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Why Do Progressives Support Democrats? Part One
John C. Goodman  ·  November 16, 2022
What Difference Did the Election Make?
John C. Goodman  ·  November 16, 2022
Enjoyment of the Upcoming World Cup Will Come at a Price
Lawrence J. McQuillan  ·  November 16, 2022
Diabetic Complications and Economic Fundamentals
Raymond J. March, Byron B. Carson III  ·  November 14, 2022
Where Is the Free Market Utopia?
Art Carden  ·  November 14, 2022
On Gas Prices, Simple Economics Trumps Biden’s Partisan Agenda
Taxing the corporate-greed “bogeyman” won’t decrease prices at the pump.
Alexander William Salter, Benjamin Powell  ·  November 10, 2022
Vote Like a Woman
When You Vote, Remember Who Has Recently Most Hurt Women
Naomi R. Wolf  ·  November 7, 2022
Permissible and Impermissible Incendiary Speech?
For many on the Left, what most see as incendiary and violent rhetoric is simply contextualized as the necessary talk of social justice.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  November 7, 2022
Michael Bloomberg Has Become the Advocate that Higher Education Needs the Most
Richard K. Vedder  ·  November 3, 2022
Like Soviets and Russians Before, China Is a Hollow Threat
Ivan Eland  ·  November 2, 2022
‘Treason’ Goes Way Beyond Cato And Mercatus: Lots of Economists Oppose the Jones Act
Art Carden  ·  November 1, 2022
CA Propositions 26 and 27 Are More about Protectionism than Gambling
Adam B. Summers  ·  October 31, 2022
Brazilians Try to Decide Which Is the Lesser Evil
Faced with a choice between Lula, a corrupt socialist, and Bolsonaro, an ends-justify-means right-wing populist, many voters lean toward the latter.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  October 29, 2022
No on Prop. 31: Big Police Can Be Worse than Big Tobacco
Jonathan Hofer  ·  October 28, 2022
Why Proposition 13 and Attacking It Are Both Popular
Gary M. Galles  ·  October 27, 2022
Colleges: Go Back to Basics
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 27, 2022
The Fed’s Mission Creep Has Turned Its Monetary Policy into a Failed Mission
James L. Butkiewicz, Burton A. Abrams  ·  October 26, 2022
What I Bet You Don’t Know about Poverty, Inequality and the Role of Government
John C. Goodman  ·  October 25, 2022
The Bicycle Lobby Goes Back to the Federal Trough
James T. Bennett  ·  October 24, 2022
California’s Proposition 29 Is about Union Extortion, Not Dialysis Care
Adam B. Summers  ·  October 24, 2022
D.E.I. Statements: Empty Platitude, or Litmus Test?
University-issued “diversity statements” are either too banal to justify or unconscionable attacks on free speech.
Tim Shampling  ·  October 20, 2022
A Guide to Avoiding the IMF–China Debt Trap
Lower-income countries can choose monetary reform, or they can continue being treated as leverage in a messy game of international politics.
Steve H. Hanke, Matt Sekerke  ·  October 19, 2022
How Evil Are Politicians? This Book Says ‘Very’
Art Carden  ·  October 19, 2022
Collegiate Complicity in the Erosion of American Identity
Richard K. Vedder  ·  October 18, 2022
The Tentacles of the Social Media Octopus
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  October 17, 2022


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