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Ryan Bourne Note: This is an excerpt from my book The War on Prices, made all the more relevant by...

Romina Boccia It’s tempting to believe that Social Security is an “earned benefit”—after all, that’s a prevalent idea we’ve been...

Deirdre N. McCloskey On July 25, more than four years after the emergence of COVID-19 and the authoritarian reaction to...

Adam N. Michel At the end of 2017, Republicans cut the federal corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21...

Gene Healy The other week, I did some get-off-my lawn grumbling about “libertarians these days.” When Donald Trump came down that...

Clark Packard, Scott Lincicome, and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon During a campaign stop in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, over the weekend (Aug. 17–18),...

Peter Van Doren Soon-to-be Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris announced a proposal to empower the federal government to ban corporate...

David Inserra This past weekend (Aug. 17–18), X announced it would close its local offices in Brazil in response to...

Ryan Bourne Note: This is an excerpt from my book The War on Prices. High inflation and supply shocks in...

Jeffrey Miron Politicians on both sides of the aisle, and much popular opinion, believe the government should subsidize having children....