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No matter how good our intentions are, government involvement in education is bound to create political struggles and choose winners and losers.

Paternalistic thinking underlies this nonsense.

As much as Biden seems to draw on FDR’s legacy, his knowledge of his positions seems to have one glaring omission. FDR was opposed to public sector unions.

Biden quickly stumbled into misleading territory and, at times, flat-out wrong assertions.

The Atlantic’s prediction on what would happen if Georgia lifted pandemic restrictions was a hot mess. But it can teach us a lot.

It’s official: food inflation has arrived. Food prices soared 3.9 percent in 2020, the Department of Agriculture recently reported.

The company's Chief Financial Officer just explained why a $15 minimum wage would ultimately hit customers in the wallet.

Concerns about population growth are nothing new. And a recent article in British Vogue is based on the same flawed assumptions.

Turns out, socialist politicians aren't so socialist in their own lives.

Football star Trevor Lawrence’s signing bonus is expected to be in the ballpark of $22.5 million. Can anything stop cryptos?

The proposed reform is an unobjectionable yet much-needed step in the right direction.

New taxes are always bad news, but this one is particularly alarming.

The case involves New York gunowners Brandon Koch and Robert Nash, who were denied a license to carry because they did not “demonstrate a special need for self-defense.”

Many unemployed workers would be able earn more staying on welfare than by returning to work.

Brown University finds that the true human and economic costs of continuing this conflict are astounding—and growing.

Canadian economist Douglas Ward Allen recently ran a cost-benefit analysis of lockdowns. The trade-off hardly seems worth it.

Top free-market economists interviewed exclusively by FEE warn that the entire economy, not just the wealthy, would suffer in one key way from such a significant capital gains tax increase.

DEPCOM Power CEO Johnnie Taul explains why the free market future of solar energy is so bright.

A review of James R. Otteson new book “Seven Deadly Economic Sins.”

The failure of Indiana’s gun law to prevent the FedEx shooting reveals the inherent problems with red flag laws.

A new report shines a light on 285 suspect budget ‘earmarks’ from fiscal year 2020, totaling a whopping $16.8 billion.

Eminent domain is a direct violation of property rights, regardless of what it’s used for.

The expansion of government is the root cause of the problems with policing today.

There is no constitutional role for the federal government in education.

Mandating lower nicotine content in cigarettes would likely have unintended consequences that far outweigh any benefit—and could even prove lethal.

Venezuela's National College of Journalists said the supreme court's action against El Nacional is "a further step toward the liquidation of freedom of expression in Venezuela.”

Governments in the US spend an astonishing amount of money each year lobbying each other. Some lawmakers have had enough.

Better safe than sorry, right? Well, no, and Bill Maher just perfectly explained why.

Parents are starting to push back. Here's what we can do to empower them.

A key aspect of the White House’s grand plan to put Americans back to work is projected to boomerang back in workers’ faces.

Mass fear can result in censorship that is just as stifling and oppressive as government bans, history shows.

The congresswoman's latest remarks misunderstand or reject the key role the Supreme Court plays in safeguarding our constitutional liberties.

You might never know the impact you make, but that doesn’t mean you didn’t make one.

While the actual public health benefits of lockdowns are unclear, the deadly unintended consequences they caused are painfully obvious.

A century ago, American antitrust law more or less meant the government could pick winners and losers. We can’t let that happen again.

Rent control can’t fix housing problems. It’s one of the few issues economists overwhelmingly agree on.

Just six months after arriving in Petrograd with the help of Germany, the Russian communist Vladimir Lenin had engineered the October Revolution. The story does not end there, however.

Here’s how it would play out.

The justifications for requiring young children to be masked are that either they are at-risk for COVID, or at-risk for being carriers of the virus.

Maybe Americans will finally realize the extent to which federal bureaucracy routinely stops potentially life-saving innovation in its tracks.

The dark and empty streets devoid of commerce have brought back memories of a past that many Czechs would sooner forget.

In his new book "The Dictatorship of Woke Capital," Steve Soukup explores the rise of progressivism as a cultural force and explains why corporations increasingly are taking sides in politics.

Rowe knows the value of hard work, so it’s worth taking his recent warning on minimum wage hikes seriously.

Children not enrolled in public kindergarten are not ‘missing.’ Their parents know exactly where they are.

When people say “follow the science,” often what they’re really saying is “follow our plan.”

The Bolsheviks were divided on why War Communism failed, but economics gives us a clear answer.

Free market competition is the key to faster, more efficient, and safer transportation services.

The deregulation of real estate markets doesn’t just make economic sense. It is also a moral imperative.

The Wall Street Journal reports its job market is growing faster than any metropolitan areas in the country. Here's why.

The president’s rhetoric is optimistic—but these new long-term projections aren’t.