Category: Policy & Legislation
Drugged Driving is Hard to Detect, Hard to Stop and Ensnares Innocent People
Driving under the influence has not gone away but there is a new problem: drugged driving. Drugged driving has been around for decades, but it is becoming an issue now that many states have approved recreational and medicinal marijuana.
Friday Links – 22 May 2026
- Fracking has saved US consumers $3 to $4 trillion.
- Trump out-of-pocket limit for bronze plans in 2027: $15,600 for an individual and $27,600 for a family in 2027. (What are they thinking???)
- Are we underestimating health care productivity gains?
- Evidence that immigrant labor adds to the workforce and output and does not substitute for domestic labor or domestic labor output.
- Using ice may make pain last longer.
- Even when crime falls in America, it still generally leaves us about 5x as violent as Europe.
- Unbelievable: California Medicaid coves exorcisms.
Wednesday Links – 20 May 2026
- Trump adds 600 new drugs to TrumpRx.
- Even as 19 states have enacted total or near-total abortion bans, the number of abortions provided in the U.S. each year has risen.
- Regardless of a Supreme Court ruling, “Nothing is going to stop people from accessing abortion pills by mail. The genie is out of the bottle.”
- As college men have become increasingly scarce, college women have maintained stable marriage rates by marrying high-earning non-college men…. [This has] undermined the marriage prospects of non-college women.