Mere proposals can change the risk calculus for business and investors. Politicians, and the public, should be wary.

Lately, I’ve been interested in innocent evil, the evil that results from perfectly innocent choices people make. Moral philosophers generally fall into one of two camps, intentionalist, and ...

A dentist kills a beloved lion and ruins his life. The invasion of Iraq results in region-wide instability and war. Burning fossil fuels creates air pollution. Introducing kudzu in the U.S. South (and ...

Today’s guest column is by professors John Cairney and Rick Burton. Question for you: Would you agree that in pro and collegiate sports management, strategy rarely survives first contact with harsh ...

The current proposal in the General Assembly to shift the tax burden for support of education from property taxes to a sales tax arises from deeply held feelings that the tax burden falls unfairly ...

A proposed federal “hemp ban” in the 2026 Agriculture Appropriations bill would prohibit not only intoxicating hemp products like delta-8 THC, but also nonintoxicating cannabinoids such as CBD, ...

On May 12, 2025, Pennsylvania Senate Bill 102 was referred to the Pennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee. The draft legislation had originally been referred to the Pennsylvania Senate ...

Where should we begin today amid this absolutely bananas news cycle? We could start with this alleged assassin in Minnesota who the cops finally got last night, nearly two days after he is suspected ...

Most of us are familiar with the law of unintended consequences. You set out to do something and end up causing things to happen that you did not anticipate. Like suppressing wildfire, which leads to ...

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The law of unintended consequences is both one of my favorite expressions and also probably overused, or at least misused. Because in the end, pretty much everything we do has consequence beyond the ...