Op-eds

“College Football Players, Not Coaches, Deserve to Be Paid.” With Kurt Rotthoff. Op-ed, Newsday, January 2016.

“The Delegate-And-Forget-About-It Doctrine and Government’s Fourth Branch.” With Oliver Sherouse. Op-ed, The Hill, October 2015.

“The High Correlation Between Agency Budgets and Agency Regulations.” With Oliver Sherouse. September 2015.

“The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.” With Oliver Sherouse. Mercatus Chart Series. August 2015.

“The Accumulation of Regulatory Restrictions Across Presidential Administrations.” With Oliver Sherouse. Mercatus Chart Series. August 2015.

“Health-Health Analysis in Policy Decisions.” Op-ed, The Hill, July 2015.

“The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act May Be the Biggest Law Ever.” With Oliver Sherouse. Mercatus Chart Series. July 2015.

“The Case for Legislative Impact Accounting.” with Jason J. Fichtner.  Op-ed, e21. June 2015.

“Lessons About Government from the NFL.” Op-ed, The Hill, May 2015.

“The Code of Federal Regulations: The Ultimate Longread.” Mercatus Chart Series. April 2015.

“Regulatory Appendicitis and the Dangers of Vestigial Regulations.” With Stephen Jones. Op-ed, The Hill. March 2015.

“Cheap Avocados, the Super Bowl XLIX, and Regulatory Reforms.” With Candace McTeer. Op-ed, USA Hispanic. February 2015.

“An Avocado Success Story.” With Candace McTeer. Op-ed, Tampa Bay Times. February 2015.

“Why We Should Demand Regulatory Reform.” Op-ed, The Hill, January 2015.

“Regulatory Accumulation Hinders Productivity Growth.” Op-ed, The Hill, October 2014.

“Regulatory Measurement Can Lead to Actionable Knowledge.” Op-ed, The Hill, August 2014.

“Measuring the Content, Not Just the Number, of Executive Orders and Proclamations.” Mercatus Chart Series. October 2014.

“Regulatory Statistics for the Railroad Sector from RegData 2.0.” Mercatus on Policy Series. September 2014.

“Measuring the Dodd-Frank Act (and Other Major Acts) with RegData 2.0.” Mercatus Chart Series. September 2014.

“How the Top Ten Regulators of 2012 Changed over Ten Years.” Mercatus Chart Series. August 2014.

“A Solution to the Old Rules vs. New Tech Problem.” Op-ed, The Hill, July 2014.

“The Greatest Service of OMB’s Annual Report.” With Sherzod Abdukadirov. Op-ed, Real Clear Markets, June 2014.

“The Unintended Consequences of Federal Regulatory Accumulation.” With Robert Greene. Mercatus Economic Perspectives. May 2014.

“Why We Need Regulatory Reform in Two Charts.” Mercatus Chart Series. May 2014.

“Shift the Jobs Debate.” With Veronique de Rugy. Op-ed, US News & World Report, April 2014.

“Dodd-Frank’s Regulatory Surge: Quantifying its Regulatory Restrictions and Improving its Economic Analyses.” With Robert Greene. Mercatus on Policy Series. February 2014.

“Independent Arbiters Needed for Regulatory Accumulation Problem.” Op-ed, The Hill. February 2014.

“The FAA, Electronic Devices on Airplanes and Endless Regulations.” Op-ed, US News & World Report. December 2013.

“An Economy Buried by Regulations.” Op-ed, US News & World Report. August 2013.

“Did Deregulation Cause the Financial Crisis? Examining a Common Justification for Dodd-Frank.” With Robert Greene. Mercatus Chart Series. July 2013.

“Why Old Regulations Never Seem to Disappear.” Op-ed, US News & World Report, March 2013.

“The Coming Perfect Storm of Regulation.” Op-ed, US News & World Report, November 2012.

“The Science of Government Regulation.” Op-ed, US News & World Report, October 2012.