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Protectionism’s Bad Economic History
Vincent J. Geloso  ·  August 31, 2024
How Venezuela Opposition Leaders Exposed Maduro’s Election Steal
Alvaro Vargas Llosa  ·  August 29, 2024
8th Circuit Rules in Favor of Pistol Brace Owners
ATF shoots the side of a barn, draws a target around the bullet holes, and proclaims “bullseye!”
Stephen P. Halbrook  ·  August 26, 2024
Why Health Policy Problems Are Rarely Solved, Part II
John C. Goodman  ·  August 26, 2024
Lies Abound in Higher Education. Now They’ve Lost Our Respect.
Universities were once places that instilled virtue. That’s no longer true.
Richard K. Vedder  ·  August 26, 2024
California Makes Theft a Crime Again
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  August 24, 2024
Ending the Leftist Think Monopoly on Campus
Richard K. Vedder  ·  August 22, 2024
Ukraine Is Playing with Fire in Kursk
Ivan Eland  ·  August 22, 2024
Solutions to the Supreme Court’s Presidential Immunity Disaster
Ivan Eland  ·  August 21, 2024
How to Fix, Not Cut, the Social Security Benefits Tax
John C. Goodman, Stephen J. Moore  ·  August 20, 2024
The Case for Diversity in American Higher Education
Richard K. Vedder  ·  August 20, 2024
Americans Are Fleeing Blue States in Droves
Richard K. Vedder  ·  August 19, 2024
Scarcity by Decree
Chandler Reilly, Alexandre Padilla  ·  August 19, 2024
Intriguing Possibility Emerges for Federal Reserve’s Annual Retreat Next Week—It’s Not Totally Confident of Its Own Model
Judy L. Shelton  ·  August 19, 2024
Democrats Hold No Monopoly on Dalliance
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  August 17, 2024
Is Walz Worse than Newsom?
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  August 16, 2024
The Whole US Should Follow Tennessee and Welcome Foreign Doctors
Abigail Devereaux  ·  August 16, 2024
Why Health Policy Problems Rarely Get Solved
John C. Goodman  ·  August 14, 2024
How Joseph Stiglitz Tried to Legitimize Venezuela’s Dictatorship
Phillip W. Magness  ·  August 12, 2024
Monetarists Warned of a Recession
To get ahead of the curve, the Fed should follow the quantity theory of money.
Steve H. Hanke, John Greenwood, OBE  ·  August 8, 2024
Fed Chair Jerome Powell Is Trying to Explain Away the Inflation Rollercoaster—but Money Supply Is Absent from His Script
John Greenwood, OBE, Steve H. Hanke  ·  August 8, 2024
Californians Can Still Be Their Own Boss in the ‘Gig Economy,’ Also Known as the Free Market
K. Lloyd Billingsley  ·  August 6, 2024
In 2024, the Party Is Over for European Free-Riding on Defense
Ivan Eland  ·  August 3, 2024
What’s Behind Biden and Harris’s Supreme Court ‘Reform’ Plan?
William F. Shughart II  ·  August 3, 2024
Free Kids from Their Cells
Michael C. Munger  ·  August 2, 2024


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