from FEE

Over two millennia ago, Cicero argued for the importance of being just, which he defined as “doing no injury to men.”

The only way the crisis can be averted is if lawmakers from both sides of the aisle come soon to the bargaining table with a willingness to negotiate a combination of revenue increases and benefit growth restraints that put Social Security on sound financial footing.

According to FBI data, only 45 percent of violent crimes lead to arrest and prosecution.

As long as the army stands, peace is unlikely to be achieved or long-lasting.

The market is a mechanism and is neither wise nor moral.

New York Democrats want to "abolish rules that let building owners deregulate apartments and close loopholes that permit them to raise rents," the New York Times reports.

It is vital to recognize the importance of kin work, which “often happens off-market.”

An understanding and appreciation of the underlying principles of a free society upon which the United States was originally established must be regained.

Everyone seemed to have forgotten a basic lesson: when goods cross borders, armies won’t.

UBI’s cost is exorbitant, the side effects are awful, and the moral justification is ultimately flimsy.

With approximately 6,700,000 children enrolled in public and private schools in California, Senate Bill 276 could have far-reaching implications.

To say that S.B. Fuller came from “humble beginnings” is a bit of an understatement.

Chernobyl was not a failure of technology. It was the failure of collectivism and its blind trust in the authority of the state.

Americans deserve a more transparent, accountable system where cutting-edge medicine is delivered to doorsteps acrossthe country at reasonable rates.

It’s clear that price controls are in the Cuban state’s toolbox of economic tricks and won’t be going away anytime soon.

Feldstein had taught economics at Harvard since 1969.

A little more than two years after Reagan’s Berlin Wall speech, the Berlin wall did fall unexpectedly on November 9, 1989.

Technological progress is just one aspect of making the emergence of good money possible.

Did opponents of hydroelectric power argue that hydroelectric energy is not renewable? Actually, no.

Tolstoy once said that "The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold."

Congress should repeal the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and the International Emergency Powers Act of 1977.

Before you decide China is the enemy, please visit it.

Consumers and taxpayers deserve a responsible USPS that delivers on its promises and doesn’t burn through its cash.

According to the Office of Management and Budget, the National School Lunch Program lost nearly $800 million owing to improper payments in fiscal year 2018, while the School Breakfast Program lost $300 million.

Men and women of conscience must be both vigilant and courageous in the face of these destroyers in our midst.

It makes sense that the prevalence of free public charter school options may encourage families to choose a charter school over homeschool.

Mail volumes are falling and the U.S. Postal Service is losing billions of dollars a year while accumulating large liabilities.

Portugal's Livraria Lello learned to identify different consumer types and price in accordance with relative demand schedules.

Many trends develop over decades, but few have been as rapid as concerns over social justice.

We don’t have to start supporting honest people who transparently hold values we don’t share. But we do need to stop supporting transparent people whose commitment to honesty is lacking.

Time to put these misconceptions to rest once and for all.

Never mind the naysayers. Earning a high income or achieving wealth is not out of reach.

The idea thatan omniscient computer can automate planning and remove human flaws from the process is a fantasy.

People looking to find employment and entrepreneurs alike are struggling due to crushing government environmental regulations and taxes.

Demographers predict that California will be lucky to break even in the upcoming 2020 census; it could even lose one congressional seat.

The Emirati system has helped make its citizens some of the richest people in the world while providing a land of opportunity for people from poor countries.

Populism is a rallying cry for people who are angry about the status quo, but anger rarely drives good policy.

According to Bernie Sanders, the core problems of the U.S. education system are racism and underfunding.

In the decades since the time of its publication, the context of Orwell’s magnum opus has been lost.

Americans should be concerned about the continuing low rate of labor force participation.

In 2018, over 56 million U.S. citizens got on board a plane for a trip to an international destination.

Applying labels to political opponents can be weaponized to shift the focus of a discussion away from policy and ideas.

Since the 1920s, atmospheric CO2 concentrations increased from about 305 parts per million to more to more than 400 ppm.

Paul Krugman’s arguments do not fare well against evidence in a new book written by economists Alberto Alesina,Carlo Favero, andFrancesco Giavazzi titled, "Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn’t."

It all would have been different had Thanos not clung to a flat-earth theory ofthe limits to economic growth.

Now that there are no longer legal ramifications for its cultivation, the floodgates have been opened for this new market.

As George Mason, one of the Founding Fathers of the U.S. said, “the freedom of the press is one of the bulwarks of liberty.”

Ayn Rand's "The Art of Fiction," first delivered as a series of informal lectures in 1958, carries lessons important to many young people today searching for meaning.

The oppressive reality of China's communist past goes ignored, but it's important that we remember it for what it is.

While the education system is to blame, the victims are the students.