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Disaster mortality seems to be a perfectly useful metric for understanding climate change-when the numbers tell the right story.

The parallels between the Pentagon Papers and WikiLeaks are stunning. And Julian Assange deserves the same First Amendment protections as Daniel Ellsberg.

Economic principles are operating all around us-if we know where to look.

Stockholm fired a shot across the Establishment bow by recognizing Hayek, but it was an honor the great man from Vienna richly deserved.

Antitrust laws are built on nothing but poor reasoning and misguided apprehensions.

Did you know that two of the most famous samurai in history were not Japanese?

The fiscal burden of the United States is getting seriously out of hand.

Any efforts to control new school startups or create guardrails" around them will only slow educational progress and stymie entrepreneurship and innovation.

Non-compete clauses get a lot of hate, but the arguments against them don't have much merit.

Many more people in Sweden are alive today because Anders Tegnell understands the economic lesson of secondary consequences better than many economists.

Ask an Economist #27

Consumers need free competition, not misguided regulations.

Conscription is forced labor, and a particularly egregious type of forced labor at that. It has no place in a free society.

Even if the surge pricing" fears were true, would that experiment really be such a bad thing?

Meiji Japan was not a liberal paradise. But the country in 1900 was notably freer, more industrialized and prosperous, and substantially more modern than it had been just three decades earlier.

Ask an Economist #26

The British government is funding leftist activist organizations that are lobbying against the government's own policies.

Minnesota lawmakers are at best offering a solution" to a problem that doesn't exist. At worst, they are weaponizing the law to benefit special interests.

In a free market, schools that focus on socialist ideology and radical politics" could exist.

The proposed wealth tax is just the latest in a series of attacks against productive entrepreneurs.

Exploring the existential crisis behind the fear of AI.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a major win for free speech and police reform by awarding a Louisiana man $205,000 in compensatory and punitive damages for an unlawful 2020 raid.

The revelation that Argentina has done something the US government hasn't done in more than two decades-run a budget surplus-seems like a newsworthy event. So why the silence?

We are thrilled to begin our next chapter with Diogo at the helm.

The outcome of New Jersey's ban on single-use plastic bags is a perfect illustration of an economic truth.

What Putin said about Poland cries out for rectification.

Ask an Economist #25

The sun may be setting on the dollar's global hegemony.

Mergers and acquisitions often facilitate faster product innovation. So why are governments prohibiting them?

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the bureau violated the constitutional rights of safe-deposit box holders whose property was seized without probable cause, something the warrant explicitly prohibited.

The samurai class appeared late in the Heian Period as warriors for local clans.

We are breaking down walls between communities and classrooms," said Revolution School founder, Gina Moore.

Economics shows up everywhere in life, which means lessons learned in one domain can often be applied to others.

Ask an Economist #24

How Jim's life made the world a better place.

The Department of Labor's new worker classification rule is a blatant power grab designed to make it more difficult for people to work as independent contractors.

If you type rising inequality" into Google, you'll get more than 75 million hits. Can such a widespread thesis be wrong?

A Canadian court has, thankfully, finally put Mr. Trudeau in check over his flagrant abuse of power.

There's nothing wrong with using a phrase someone else came up with. But there is a lot wrong with coercively preventing such use.

Japanese history illustrates the fact that, when it comes to war, the Far East is no different from the Middle East or whatever is either east or west from wherever you are.

There is no justification for assuming from the outset that a merger or acquisition will be bad for consumers.

The federal government's effort to save the planet by more aggressively regulating our appliances likely sounds utterly absurd to some and entirely sensible to others. What's undebatable is that it's a battle that stretches back decades.

Legacy media are no longer shrugging off concerns about the federal debt.But one media crown jewel informed listeners they had little to fear from this mountain of public debt.

More than a few Aussies will hoist a glass of rum when they offer a toast to their country on this day-and for good reason.

The human disaster in Argentina was not caused by climate change or AI or misinformation."

What is the takeaway from Japan's Muromachi Era? A little bit of freedom goes a long way.

How a brand is perceived by consumers can influence not only market structures, but also culture and even government policy.

Conversations with leaders of an array of educational models yields some inspiring advice for emerging entrepreneurs eyeing launches in the new year.

As Blackberry's story shows, being big is hardly a guarantee of prolonged success in the market.

Perhaps the best answer is to let the market decide.