Political battles would not impact important activities if they were separated from the federal government.

Political battles would not impact important activities if they were separated from the federal government.

Fifty years ago today, NASA’s Apollo 8 mission sent three astronauts to orbit the moon and return safely to earth.

Nationwide transit ridership has declined steadily since 2014, with some of the largest urban areas, including Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles, losing more than 20 percent of their transit riders in the last few years.

The existence of government infrastructure deters or “crowds out” private investment.

In 1985, Reason Foundation co-founder and then-president Robert Poole heard about a variable road pricing experiment in Hong Kong. In 1986, he learned that France and other European countries were offering private concessions to build toll roads. In 1987, he interviewed officials of Amtech, which had just invented electronic transponders that could be used for road tolling.

The Trump administration is proposing to privatize two airports owned by the federal government in Virginia, Dulles and Reagan National.

Our air traffic control system is run by the federal government and subject to all the usual bureaucratic failures such as cost overruns, lack of innovation, a stagnant workforce, unstable finances, and ineffective leadership.

Puerto Rico’s Governor, Ricardo Rossello, has unveiled a plan to privatize the island’s power company.

When I am discussing the advantages of privatizing airports, air traffic control, and passenger rail, reporters often ask, “Will it be safe?”