Author: Amy Ridenour

The U.S. Must Tread Carefully to Avoid Creating More Fundamentalist Islamic Governments

National Policy Analysis #344 /
The United States has, since 1979, had two unpleasant experiences with radical Islamic fundamentalist rule: Iran and Afghanistan. In each case, we expected the rule of reason and the norms of modern global exchange would apply to these nations after ...
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Bush’s Rx Drug Proposal Will Help Seniors without Expanding the Federal Bureaucracy

National Policy Analysis #346 /
The contrast between President Bush's Medicare reform proposal and the national health scheme unveiled by Bill and Hillary Clinton seven years ago is as stark as the difference between a free-market democracy and a paternalistic socialist state. A free-market democracy ...
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Fathers Count, Yet Many Count Them Out

National Policy Analysis #339 /
The new Japanese Prime Minister, Junichiro Koizumi, has a family arrangement that shocks Americans. Nineteen years ago, he and his wife, Kayoko Miyamoto, divorced. He took custody of their two older sons; his ex-wife, their youngest. None of the children ...
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Bush is Right on the Environment – But He Needs Help to Prove It

National Policy Analysis #332 /
Although you wouldn't know it from his critics, President Bush has so far taken the correct actions on environmental issues - including his controversial decisions to end U.S. consideration of the Kyoto global warming treaty and against regulating carbon dioxide ...
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California’s Electric Rate Increase Proposal Would Shield Voters, But Devastate Business

National Policy Analysis #335 /
They're flaky. They take yoga and "fusion cuisine" seriously. They coined the phrases, "Let's do lunch" and "slow speed chase." They are also a whopping one-sixth of our national population and generate almost 14% of our gross domestic product. And ...
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Government Policies Toward Business Help Push Economy Toward Recession

National Policy Analysis #325 /
My, how things change. Once upon a time, the government guarded the public against business monopolies. Nowadays, the problem is the government. Its policies toward business are harming competitiveness and helping to push the economy toward recession. The economy, retirees ...
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After False Starts, Ford Motor Company Improves its Defense of SUVs

National Policy Analysis #326 /
Little noted amid Christmas and Inaugural festivities was this small bulletin out of the Ford Motor Company's headquarters in Dearborn: The giant automaker announced that it was recalling about 110,000 Explorer and Mountaineer sport utility vehicles (SUVs), not because of ...
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Congressional Intervention in the Internet Domain Name Process Threatens Independence of the Internet

National Policy Analysis #327 /
Congress is being pressured by a handful of companies to intervene in the process that determines new Internet domain names. Such a move would threaten the integrity of the Internet by opening it up to government intervention and regulation. The ...
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Advice to the President-Elect: Improve the Status of the White House Science Advisor

National Policy Analysis #321 /
George W. Bush - like Ronald Reagan before him - recognizes the importance of expert advice. The stage, then, is set for a badly-needed White House staff reform: Elevation of the White House science advisor to a more prominent, independent ...
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The Supreme Court is Wrong to Ban Camera Coverage

National Policy Analysis #317 /
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision that it won't allow television coverage when it hears arguments on the presidential election is a mistake. The Court is so opposed to camera coverage that one Justice, David Souter, told a House of Representatives ...
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