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Sweden bucked the trend of top-down lockdowns.

There isn’t a better time than now to add a greater level of discipline and character development to your self-care routine.

A leading homeschooling expert and Harvard alum responds in a letter to the editor.

If economic ignorance is the disease, then education is the cure.

When a government official can determine how essential someone’s livelihood is, everyone is vulnerable.

Crises like the coronavirus reveal the true extent and scope of the division of labor.

It is especially vital during massive emergencies that prices be allowed to perform their function.

Government surveillance and data collection have long been a point of contention in the United States, and the current COVID-19 pandemic shows why.

COVID-19 is a serious matter, but not so serious that we should eviscerate the Constitution to combat it. The Tenth Amendment makes it abundantly clear that police powers reside with state and local governments.

When did faith in a free society’s enterprising market system give way to self-fulfilling prophecies of doom?

A regulatory taking is when a regulation put forth by a governmental authority diminishes the value of one’s property.

The Coumneros revolted against an arrogant and power-hungry king.

We should ever be on guard against the government’s arrogation of unwarranted powers, especially in light of what history shows the state is capable of doing in times of emergency.

Dian Graves Stai has directed over a hundred million dollars to a diverse range of recipients in her local community of Abilene, Texas, and around the country.

Allowing Americans to deploy their knowledge and skills to innovate and provide essential services must take priority over the concerns of burdensome regulatory boards.

Only a steady, dedicated effort can transform the World Health Organization into a force for good.

What many economists are imploring is that decision-makers do not blindly push all the chips to the middle of the COVID-19 table, with no concern for other valued ends.

Over 100 years, the Federal Reserve has destroyed more than 97 percent of our currency’s purchasing power.

Set the health care industry free, and the market will provide—if we let it.

In the 1940s there was an estimated one million USSR citizens participating in the Soviet System. The pretense of "council democracy" had long been exposed as a fable, however.

The ultimate lesson of James J. Hill and his Great Northern Railroad is that the “winners” government picks today are the “losers” of tomorrow.

In order to overcome the coronavirus crisis and to be fully prepared for the next public health episode, America must rid itself of the bureaucracy that has slowly choked out the greatest medical industry in the world.

If millions of Americans are making more trips to the grocery because of anti-price gouging laws or sentiment, it would be a sad irony.

To save lives, we need to cut back on regulations and red tape that make it harder to fight the virus.

The “Hoover did nothing and FDR saved us” fairy tale is the myth that refuses to die.

The real mystery is full shelves, not empty ones.

Americans should be thankful that we still have business owners with an entrepreneurial spirit.

US leaders need to begin planning and informing Americans of the possibilities that lie ahead.

Melitta Bentz, a diminutive housewife from Germany, remains an important figure in the storied history of one of the world’s most popular beverages.

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Children and their parents have an unprecedented opportunity to learn without school.

While COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to surge, the upshot is that the number of people who are actively infected and contagious is far lower than the total of reported and undiagnosed cases.

Let’s take a look at both the good and bad sides of what national emergencies leave in their wake.

Not only does the US government never pay back what it has borrowed, somehow the emergency stimulus spending always becomes the new normal.

As we all look forward to the end of the novel coronavirus pandemic, let’s be thankful that we live in the 21st Century, not the 14th.

Artificially raising prices with a tariff does not make sense.

Why is so much perfectly good milk draining into pits instead of replenishing empty dairy aisles?

In the wake of forced closures, an unprecedented number of Americans are now jobless.

California is too diverse a state for the same regulations to apply everywhere.

When the COVID-19 pandemic is over, the best possible thing we can do is to allow people to travel to places that let them employ their talents, so they can build a better life for themselves and the rest of humanity.

Panic can put us on edge, but it’s crucial we remain calm and level-headed.

South Korea succeeded in stopping the spread of the virus and avoided shutting down its economy as the United States and most of Europe have done.

The longer life in Sweden remains relatively normal, the more we should be encouraged.

The world will change after this pandemic, but human ingenuity can change it for the better. Trust in that.

From an economic perspective, the value of toilet paper is much higher now than it was pre-pandemic.

We have never been better-equipped to cope with a nationwide quarantine of schoolchildren.

Instead of sitting and waiting, watching her debt grow bigger, financial journalist Janet Alvarez decided to act.

With transparency and diligence the Taiwanese government has avoided many problems.

An obviously better solution than sinking the world economy into a great depression is a greater use of “laissez-faire”.