As Hurricane Florence spins toward the Carolina coast, the nation’s attention will be on the disaster readiness and response of governments and the affected communities.

A Maryland story in the Washington Post last week presents a classic case of local political corruption.

The Reason Foundation’s Bob Poole has published a new book, Rethinking America’s Highways: A 21st Century Vision for Better Infrastructure.

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.

In two maps today, the New York Times illustrates the growing dependence of Americans on federal government subsidies or welfare.

The federal government dispenses unequal treatment to Americans through subsidies, regulations, and narrow tax breaks.

Instead of federal favoritism for some areas over others, policymakers should concentrate on making the whole nation an opportunity zone.

In the wake of their successful Tax Cuts and Jobs Act last year, Republicans are now considering Tax Reform 2.0.

Without government intervention, renewable energy cannot compete with conventional resources.

The federal government spends an unreal amount of taxpayer money cleaning up nuclear weapons sites.