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International adoption has become less common and governments around the world are to blame.

An escape from reality can be a good thing. But be sure it's the right escape for the right reasons.

Sometimes authoritarians and other bad actors use reasonable criticisms of democracy as justification for their bad actions. So should we stop?

A foreign governments' market interventions do not justify prohibiting trade with them.

December 7 was infamous before America was a country.

Mao Yushi has spent the great majority of his life fighting for economic liberty in China.

The new game CryptoKitties is a fascinating way to play with trading actual assets over the blockchain instead of just currency.

People need ways of protecting themselves from greedy government.

Without a license, one is no longer legally permitted to work.

Slowly and subconsciously, people are re-adopting the libertarian concepts that made the US great in the first place.

Most Millennials have a positive view of socialism and communism, but they don't have all the facts.

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The CBO gets almost everything almost always wrong.

Remember the plight of Soviet Jews and remember how the whole world came together to help them.

A monopoly situation happens a few ways and can mean a few things, but it's pretty much never a problem unless the state is involved.

The administration should take pause before appointing Senator Cotton as CIA Director.

Taxlandia: tax can be FUN!

In a just society, mass murderers' group identity wouldn't matter, but we do not live in that society.

The bill put forth by Warren and Schatz would damage the entire credit reporting industry for one company's mistake.

Communism promised utopia, but delivered nastier, poorer, and shorter lives.

The revolving door of recidivism is not simply the consequence of imprisoning the most crime-prone individuals.

Fund managers can use their influence to signal their virtue via proxy votes for green investments and bear no cost.

Congress has the power to defund asset forfeiture programs or ban them outright, and they should.

The government has a substance problem and it's time for an intervention.

Bezos' dedication to encouraging self-reliance is admirable and encouraging.

Why on earth would anyone shell out an absurd amount of money for a piece of art?

This brilliant Bud Light ad flips the old sense of who rules whom.

We are addicted to the dopamine rush of getting social media likes, and it's ruining our lives.

The money spent on the war on poverty can mask the symptoms but does not cure the underlying cause of poverty.

Protecting nature for nature's sake isn't a particularly compelling argument.

If we make the economy itself rich then everyone in that economy will also become, by global standards, rich.

Marxism has appeal because it is consistent with our primitive beliefs about economics.

Kids can’t sit in school all day long without a meaningful break because they aren’t supposed to.

Sure, winning American Idol might jump start a career, but that career rarely lasts.

Congress is almost universally despised. Will a fresh crop of shiny new Congresspeople solve the problem? Probably not.

The Supreme Court saved the program by calling it a tax. It should be repealed like a tax.

You've never really had to adult before, and adulting is hard. But it doesn't have to be.

America has a very global perspective when it comes to taxation, and the IRS makes no exceptions, not even for future princesses.

"Murder on the Orient Express" had the potential to be truly excellent, but it just wasn't.

Republicans desperately need competition in the arena of ideas so that they too can improve, but the left have nothing.

Bitcoin is backed by the use value of the distributed ledger in the underlying technology of the Blockchain.

Taxis are still available for those who want them, but there are now many other choices.

Liberals are increasingly recognizing that this progressive institution has gone way too far.

There is no principled pro-liberty case for immigration restrictions.

The cobra effect is not necessarily confined to instances of pest control.

It is truly impressive how much economic nonsense this Nobel laureate managed to squeeze into a two-minute soundbite.

Americans overwhelmingly agree that marijuana should be legal, so why isn't it? So glad you asked...

The animated movie Coco offers up a remarkable theory of history.

Evidence consistently shows that countries with robust economic freedoms have a much stronger track record of human rights.

"The Liberalization Reform" of 1977 failed totally, not because the policies were bad, but because they were not fully implemented.