Our path forward: After a year of chaos, here’s how to kick-start America’s revival

The chaos of 2020 has left Americans deeply concerned about the state of our nation. Instead of positive, forward-looking actions to restore confidence in the nation’s governing institutions, however, our elected officials are obsessed with sowing division and exploiting discord.

There’s a better way.

Steven D. Anderson outlines a future-oriented agenda based on the essential condition of human flourishing: the productive energies of American entrepreneurs and workers.

Victory in Kentucky means huge leap toward preserving the separation of powers during crises

This week, the Kentucky House of Representatives and Senate voted to override Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of Senate Bill 1. The bill restores constitutional government by placing safeguards on executive emergency powers, and ensuring that our separation of powers remains strong, no matter what the country is going through.

Daniel Dew, PLF’s legal policy director, explains, “The government may need the ability to move swiftly in times of emergency, but extraordinary government powers cannot last forever.”

Why competitor’s veto laws need to be ended for good

Raleigh Bruner, Ursula Newell-Davis, and Phillip Truesdell live in Kentucky, New Orleans, and Ohio, respectively, but they have one thing in common. All were denied the opportunity to start businesses to provide needed services in their communities because they did not have certificates of…need.

Angela Erickson details how certificate of need (CON) laws work, and previews PLF’s latest report, Competitor’s Veto: A Roadblock to New Businesses—a deep dive into how CON laws threaten entrepreneurs, consumers, and the public good, and how we’re fighting back.

How did unelected bureaucrats hijack the role of legislators?

Our constitutional system of “checks and balances” ensures that each of our three branches of government is independent and confined to its enumerated powers, so that no branch can tread on the others’ territory or become more powerful than the others.

At least, that is how the system is supposed to operate.

Brittany Hunter explains how, in practice, it does not always work that way.

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