Sparks Legal Battle

February 19, 2019 | Ilya Shapiro
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