Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America appears on Fox Business News’ Varney & Co. Is government the cause of higher tuition and admission scandals surrounding US colleges and universities? Richard Vedder says yes, especially the crisis in student loan debt.

The US is sending an aircraft carrier strike group to the Persian Gulf as a warning to Iran. Iran has signaled it might violate part of the nuclear deal it reached in 2015. At the same time, rockets fired into Israel from Gaza has sparked more Middle East tension. Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of the new book War and the Rogue Presidency.

Independent Institute Sr. Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America is interviewed on the Lars Larson national radio show. Vedder talks about the reasons why college is so expensive and offers solutions on how to restore the promise of higher education in today's economy.

What is at the heart of the college admissions scandal? Independent Institute Senior Fellow Richard Vedder, author of Restoring the Promise: Higher Education in America explains, as he describes how the state of college education got to where it is today. With rising student loan debt and schemes of free college for all, Vedder makes the case bringing back the promise of higher education.

Is it time to abolish the US Department of Education? Yes, says Independent Institute Research Fellow Vicki Alger, author of Failure: The Federal Misedukation of America's Children appears on the Rod Arquette Show on KNRS radio. She explains how a handful of bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of the education of America's children, Parents need more control and choice in their children's education, says Alger.

Independent Institute Senior Fellow George B. N. Ayittey, in a conversation with David R. Burton at the Heritage Foundation about all the damages that Socialism caused to Africa. The "socialist" experiment failed in countries like Angola (under dos Santos), Benin (under Kerekou), Ethiopia (under Mengistu), Ghana (under Nkrumah), Guinea (under Toure), Mali (under Keita), Mozambique (under Chissano), Tanzania (under Nyerere), and Zambia, among others.

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Independent Institute Senior Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook and Mark W. Smith presentation. This event was recorded at the CPAC 2019 held in National Harbor, MD on February 28, 2019.

Remington may be held responsible for the murders of school children in Sandy Hook, CT due to the marketing the AR-15 rifle as a tool of crime. Sr. Fellow Stephen Halbrook, a Second Amendment attorney, says Remington didn't market their products thusly, so any lawsuits against Remington, the maker of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle should be dismissed. However, the courts in the state of Connecticut have decided the lawsuit can go forward.