The Manhattan Institute has a weekly column in the Washington Examiner under the section "Manhattan Moment." Each Wednesday, this column features MI scholars and CJ contributors writing on a variety of issues ranging from budget and taxes, to tort reform and energy policy.

• A Critical Moment For Immigration Reform, 01-29-13
• America's Major Problem is Unlimited Spending, 01-25-13
• President Obama's Bait and Switch, 01-25-13
• Why the Unions are Shrinking , 01-22-13
• Committing Bribery Without Knowing It, 01-18-13
• Obama Must Come Back To the Table, 01-15-13
• Sandy and the Entitled, 01-11-13
• A Good Dinner, a Friendly Chat, an Effective Policy , 01-08-13
• A New Year's Resolution: Tax Reform, 01-01-13
• Maybe You Never Met Bork, But He Made Your Life Better, 12-25-12
• Two Quick and (Relatively) Easy Improvements for Medicare, 12-12-12
• Pushing Antibiotics off of Their Own 'Fiscal Cliff, 12-07-12
• Pushing antibiotics off of their own 'fiscal cliff , 12-06-12
• 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Needs Spending Cuts, 12-04-12
• Minnesota Attorney General's Assault on American Health, 11-22-12
• Washington Must Not Kill America's Energy Revolution, 11-14-12
• What Election 2012 Means for America: Three Manhattan Institute Scholars Weigh In On the Next Four Years, 11-09-12
• Fixing the Unemployment Problem, 11-07-12
• Bogus AAUW Study Perpetuates Wage Gap Myths, 10-31-12
• The New American Exceptionalism, 10-19-12
• White House to Contractors: Break the Law, We'll Pay the Costs, 10-17-12
• Obama and Biden Will Turn Medicare into Medicaid, 10-15-12
• California Gas Prices Are a Warning, 10-10-12
• Two Visions For energy: Smugness or Prosperity?, 10-03-12
• Food Stamps Expand By Leaps, 09-19-12
• In Chicago, the Education Status Quo Makes Its Stand, 09-14-12
• What the Democrats Won't Say About Education, 09-05-12
• Stop Demonizing and Start Discussing the Ryan Plan, 08-29-12
• Flat-Out Lies on Romney's Tax Plan, 08-07-12
• Only Politicians Can Save Us Now, 08-02-12
• Central Bankers Cannot Save Us, 07-31-12
• No More Quick Fixes, 07-27-12
• Unions Target Corporations Through Shareholder Activism, 07-19-12
• Higher Taxes Won't Cure What Ails Us, 07-18-12
• Presenting Alternatives to Obamacare, 07-11-12
• With Obamacare, It's the Economic Costs That Matter, 06-27-12
• Don't Believe the Hype About Corporate Political Spending, 06-22-12
• Green Power Corrupts, Again, 06-13-12
• The Implications of Wisconsin, 06-07-12
• Green Power Corrupts, 06-05-12
• Improving the FDA, 05-24-12
• Fuzzy Math Undermines Budget Credibility, 05-22-12
• Back to 2008, 05-18-12
• Paycheck Act is Trial Lawyers' Payday, 05-02-12
• Public Sector Unions Bring Back Tammany Hall, 04-26-12
• Hunger Hypocrisy in New York, 03-14-12
• Fiscal Mess Coming Soon To A City Near You, 03-08-12
• Market Better Than FDA To Address Drug Shortages, 03-01-12
• New York Has a Public Pension Crisis Fix, 02-22-12
• Rewarding Great Teachers Just Makes Good Sense, 01-31-12
• Has Obama Seen the Light On Oil?, 01-27-12
• SOPA Shows Why We Need Limited Government, 01-25-12
• Obama Blows It On Keystone Decision, 01-20-12
• The Rest of The Story Behind Obama's Recess Appointments, 01-19-12
• Expressly Illegal 'Appointment' Violates Obama's Oath, 01-11-12
• Democrat Raimondo's Rhode Island Reforms Are Remarkable, 01-05-12
• Opening Trade Could Ease West Bank Tensions, 12-30-11
• Washington Sickness Seen In Payroll Tax Fiasco, 12-22-11
• The Newtron Entitlement Bomb, 12-12-11
• Whites Hit Hardest By Public Employee Layoffs, 12-07-11
• Gates Invests Time, Cash Into Drug Research, 11-25-11
• Supercommittee Didn't Have to Fail, 11-25-11
• Why 2011 is the Year of the School Voucher, 11-17-11
• Hands Off my Union Dues!, 11-09-11
• More Green Energy Jobs Exposed As Myths, 11-03-11
• Renewing User-Fee Program Will Boost Innovation, FDA Performance, 11-03-11
• Another Unpleasant Surprise from Obamacare, 10-27-11
• Obama's CFPB Nominee Abused Private Attorney Contracting in Ohio, 10-25-11
• State-Sponsored Lawsuits Are Trial Bar's New Cash Cow, 10-25-11
