Hurricane Harvey Looks to Be First Big Test for Trump FEMA Director Long August 25, 2017 By Christopher Flavelle Brock Long knew it was just a matter of time. “We’ve gone 11 years without a major hurricane land-falling in...
Trump Infrastructure Plan to Nix Obama’s Flood Risk Standards August 15, 2017 By Valerie Volcovici President Donald Trump will revoke an Obama-era executive order on Tuesday that required strict building standards for government-funded projects to...
Why Conservatives’ Climate Policy Won’t Work: Flavelle July 8, 2014 There’s a lot to like about Eli Lehrer’s argument for National Review that conservatives should stop downplaying global warming and...
Federal Government Better at Exchanges Than Some States: Lehrer November 21, 2012 The federal government is likely to do a better job of running health exchanges than some states, according to an...
R Street Institute Launches ‘Right Street Blog’ on InsuranceJournal.com June 1, 2012 The R Street Institute, a new insurance free market think tank, has launched an insurance issue-oriented blog on InsuranceJournal.com. The...
Free Markets Don’t Have to Mean No Regulation June 1, 2012 By Eli Lehrer A pragmatic, free-market take on insurance related issues from R Street Institute’s Eli Lehrer. A one-time boss of mine—a bearded...
Insurance Think Tank Splits from Heartland, Reorganizes as R Street Institute May 30, 2012 By Andrew G. Simpson The insurance team at the conservative Washington, D.C. think tank Heartland Institute has split from that organization and has formed...