from FEE

The truth of the matter is that high-earners in America pay well beyond their fair share.

If we use policy to control population size, who will decide what the correct number of humans is?

Welfare reform in Canada was a victory for taxpayers and also good news for poor people who escaped dependency.

Today’s U.S. governments at every level impose their maternalism not only on children, but on everyone, as the saying goes, from the cradle to the grave.

China should respond to American tax cuts by boost growth and wages with lower tax rates.

While the basic story is a charming tale with which many of us can empathize, I find the backstory of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” almost more so.

FEE's Jeffrey Tucker speaks about his latest book and the pervasive threat to liberty that is right-wing collectivism.

Adam Heydel was a martyr of Polish liberalism and the Austrian School of Economics.

In their frantic attempts to stem the tide of opioid overdoses, all the government is really doing is causing patients already in pain more of it.

The Open Internet rules the FCC devised based on Title II authority expressly permit ISPs to block, filter and curate content.

Chinese consumers are now benefitting from more competition and lower prices.

As much as economists love Adam Smith, Charlotte’s Web is a better way for kids to learn basic economic truths.

What is it about stories that make them so universally attractive?

The powerful combination of voluntary giving and market incentives makes private charity a much better choice for poverty alleviation than government welfare will ever be.

The left is getting nuttier, the hard right is getting scarier, and the entire enterprise of political control seems ever more outmoded.

Cryptocurrencies could provide a new monetary solution and system for the digital age and digital economy.

The marketplace can be a brutal place, but capitalism is also one the most cooperative of human endeavors.

There are always people who will try to dishonestly get what others have but consumers need not be deceived.

A new Gallup poll found that Americans' feelings on one issue are strikingly similar to those from a poll taken during the Watergate era.

Dickinson recognized that the essential purpose of government was to maintain liberty against others’ predatory acts.

People may decide it’s okay to be stoners because they can rely on handouts to stay alive instead of staying clean and having a job.

Americans can’t put up with Big Sugar’s crony methods any longer.

Free market capitalism does not increase inequality; it decreases it.

People are eating out more than at any point in modern human history.

Bubble, bubble; toil and trouble.

We should celebrate those who bring value to the world, regardless of their size.

Washing machine protectionism, like every other kind, will harm American companies and consumers alike.

Jobs are abstractions.

George Mason considered a bill of rights so important that he refused to sign the Constitution and led the opposition to its ratification without one.

Soviet rule was awful for everyone, but women suffered particularly bad indignities.

Difference isn’t bad, and can even enrich our lives. But having vicious people as friends make us worse off.

This book is but a glimpse of the force for change that he was to become.

Framing is a psychological technique that can influence the perception of social phenomena.

In the Bitcoin community, you dare not show signs of wealth. Someone might think you are poor.

This year has been one of the greatest of my life, full of amazing changes that point to a bright future for all the things I care about. This year has also made me most grateful for life itself.

Yakovlev chose to forgo the comfortable life and rich privileges of the communist elite for what he knew was right.

Most of France — and the rest of the world — are deeply ignorant of economic truths.

How can there be any doubt when Facebook and Google are well on their way?

Immigrants can help by making services like medical care more readily available.

Tariffs ultimately affect the price of all solar panels,

Health insurance is expensive, true, but so were cars, calculators, and cellphones, once. The difference is functioning markets.

Everyone loves tech's hottest buzzword, but no one seems to know what it means.

No government can patronize one class but at the expense of others.

The United States has engaged in more military interventions in the past 28 years than it had in the previous 190 years of its existence.

The bully-victim relationship commonly plays out in homes, schools, workplaces, in politics, and between countries.

Sometimes people say critical things of other people or entities and sometimes that criticism leads to threats against the target. But should the original criticism be stifled because of it?

Government does not need to do more to promote female entrepreneurship.

Socialism is not the answer.

The controversial Article 13 is getting some push-back from some officials, but it isn't dead yet.

In the panic rush, let's pause to consider the meaning of it all.