from FEE

Candidates were back at it last week, competing to see who could present the best student loan forgiveness plan.

Remember, you can always make time for what’s important to you.

Instead of reducing travel by air, we should look at how innovation solves the challenges of carbon emissions.

More freedom to work and less coerced labor in school would be awesome for everyone.

Consumers could use a little less environmental hysteria and hot air about the low-cost electricity that makes AC possible.

Tacking on the word “democratic” doesn’t change things. Socialism has never been democratic.

The most prominent of these heroines—among them Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, Mary Morris Knowles, Elizabeth Heyrick, and Lucy Townsend—deserve to be remembered for their work and their boldness.

Science writer Neil deGrasse Tyson says human emotions tend to respond more to spectacle than data. He's right.

For their unorthodox views, some physicians are being treated as medical heretics. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to their websites.

America’s negotiating credibility has become yet another casualty of its polarized politics.

Entrepreneurs do a much better job than politicians at alleviating scarcity through efficient, value-creating production.

Even if you’re content in your career, you never know when your company may go under, the economy may turn, or when you desire to grow beyond your current position.

With 32 million hectares of arable land, the largest country in Europe by area now has an opportunity to undo one of the most poisonous legacies of communism.

America’s middle class did start largely disappearing in the 1970s, but it was because they were moving up to higher-income groups, not down into a lower-income category.

Economist Tyler Cowen has made the case that having more children is the best way to ensure that the human species will be able to deal with a climate crisis should one occur.

Regulatory agencies often become dominated by the very industries they are charged with regulating.

In his celebrated philosophical work "Pensées," Blaise Pascal explained why our waking hours are often filled with care and anxiety instead of serenity.

If we can reduce the power of the presidency to constitutional levels, it may not be worth the effort for the power-hungry, the social climbers, and the money-grubbers.

Minimum wage laws ignore the inherent diversity of humanity.

For decades, many economists have argued that itemized tax deductions complicate the individual income tax code, overly benefit the rich, and distort economic decision-making.

When consumers are allowed to satisfy their wants with their preferred goods, the results are disparate levels of individual prosperity.

Cuba has a sad history. It traded a regular dictatorship for a communist dictatorship six decades ago, and the results have been predictably awful.

Despite the good intentions of many of the candidates’ ideas, the proposed policies ignore basic economic realities.

Recessions are not something to be “fought.” They are natural, healthy phenomena—the part of the business cycle when labor, investors, and management step back, take a deep breath, and reassess how resources are being used.

We must confront the reality that "cancellation" of student loan debt may successfully serve a political campaign promise, but it fails as serious policy.

A new twist has emerged in the story over alleged pay disparities between the US Women's Soccer and their male counterparts.

In the end, raising the minimum wage transfers income from less valuable workers who become unemployed to more valuable workers who retain their jobs.

Extreme poverty in America still exists, of course. But it includes far fewer people than was previously believed.

There is something about nostalgia that the human psyche craves. And as consumers living in the most prosperous time in history, we increasingly have the luxury of making purchasing decisions based on how products make us feel.

Socialists are novelty-seekers. They have to be because socialist experiments never age well.

There's an old saying that you can't legislate stupidity. Overreaching policies won’t change that fact and will only end up stripping freedoms from everyone.

For the last ten years, vaping has enjoyed relative popularity in the U.S., with millions of adult users, and there has not been a single story of acute lung damage.

On his birthday, let’s celebrate Milton Friedman’s vision of enabling parents, not government, to be in control of a child’s education.

Sen. Robert Portman is proposing legislation that would impose a national 3-day limit on opioid prescriptions following surgeries.

Frank Beard's “30 Days of Gas Station Food” experiment shows that Americans enjoy a a bevy of nutritious food options, even in the places we least expect them.

Air-conditioning provides us respite from the summer heat, increased work productivity when installed in factories and offices around the world, and saved millions of people from suffering heat-related deaths.

Would Jesus, his apostles, or anyone of authority in the early Church approve of socialism?

If the minimum wage is increased from $7.25 or $10 to $15 an hour, that will give skilled workers an advantage over unskilled workers.

Capping the price of drugs without fixing the root problem will only lead to fewer Americans having access to the lifesaving drugs they need.

Thomas Paine may have been the most strident and outspoken of the Founding Fathers when it came to religious freedom, but James Madison was the most effective.

Socialism has killed too many people and caused too much suffering to be given any credence today.

Research concludes that the gender pay gap can be entirely explained by the different choices of men and women.

Only three percent of the 607 billionaires in America signed the letter, “A Message From the Billionaire’s Club: Tax Us.”

In his teachings, the Stoic philosopher Epictetus stressed that our thinking is the sole arbiter of how we experience our life.

If we allow a free market to innovate, we get fascinating results.

The ruling appears to pave the way for the removal of most of the remaining communist monuments and landmarks bearing Soviet names. It also prohibits the use of Nazi and communist symbols.

Rather than criticizing teenagers as lazy and in need of more control and structure, we should recognize the ways our culture infantilizes its teens.

The fact is that we are all subject to heuristic thinking and the biases it can give us.

Elizabeth Warren wants to bury private equity. Here’s why that is a bad idea.

People are asking how a Mercedes limousine ended up in Pyongyang. There’s no mystery here. With market goods, there’s no accounting for their final destination.