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Amicus Brief: Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish
Civitas Research Fellow Michael Toth's work was cited in a Supreme Court brief.

Exodus: Affordability Crisis Sends Americans Packing From Big Cities
The first in a two-part series about the Great Dispersion of Americans across the country.

Demystifying the New Deal
Carola Binder reviews False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947 by George Selgin

Decadent Ideology, Decaying Fraternity
Richard Reinsch reviews Prosperity and Torment in France by Chantal Delsol.

Why Is California Losing Good Jobs to Other States? It’s Not Rocket Science
The system that made California dynamic and prosperous for so long is now broken and backward-looking

Why Is California Losing Good Jobs to Other States? It’s Not Rocket Science
The system that made California dynamic and prosperous for so long is now broken and backward-looking

Do We Still Really Need the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
It is time for the monthly story of the labor market to be told more clearly, and more reliably, through data from other sources.

The Causal Effect of News on Inflation Expectations
This paper studies the response of household inflation expectations to television news coverage of inflation.
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The Rise of Inflation Targeting
This paper discusses the interactions between politics and economic ideas leading to the adoption of inflation targeting in the United States.
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Climate Lawyers Try a New Approach
Heatstroke killed Julie Leon on a 108-degree day. A lawsuit blames oil companies.

The Specter of Chaos in New York
Could a Mayor Mamdani keep the city safe during Luigi Mangione’s trial?

Under Zohran Mamdani, the Jewish Exodus from New York Is Likely to Accelerate
The city is already undergoing a demographic sea-change. The Democrat’s hipster socialism is a rejection of everything that made it great

Waning American Pride Threatens the Republic
Political polarisation has reached fever pitch, with each side increasingly viewing the other not as opponents but as enemies.
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Amicus Brief: Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish
Civitas Research Fellow Michael Toth's work was cited in a Supreme Court brief.

Why Trump’s ‘Emergency’ Tariffs Won’t Fly
The trade deficit isn’t a sudden surprise, short in duration, and great in harm: the usual characteristics of an emergency.

Democracy in Britain: The Lords’ Work
Part 2: How the “hereditary peers” enhance lawmaking and support the soft power of the UK.

Epstein & Yoo: Amicus Brief in Supreme Court of Maryland
Civitas Senior Research Fellows Richard Epstein and John Yoo, alongside the Mountain States Legal Foundation, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Maryland.

The American Revolutions of 1776
America's founding was animated by both the spirit of liberty and the spirit of religion — a philosophical and practical achievement worth understanding and attempting to recover today.

Stanford’s Graduate Student Union Tries to Stifle Dissent
The university may fire me because I won’t pay dues to a labor organization whose views I find repugnant.

The 529 Education Revolution Is Here
Tax-free accounts have become more powerful, but some states are resisting.

The Next Californias
Colorado, Washington, and Oregon have adopted many of the policies contributing to the Golden State’s decline.

The Moral Collapse on Campus Is a Result of the Hollowing Out of the Humanities
Mending a civic and intellectual catastrophe.