• No, More Computers Will Not Fix Our Broken Schools, 10-19-11
• Hayek's Wisdom, Rediscovered, 09-29-11
• Political Activism Meets Corporate Governance, 09-21-11
• Teacher Competence Counts More Than Credentials, 09-15-11
• We Owe Thanks To Our Police and Firefighters, 09-07-11
• William Bratton Would Be Good For The Met, 08-24-11
• Win or Lose, Trial Lawyers Get Millions in Vioxx Fees, 08-18-11
• Pork Barrel Ethanol Subsidies Have Doubled Corn Prices, 08-10-11
• Let's Bring Back Stigma Because Anything Doesn't Go, 08-04-11
• Then There Were Those Who Didn't Riot In London, 07-31-11
• Public-Sector Pensions Are Anything But Modest, 07-28-11
• Cutting The 'Food Desert' Myth Down To Size, 07-20-11
• Why Republicans Should Delay Spending Battle To 2013, 07-14-11
• What's Good For the Dodgers Isn't Good For America, 07-06-11
• Supreme Court Drug Decisions Are Blows For Common Sense, 06-30-11
• Measurement Is Key To Seamless City Success, 06-22-11
• How The Seamless City Fights Crime, 06-21-11
• How A Conservative Mayor Revitalized A Central City, 06-20-11
• Presidential Candidates Should Get Real On Mortgages, 06-15-11
• Cancer Revolution Is Possible With More Flexible FDA, 06-09-11
• Federal Anti-SLAPP Law Needed To Protect Free Speech, 06-02-11
• Why Bureaucrat Unions Are So Hard To Beat, 05-31-11
• Pension Debate Postmortem, 05-26-11
• Rex and Jeff illustrate Washington's Gas-Price Hypocrisy, 05-18-11
• Three Possible Responses To The States' Fiscal Problems, 05-12-11
• To Cut Costs, Healthcare Needs Far More Info, 05-05-11
• Hard To See Who Are The Real Brats In This Toy War, 04-28-11
• New Mayor Rahm Emanuel Is Tackling Chicago's Budget, 04-14-11
• Unions Flexing Their Corporate-Governance Muscle, 03-30-11
• What America Really Needs Is A White House Council On Men And Boys, 03-22-11
• Japan's Tragedy Will Impact The Global Economy, 03-15-11
• Nonprofits Help Keep Civil Society Running, 03-09-11
• Fighting Obesity Can Be A Conservative Cause, 03-02-11
• Obama Plays Both Sides of Collective Bargaining Issue, 02-22-11
• We've Had Enough of Black History Month, 02-15-11
• Poverty-Ridden Camden, N.J., Faces Police Cuts Amid Increasing Crime, 02-08-11
• Three Areas Where Obama Can Help America Innovate, 01-26-11
• Obama Needs To Step On The Natural Gas Pedal, 01-11-11
• How Obama and Congress Can Revive U.S. Innovation, 01-06-11
• Dangerous debt games, 01-05-11
• Banned Brownies Isn't The Only Problem In School Lunches, 12-29-10
• NEA Initiative Debauches The Educational Value of Verse, 12-22-10
• Courts Shouldn't Ignore Due Process To Create Class Actions, 12-14-10
• Obama's Rhetoric Versus Energy Realities, 12-08-10
• How New York City's Resurrection Was Presaged by City Journal, 11-17-10
• How Republicans Can Break Obamacare Before They Repeal It, 11-09-10
• New Findings Show Just How Bad Things Are For The Kids, 11-03-10
• Are We Headed Back To The Bad Old Days Of Vaccination Lawsuits?, 10-19-10
• Ethanol Is Just Another Agricultural Subsidy, 10-12-10
• Politicians Win, Taxpayers Lose As Government Funds Failed Projects, 10-08-10
• What Should Immigrants Do When They Get Here?, 10-07-10
• A Cautionary Tale About California's Budget-Busting Public-Sector Unions, 10-06-10
• Public-Sector Unions Run Amok Using New Jersey's State Budget, 10-06-10
• President Obama's Payout To Community Organizers, 10-05-10
• Obama's Ascent Heralded By Government-Funded Activists, 10-04-10
• Congress Shouldn't Force Citizens to Fly Blind, 09-28-10
• A Federalist Answer To Our Need for a Better Electrical Grid, 09-21-10
• Obama Puts Public Sector Employees Ahead of Private Sector, 09-14-10
• School Vouchers Make a Great Recession-era Program, 09-08-10
• Litigating Over The Environment Makes Big Bucks For Trial Lawyers, 08-31-10
• Drilling Moratorium Hurts U.S., Helps Brazil, 08-25-10
• Just What Are "Choice Mothers" Settling For?, 08-18-10
• Obamacare Doesn't Work in the Real World, 08-11-10
• Making Second Chance Act Work For More Former Prisoners, 07-28-10
• Crisis Undermines Government Fundamentalism, 07-14-10
• The Recovery Prevention Act of 2010, 07-07-10
