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Debatable Ideas: Examining Key Transportation Issues, Myths and Misconceptions

Debatable Ideas: Examining Key Transportation Issues, Myths and Misconceptions

By Robert Poole, Baruch Feigenbaum, Marc Scribner and Marc Joffe

Reason's Debatable Ideas series is examining key transportation issues, including many common myths and misconceptions found in today's infrastructure policy debates.

Surface Transportation News: Truck Tolling, Transportation Planning During and After the Pandemic, and More

Surface Transportation News: Truck Tolling, Transportation Planning During and After the Pandemic, and More

By Robert Poole

Maryland Should Reject Unfair and Ineffective Flavored Tobacco Ban

Maryland Should Reject Unfair and Ineffective Flavored Tobacco Ban

A Better Way to Fund Students and Schools in Mississippi

A Better Way to Fund Students and Schools in Mississippi

By Christian Barnard

Examining Legislation to Expand Open Enrollment in Arizona

Examining Legislation to Expand Open Enrollment in Arizona

By Aaron Garth Smith and Christian Barnard

New Budget Reconciliation Resolution Portends Dangerous Debt Trends

Commentary by Marc Joffe

Lawmakers in 10 States Have Introduced Proposals to Legalize Marijuana This Year

Commentary by Geoffrey Lawrence

How Do High-Occupancy Toll Lanes Benefit All Income Groups?

Commentary by Baruch Feigenbaum

Can Increasing Highway Capacity Be Effective?

Commentary by Robert Poole

How to Make Public-Private Partnerships Part of a Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Commentary by Robert Poole

A Tale of Two Space Launch Vehicles

Commentary by Robert Poole

Initial 2020 Revenue Figures In Many States Are Higher Than Expected

Commentary by Marc Joffe

Infographic: Texas Charter Funding Gap

Data Visualization by Aaron Garth Smith

Tax Hikes Are Not Going to Fix to Cities’ Growing Pension Costs

Commentary by Alix Ollivier

Pension Integrity Project

Tax Hikes Are Not Going to Fix to Cities’ Growing Pension Costs

Commentary by Alix Ollivier

Pension Reform Newsletter: Examining Private Equity in Public Pension Investments, the Growth of Pension Debt in 2020, and More

Pension Reform Newsletter by Alix Ollivier

Public Pension Plans’ Funded Ratios Have Been Declining for Years

Data Visualization by Jordan Campbell

Education

A Better Way to Fund Students and Schools in Mississippi

Commentary by Christian Barnard

Examining Legislation to Expand Open Enrollment in Arizona

Commentary by Aaron Garth Smith and Christian Barnard

Infographic: Texas Charter Funding Gap

Data Visualization by Aaron Garth Smith

Transportation

Surface Transportation News: Truck Tolling, Transportation Planning During and After the Pandemic, and More

Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletter by Robert Poole

How Do High-Occupancy Toll Lanes Benefit All Income Groups?

Commentary by Baruch Feigenbaum

Can Increasing Highway Capacity Be Effective?

Commentary by Robert Poole

Privatization

Biden’s Misguided Federal Prison Executive Order

Commentary by Austill Stuart

Privatization and Government Reform Newsletter: Contracting Mass Transit Services, a Government-Owned 5G Network , and More

Privatization and Government Reform Newsletter by Austill Stuart

Biden Can Utilize Space Companies and Public-Private Partnerships

Commentary by Rebecca van Burken

Individual Freedom

Maryland Should Reject Unfair and Ineffective Flavored Tobacco Ban

Commentary by Guy Bentley

The Failures of Flavored Tobacco Bans

Commentary by Guy Bentley

Social Media Companies Have the Right to Ban Users

Commentary by Rebecca van Burken and Adrian Moore

Data Visualization

Infographic: Texas Charter Funding Gap

Data Visualization by Aaron Garth Smith

Examining Student Funding in Texas Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools

Data Visualization by Jordan Campbell, Aaron Garth Smith and Corey A. DeAngelis

Public Pension Plans’ Funded Ratios Have Been Declining for Years

Data Visualization by Jordan Campbell

Policy Studies

Fiscal Explainer: Texas Charter School Funding Analysis

Policy Brief by Aaron Garth Smith, Jordan Campbell and Corey A. DeAngelis

Would a Green Fiscal Stimulus Help the Environment and the Economy?

Policy Brief by Julian Morris and Vittorio Nastasi

Examining Private Equity in Public Pension Investments

Policy Study by Marc Joffe

Reason Foundation Newsletters

Surface Transportation News: Truck Tolling, Transportation Planning During and After the Pandemic, and More

Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletter by Robert Poole

Pension Reform Newsletter: Examining Private Equity in Public Pension Investments, the Growth of Pension Debt in 2020, and More

Pension Reform Newsletter by Alix Ollivier

Aviation Policy News: America’s Many Spaceports, FAA Progress on Drones, and More

Aviation Policy Newsletter by Robert Poole

Drug Policy Newsletter: Federal Marijuana Reform, Expunging Cannabis Convictions, and More

Drug Policy Newsletter by Spence Purnell

Surface Transportation News: Claims of Highway Boondoggles, Federal Transit Policy, and More

Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletter by Robert Poole

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Annual Publications

Surface Transportation News: Claims of Highway Boondoggles, Federal Transit Policy, and More

Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletter by Robert Poole

Surface Transportation News: Annual Highway Report Rankings, Concerns About Electric Vehicles, and More

Surface Transportation Innovations Newsletter by Robert Poole

Ranking State Highway Systems on Performance and Cost-Effectiveness: North Dakota and Missouri Rank Best, New Jersey and Alaska Rank Last

Policy Study by Baruch Feigenbaum, Spence Purnell and Joe Hillman

Events

Debate: The Soho Forum Live — Our First Live Event of 2021! With John Mackey & Yaron Brook