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Although controversial among many, nuclear power remains the main source of zero-carbon energy.

Benjamin Franklin was dubbed “The First American” for a reason.

Prohibition’s end is worth celebrating. It’s inception is something to lament.

Workers in California should be free to choose their own adventures.

Alexis de Tocqueville would encourage those who believe in individual liberty, dignity, and responsibility to preserve and promote those virtues.

Despite Venezuela’s track record of seizing the means of production of a multitude of industries, there are still those who have trouble calling Venezuela a socialist state.

The Three Mile Island accident caused no physical harm, but the event changed public perception of the risks of nuclear energy.

As the universal story of immigrants shows, it is possible for people to leave poverty behind for good.

We are confident that if those who love liberty continue to work hard and smart, Brazil’s best days are ahead.

As we mark Edmund Burke’s January 12 birthday, consider some of Burke’s words that Leonard Read found worth sharing.

The nation is in the midst of a housing crisis. As FEE readers well know, government policies like zoning restrictions and rent control contribute to and sustain the problem.

To break free, we must examine how each and everyone of us are affected.

Hugo Chávez set his people on a path to serfdom from which there was no turning back.

A businessperson’s reputation is vitally important to their success.

Putting a cleaner, denser, less-expensive solution to energy storage on the market would be a huge win for customers and shareholders.

Some people think that becoming rich is merely a question of luck. Don't believe it.

The nations and institutions most resolutely promoting the debt-based, institutionalized model of foreign assistance might consider whether there are more sustainable, less injurious forms of assistance to materially poor nations.

While there’s a lot of resolution advice on the internet, much of it fails to highlight the crux of behavioral change.

At age 14, Alina Morse achieved “the American Dream.” How did it happen?

When a country adopts the dollar as its medium of exchange, we call it “dollarization.” That’s what the government of Ecuador formally embraced in 2000.

Modern homeschooling encompasses an array of different educational philosophies and practices, from school-at-home methods to unschooling to hybrid homeschooling.

Worldwide, over two billion cups of coffee are drunk daily, and over 125 million are employed in the coffee industry. All this economic activity occurs without a mastermind’s direction.

Half of the world population is bilingual, but only25%of Americans can hold a conversation in another language.

Christian charity, being voluntary and heartfelt, is utterly distinct from the compulsory, impersonal mandates of the state.

By freeing the market to meet the demands of families and individuals, we can make housing affordable and accessible for more of our neighbors.

Thanks to Xavier Roberts and a global supply chain, more than 130 million adoptable friends have been "born" since the early 1980s: one "birth" every 6.8 seconds.

Would you rather be right or successful?

Bacon is not your typical food.

The best way to disincentivize warmongering is to hold the decisionmakers directly accountable. Currently, however, decisionmakers are immune from the consequences of their decisions under the Westfall Act.

The raids constituted a horrific, shameful episode in American history, one of the lowest moments for liberty since King George III quartered troops in private homes.

Despite what you may read in the newspapers or see on TV, humans continue to reach new heights of prosperity.

She went from selling vintage used clothing on eBay to running a 350-person, $100 million apparel company, Nasty Gal, in eight years.

Telemachus, a previously unknown monk, moved the heart of a Roman Emperor.

Be nice to each other. It really is that simple.

It’s important to not let hard-fought victories for liberty and progress go unnoticed.

We ignore the intelligence trap at our own peril.

Arthur Guinness sure knew how to brew a dark, creamy stout.

How about a toast to the man-made marvel that is a modern capitalist economy?

New Year’s resolutions don’t work.

All recycling in history, in all its innovative variants—and at levels from individual scrap collectors to energy-conserving industries—had been economic. What happened?

We have much to be grateful for and many reasons to be ecstatic about continued human progress.

With open borders, the world GDP would roughly double in size.

As we approach 2020 here at FEE, we're happy to share with you the most popular articles of the past decade.

As we approach a new year, we should remember that eternal vigilance truly is the price of liberty.

The date was chosen for a reason you might not think.

At this time of year especially, the wide variety of individual human preferences and interests becomes abundantly clear.

Doing good while doing well proposition does not describe government officials’ actions.

True compassion is helping others out of a genuine sense of caring and brotherhood. It is not asking your legislator or congressman to do it for you.

Allegations that higher-income earners don’t pay their “fair share” of taxes are a mainstay misrepresentation of the political left.

California’s Assembly Bill 5 has already had an adverse impact on the state's freelance writers, approximately two-thirds of whom are women.