Dr. John Lott and CPRC Board Member Joe Olson have an new op-ed piece in the Minneapolis Star Tribune that discusses what is at For months, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Senate Democrats have talked about eliminating the filibuster. With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at the Wall Street Journal. When President Trump introduced Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, he warned: “The coming years will decide the survival of our Second Amendment.” He’s right. Joe Biden’s campaign website contains a...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall on the impact of Democrats promises to get rid of the filibuster. For months, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Senate Democrats have talked about eliminating the filibuster. And with Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, the discussion by...
Dr. John Lott and Dr. Timothy Craig Allen have a new piece on the Coronavirus discussion in the first presidential debate up at Newsweek. On Tuesday night, in his first debate with President Donald Trump, Joe Biden claimed "200,000 dead, 7 million infected [with the...
The first presidential debate between President Trump versus Joe Biden rehashed a lot of false claims about vote fraud. Here is Dr. John Lott's piece at Real Clear Politics about some of the false claims made by Joe Biden and Chris Wallace during the debate. Neither...
Responding to attacks on an op-ed that I recently wrote in the Missoulian. They called into question both my expertise as an economist to deal with price controls and claims regarding the National Research Council work regarding firearms and violence. An...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. The Second Amendment is hanging in the balance, and Trump’s Supreme Court nomination this Saturday will determine its fate. All of Trump’s likely nominees – 7th Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett, 11th Circuit Judge...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Townhall. Despite pundits’ reactions to the contrary, the new Supreme Court vacancy will improve Republican odds keeping the Senate and the presidency. The Democrats are showing voters, like never before, what is at stake in this...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Newsweek. While Senate Republicans promise to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court and Democrats threaten to pack the Court, leading Democrats claim precedent is on their side. "Mitch McConnell set...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Real Clear Politics and Microsoft News. After two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies were shot and critically wounded on Saturday, Joe Biden warned, “Weapons of war have no place in our communities." And within just hours of the attack,...
Dr. John Lott has an op-ed in the Billings Gazette on the Montana Senate campaign that may determine control of the US Senate. The piece also appeared in the Missoulian on September 17th, 2020. Steve Bullock’s Senate campaign is targeting greedy pharmaceutical...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Newsweek on why this election will determine the future of private gun ownership in the US. Lott debated John Rosenthal, who is the co-founder of Massachusetts-based Stop Handgun Violence, and his piece is available below at the end...