• What Does It Mean For The Supreme Court To Be "Properly Deferential"?, 06-30-10
• Congress Poised To Worsen State Budget Gaps, 06-23-10
• FDA Is Slowing Down Necessary Drugs and Treatments, 06-17-10
• Criminal Probe May Cripple Response To Gulf Crisis, 06-09-10
• Race to the Top Pushing Incentives For Reform, 06-02-10
• The Blowout And Our Addiction To Prosperity, 05-26-10
• The Other Obamacare, 05-19-10
• Kagan's Likely To Swerve Left, 05-12-10
• Arizona Law is Hated Because It Could Be Effective, 05-05-10
• Teacher Pensions Are a Ticking Time Bomb, 04-28-10
• Universities Shouldn't Favor Politically Popular Groups, 04-21-10
• Replacing Stevens, 04-14-10
• Public Schools Should Experiment Like Charter Schools, 04-07-10
• Could a New Federal Agency Catch The Next Madoff?, 03-31-10
• Obamacare, the Day After, 03-24-10
• Stop the Clash Between U.S. and Israel, 03-17-10
• Capitalism is the Ultimate Women’s Liberation, 03-10-10
• A Conservative Agenda For Cities, 02-24-10
• Obama Wants More Cash Wasted on Federal Aid For College Students, 02-18-10
• Trial lawyers: Democrats' Other Money Machine, 02-10-10
• Obama's Education Rhetoric Doesn't Come Close To Reality, 02-03-10
• On Tort Reform, Actions Speak Louder Than Words, 02-01-10
• What Obama Should Say In His State of the Union, 01-27-10
• We Need Limits on Borrowing, Not Repudiation of Bankers, 01-20-10
• Obama Promises To Fix Regulations But Is Set To Regulate Even More, 01-18-10
• Massachusetts poses problem for Obamacare, 01-13-10
• Cut the Strings on the Stimulus, 01-06-10
• Population Control: An Ugly Solution To Climate Change, 12-30-09
• Obamacare's gift to all: More regulation, more debt, more taxes, 12-23-09
• Race to the Top Program Prioritizes Reform, 12-16-09
• Vague Law Is Bad Law, 12-09-09
• Borrowing Limits, Not Bailouts, Prevent Market Failure, 12-02-09
• Medicine isn't Perfect, Obamacare is Even Less Perfect, 11-25-09
• Jury Rejects Prosecutor's Rigged Game, 11-19-09
• Give Up Abortion for Nationalized Health Care?, 11-18-09
• Congress Just Raised Your Health Insurance Premiums, 11-11-09
• Global Finance Remains Mired in a Primitive State, 11-04-09
• Data Proves Charter Schools Work, 10-28-09
• Trying Terrorists in U.S. is a Bad Idea, 10-21-09
• Here's What is Stopping Tort Reform, 10-14-09
• Dear Senator: Why You Should Vote Against Cap-and-Trade, 09-30-09
• New York Shows How Not To Do Health Care Reform, 09-23-09
• Replacing Oil with Substitutes Won't Put U.S. at Disadvantage, 09-16-09
• Slay The Bureaucracy Monster, Mr. President, 09-09-09
• Obamacare and Kennedy's Legacy, 09-02-09
• Obama's Yucca Budget Bungle, 08-26-09
• Special Ed Vouchers Work For Everybody, 08-18-09
• Obama's Ignorant Attack on Cops, 07-29-09
• Regulation, Not Size, Is Health Care's Biggest Problem, 07-22-09
• Why Politicized Judges Spark Rancorous Confirmations, 07-15-09
• New York's future could preview America's, for better or worse, 07-08-09
• Don't Throw Deregulation Overboard, 07-01-09
• Left Trots Out 'Climate of Hate' Canard, Again, 06-24-09
• Punishing oil and gas producers makes no sense, 06-16-09
• Pharma-Scolds Tee Off On Drug Industry, 06-10-09
• Judge Sotomayor's not-so-liberal moments, 06-02-09
• On Souter’s Replacement, Litigation, And Empathy, 05-19-09
• Obama's health-care reform hardball could be a double-edged sword, 05-13-09
• A UN War-Crimes Tribunal Targets Free Speech, 05-06-09
• Reentry programs for ex-prisoners show promise., 04-28-09
• Exploding Myths on Energy, Environment, 04-21-09
• ChooseTax Cuts to Encourage Economic Growth, 04-15-09
• Manhattan Moment: Card Check is Still Alive and Deadly for Workers, 04-08-09
• Manhattan Moment: Why won't Obama utter the words "nuclear power"?, 03-25-09
• Small Businesses Need "Loser Pays" in Court, 03-17-09
• Manhattan Moment: Failure Should Be An Option For Financial Regulation, 03-03-09
• Spending Web Sites Make Politicos Take Transparency Seriously, 02-24-09
• Manhattan Moment: Data Shows Health Savings Accounts Cut Premiums, 02-17-09
• Help the environment, stay in the city, 02-11-09

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