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US Faces Electricity Shortages Heading Into Summer, as Grid Operators Warn of Limits of Green Energy
Evidence shows America’s power grid is increasingly unreliable and struggling to keep up with energy demand.
Want to Ease Inflation? Start by Lifting the China Tariffs
The tariffs are doing significantly more harm than good.
Is Inflation Boosting Teen Employment?
The summer job is making a comeback, and inflation may be a factor.
The Mark Twain Novel That Contains One of the Best (and Funniest) Economic Lessons in All of Literature
In "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," Twain, "knocks the stuffing” out of protectionism.
The Myth That Sports Stadiums Create New Jobs and Tax Revenues
Why the numbers just don't add up for taxpayers
The VA Bought 10,000 Smartphones during the Pandemic. 85% Were Never Used
There’s a right way and a wrong way to help homeless veterans.
How the “Ministry of Truth” Can Censor You Without (Technically) Censoring You
When centralized authorities are responsible for sorting truth from lies, it creates a situation prone to abuse.
No Increase in Flight Cancellations After CDC Mask Mandate Lifted, Data Show
Data suggest that fears of widespread cancellation of flights in the wake of the CDC mask mandate being lifted are baseless, thankfully.
Universal Preschool Programs Expand, Despite Documented Harms
The educational harms of taxpayer-funded preschool programs are joined by widespread economic harms.
Food Banks Straining to Meet Demand Show the Real Human Cost of Progressive Policies
Families are seeing the pinch at home, but so too are the charities that pick up the grocery bill for those who can’t make ends meet.
Employers May Want to Stop Humiliating “the Help” with Mask Requirements
Especially given record labor shortages in the service industry.
Never Say Capitalism Can’t Save Free Speech
Elon Musk's Twitter takeover casts doubt on the assumption that government is the only solution to online censorship.
What Star Wars Taught Me About War, Liberty, and Human Nature
What is it about Star Wars that speaks so strongly to the human psyche?
Charleston Looks to Make Housing More Affordable by Removing Price Controls
The affordability requirements backfired big time.
Mori Arinori: The Japanese Tocqueville, Part 3
At the age of 41, Mori Arinori's life was claimed by an assassin angered over his opposition to teaching religion in schools.
Why Energy Prices Are Projected to Increase 50% in 2022—After Doubling Last Year
Energy prices are going to the moon. Here are three reasons why.
Even The Guardian Understands Free-Market Competition
Well done to The Guardian for spotlighting the benefit of free-market competition.
Destroying Food to Fight Climate Change Is Madness—and a Conceit That Could Prove Fatal
What is happening in Northern Ireland is part of a larger push to wean humans off red meat, particularly beef, which humans consume to the tune of 350 millions tons each year.
The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Perfect Book for Understanding Our Economic Climate
Lawrence White's book does a masterful job of reconstructing the most important economic ideas of our time.
Paul Revere’s Untold Story
Paul Revere was also a great American businessman and one of America's first mass producers.
Private-Sector Union Membership Hit Record Low in 2021, Labor Department Data Show
Private-sector union membership fell to 6.1 percent in 2021, the lowest level since the federal government started tracking this data.
Why You Shouldn’t Celebrate the TSA for Employing 47,000 Workers
The lump of labor hypothesis—that there are only so many jobs “out there”—is a fallacy.
New Report Reveals the Federal Government Is Spending Millions To Get Animals High
Research indicates that the federal government is actually responsible for the vast majority of animal cruelty in the country.
From Pandemic Playgroups to a Thriving Microschool: How One "Edupreneur" Met Rising Parent Demand for Schooling Alternatives
Now is an ideal time for more parents, educators, and innovators to build new K-12 learning models.
“Ministry of Truth” Trends on Twitter After Government Unveils New “Disinformation Governance Board”
The revelation that the government had created a new board to fight “disinformation” prompted a slew of Nineteen Eighty-Four comparisons.
Biden Hints He’s Planning to "Cancel" Student Debt. Here’s Why Student Debt Holders Should Be against the Move
Ethics aside, there’s also a practical reason for student debt holders to push back on debt cancellation.
