Source: Niskanen Center
by Caitlin Rowley Gallamore & Lawson Mansell

“The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking the next step to reduce Medicare’s unnecessary spending in high-cost hospital settings. Medicare’s payment policies have profound impacts on the supply of healthcare — where, when, and how services are provided to patients across the country. Existing payment policies disconnect the value of healthcare services from their costs. And because much of the healthcare system uses Medicare prices as a baseline for payment, the ripple effects of these distortions spread far beyond into the private market as well.” (09/01/26)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/cms-takes-another-step-toward-higher-value-lower-cost-outpatient-care/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Ninos P Malek

“On August 17, the California Energy Commission (CEC) approved the nation’s first energy-efficiency standards for replacement tires. Beginning in 2029, replacement tires sold for passenger vehicles and light-duty trucks in California will have to meet minimum standards for ‘rolling resistance’—the force that resists a tire as it rolls along the road. … The CEC estimates that under the first phase of the regulation, a set of four tires will cost consumers about $6 more while saving the average driver approximately $85 in fuel costs over the life of the tires. … Assuming those estimates are accurate, most people would probably say, ‘Sounds like a pretty good deal.’ But that raises an obvious economic question: If these tires are such a good deal for consumers, why does the government need to force people to buy them?” (09/01/26)

https://fee.org/articles/treading-on-the-market/

Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley

“The Administration won a major victory before the Supreme Court this week, securing a 5-4 decision allowing the resumption of construction of the new White House ballroom. Notably, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a dissent with his three liberal colleagues to oppose the move. The case turns on the standing of challengers to bring the case. However, as a torts professor, what intrigued me was what the case says about aesthetic injuries. In torts, I teach aesthetic nuisance cases where courts tend to reject claims of injury due to eyesores and blight. Such claims are disfavored in both codes and cases: ‘Things merely disagreeable, however, which simply displease the eye or offend the taste, or shock an oversensitive or fastidious nature, no matter how irritating or unpleasant, are not nuisances’. [81 N.Y. Jur. 2d Nuisances § 17 (2014)].” (09/01/26)

https://jonathanturley.org/2026/09/01/eye-of-the-beholder-aesthetic-injury-and-the-white-house-ballroom/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Michael Tomlinson

“In 2020, governments around the world panicked in response to the declaration of a pandemic and imposed drastic interventions to impede the spread of Covid-19, interventions which crushed human rights on an unprecedented scale and without sufficient justification. Yet this was widely accepted, even by human rights organisations. How could this happen? And how could we amend human rights protections to ensure that it does not happen again?” (09/01/260

https://brownstone.org/articles/human-rights-in-the-post-pandemic-era/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Michael C Munger

“American infrastructure is paralyzed by local communities looking out for their short-term interests.” (09/01/26)

https://lawliberty.org/forum/the-nimby-prisoners-dilemma/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Laura Williams

“The new book ‘Unconventional Education and America’s Founding’ traces the pluralistic, self-led educations that prepared colonial learners to remake the world.” (09/01/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/independent-thinking-cant-be-force-fed/