Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics about comments made last week by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams. It was also published in other places such as the Journal Courier (Jacksonville, Illinois). . In...
Dr. John Lott has a piece with Steve Smith from the America First Policy Institute about our research on counties and states inability to measure the gap between the number of voters with the number of ballots cast in elections. The research on which it is based is...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Newsweek on Biden's crime speech this week. More information on his false statements is available here: More of Biden’s false claims during his crime speech in Pennsylvania. . On Tuesday, President Joe Biden traveled to Wilkes...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at Real Clear Politics. The piece also appeared in the Daily Signal, Zerohedge, and The Center Square. . A lot of people are moving out of California. Over the last two years, California has lost about 300,000 people. Major companies,...
Dr. John Lott has a piece in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the false claims made by Democrat Senate candidate John Fetterman. . Last week, Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Democrat John Fetterman said that requiring a voter I.D. is “insidious and...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Townhall. . We put five children through college (one is still attending). We saved up. We never took out any loans, as we didn’t want our kids burdened with debt. Our kids went to William & Mary, Mary Washington, Dartmouth, Johns...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at The Federalist on New York defying the Supreme Court decision in Bruen. The Supreme Court has ruled against arbitrary and unfair permitting processes, but New York officials seem intent on dragging their heels. .New York’s new...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Investigations about the large systematic errors in the FBI's count of armed civilians who have stopped what otherwise would have been mass public shootings. . The shooting that killed three people and injured another at a...
Dr. John Lott has a new piece up at Newsweek on the mass public shooting attack in Indianapolis that was stopped by a concealed handgun permit holder. . In Indianapolis on Sunday, a law-abiding citizen carrying a concealed handgun stopped another mass public shooting....
Dr. John Lott has a new piece at Real Clear Politics. . The term “assault weapon” is nonsensical. Finally, the Associated Press’s highly influential Stylebook followed by the news media is recognizing that fact. As the AP now acknowledges, the term conveys...
Dr. John Lott has a new op-ed at The Federalist. . More than 1,400 U.S. flights were canceled and over 17,000 were delayed over the July 4th holiday weekend, according to the flight-tracking website FlightAware. And in recent years, airlines including American, Delta,...
Dr. John Lott's June 26th op-ed in the Wall Street Journal generated three different letters to the editor. In “More Legal Guns Reduced Crime in Brazil” (op-ed, June 27), John Lott Jr. suggests that loosening gun restrictions in Brazil has led to a precipitous drop in...