Is the NFL Draft Socialism?
Critics are wrong. The NFL draft is actually an amazing organizational device for the pursuit of profit.
Are Subsidies Capitalist?
Subsidies violate the trader principle, which is key to capitalism.
Mike Tyson Spotted Reading One of the Greatest Economics Books Ever
No book is a better antidote to economic illiteracy than Thomas Sowell’s "Basic Economics."
Why James Madison Would Be Appalled at Fauci’s Contempt for Checks and Balances
Fauci’s problem isn’t just with Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle. His problem is with the American system.
Mori Arinori: The Japanese Tocqueville (Part 2)
Mori Arinori saw America’s grasping political class as its greatest liability. He was far more sanguine about America’s immigrants, farmers, artisans, entrepreneurs and housewives.
Was Accepting Elon Musk's Offer the Only Moral Choice for Twitter's Board?
There’s a reason Milton Friedman said the desire of corporate owners is “generally” to make as much money as possible. So what if Twitter' executive board had cared about more than making money for shareholders?
The Economics of Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal
Elon Musk was only able to pull off the Twitter purchase because he has a strong track record of creating value.
We Can Know What’s False. But We Shouldn’t Censor It
We should have learned by now that censorship is bad even if you're confident that you're censoring "the right things." But the debate continues.
Mario Vargas Llosa: The Peruvian Novelist Who Abandoned Castroism and Became a Leading Classical Liberal
Mario Vargas Llosa rose from humble means to became one of the world's most celebrated writers. But his journey was not a straight line.
New “Anti-Capitalist” Cafe in Toronto Perfectly Demonstrates Why Capitalism Is Awesome
The irony here is hard to miss.
How Jackie Robinson Found Himself in the Dodgers Lineup in 1947
It's easy to forget that baseball was integrated by market forces, not government.
Why Nancy Pelosi Once Cut Off an Interview After She Was Asked about Unpaid Interns in Her Office
The House Speaker saw she was enmeshed in a self-contradiction. She supported minimum wage laws, but paid many of her interns $0.
Why China Is Surpassing the United States Economically
Since the late twentieth century, America has headed in one direction on the freedom scale and China in the other.
What Gordon Ramsay's Success Can Teach Marxists about Entrepreneurship
Business owners play an important role in producing goods and services, and to say that they do nothing but exploit workers and their labor is simply not true.
The Biggest Reason Netflix Shares Are Tanking
The main reason Netflix is hitting headwinds is straightforward: competition.
Celebrating Freedom in Prague—Three Decades After Its Liberation from Soviet Socialism
Today the Czech Republic is one of the freest countries in the world. It wasn't always so.
Musk and Obama Agree: Big Tech’s Algorithms Should Be Transparent
In his speech at Stanford University on Thursday, former President Barack Obama said social media companies should stop guarding their algorithms. As it happens, a different VIP also recently called for transparency.
How a California Tattoo Artist Beat Public Health Officials Who Tried to Deny Her a Permit
Tattoo artist Delia Fields won her legal battle because courts recognize greater constitutional protections for speech than for the right to earn a living. But if a business is non-expressive, it has almost no constitutional protection against arbitrary restrictions.
3 Ways Markets Are Protecting Our Environment
Markets can save the environment. In fact, they’re already doing It.
Why the Feds Are Clinging to Their Mask Mandate
Airports have been the main stages for security and hygiene "theater."
Boston College Psychology Professor: “School Has Become a Toxic Place for Children"
Self-directed education, grounded in play, is most beneficial for youth learning and development.
Biden’s ‘Buy American’ Order on Steel Is Right Out of ‘Atlas Shrugged’
Forcing companies to purchase goods at higher prices isn’t a path to economic prosperity.
Reagan’s Goal to End the Department of Education Is Finally Gaining Momentum
Ending the Department of Education may seem like a radical idea, but it’s not as crazy as it sounds.
Mori Arinori: The Japanese Tocqueville (Part 1)
By any measure, Mori Arinori's short life was remarkable.
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