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Special Master Ruling Smacks of Excessive Reverence for the Imperial Presidency
Ivan Eland  ·  September 22, 2022
Is Latin America Beyond Hope?
Despite a glimmer of hope in Chile, its prospects are dire.
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  September 21, 2022
Health Reforms Both Parties Should Endorse
Dean Clancy, John C. Goodman  ·  September 19, 2022
Harris Skipped Her Homework on Abortion and the Constitution
Ronald L. Trowbridge  ·  September 15, 2022
Medicare Prescription Drugs: A Case Study in Government Failure
John C. Goodman  ·  September 14, 2022
Hollywood Blacklist Backstory
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 14, 2022
Prohibition Is A Bad Way to Deal with Flavored Tobacco
William F. Shughart II, Josh T. Smith  ·  September 13, 2022
The Verdict Is in for El Salvador’s Bitcoin Experiment: It Failed
Caleb Hofmann, Steve H. Hanke  ·  September 13, 2022
Next PM Must Guarantee Britain Never Locks Down Again
Steve H. Hanke, Steve Baker  ·  September 13, 2022
Global Economic Freedom Plunged During the Coronavirus Panic
Benjamin Powell  ·  September 13, 2022
Time to Scrap the Espionage Act of 1917
Ivan Eland  ·  September 10, 2022
Reagan Was Right: Big Government Corrupts the Military Too
Christopher J. Coyne  ·  September 10, 2022
Liberals Attacking Economists Should Check Their Student Loan Hypocrisy
Burton A. Abrams  ·  September 9, 2022
Socialism Was Never Great
Not even Mikhail Gorbachev could fix the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  September 9, 2022
How Old Bad Ideas Become Wonderful
We in America are regressing—now returning to the distant neanderthal past, now embracing the worst of what the 19th and 20th century had to offer.
Victor Davis Hanson  ·  September 9, 2022
Buttigieg’s ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Program Will Solve Nothing
James T. Bennett  ·  September 8, 2022
Could America Go the Way of the Soviet Union?
Judy L. Shelton  ·  September 7, 2022
Biden and Powell Are at Odds on Inflation
Monetary tightening at the Federal Reserve can’t tame price increases in the face of a spendthrift White House and Congress.
Judy L. Shelton  ·  September 2, 2022
Is Extreme Weather Causing the World’s Rivers to Dry Up?
David R. Legates  ·  August 31, 2022
No ‘Banana Republic’: The FBI Was Right to Search Mar-A-Lago
Ivan Eland  ·  August 30, 2022
Inflation Will Hit Universities Hard
Richard K. Vedder  ·  August 27, 2022
A Midterm Election Strategy for the GOP: Focus on Seniors
John C. Goodman  ·  August 26, 2022
Student Loan Handout—Illegal, Inflationary, Immoral, Inequitable and More
Biden aiding Democrat university allies with disastrous student loan handout
Richard K. Vedder  ·  August 26, 2022
Killing of Al-Qaeda Leader Shouldn’t Obscure Some Hard Questions
Ivan Eland  ·  August 25, 2022
What the U.S. Supreme Court Bruen Decision Will Mean for America
The U.S. Supreme Court declared New York’s “good-cause” requirement for the right to bear arms outside the home unconstitutional, but the struggle for freedom is hardly over.
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  August 25, 2022


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