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Why California Has the Highest Gasoline and Diesel Prices in America
The Low Carbon Fuel Standardis estimated to be adding 12 cents per gallon of gasoline and 8 cents for diesel.
Olympe de Gouges, Heroine of the French Revolution
Three cheers to Olympe de Gouges. She was ahead of her time, a hero in a time and place that produced so few.
Students Increasingly Are Pursuing Degrees with Better Job Prospects, Data Show
More needs to be done to provide information to students so they can make better decisions about what they choose to study.
HBO’s "Chernobyl" Is Stunning (and a Scathing Indictment of Soviet Bureaucracy)
This gripping mini-series documents what happens when you mix communism with nuclear power.
American Farmers Are the Casualties of Trump’s Trade War
The ideal resolution for all involved is the removal of trade barriers and institution of simple trade agreements with negligible exemptions.
Why the Commercialization of Pride Month Is Not a Bad Thing
Many queer people seem worried that capitalism will poison gay activism. Here's why they need not worry.
Remembering Tiananmen Square, 30 Years Later
To this day, government censorship, obfuscation, and denial have made details of the resulting massacre’s death toll difficult to verify.
100 Reasons to Homeschool Your Kids
From fostering creativity and freedom to providing impressive educational outcomes, homeschooling is an increasingly appealing option.
Will Insolvent Union Pensions Get Bailed Out by the Government?
Despite the accumulation of nearly ten years worth of evidence that the U.S. government cannot make money from its student loan business despite having a near monopoly in it, it may soon get into a whole new lending racket.
8th Circuit: Police Can't Just Arrest Someone for Swearing at Them
Swearing might be rude, but it’s not criminal.
No, My Study Didn’t Find Medicare for All Would Lower U.S. Health Costs by $2 Trillion
My study did not find that M4A would lower national health costs by $2 trillion over 10 years.
6 Facts Obama Got Wrong about Guns While Speaking in Brazil
Brazil is moving in the right direction on civil rights for gun owners.
U-Haul Rates Suggest Migration from California to Texas Is Accelerating
When relative demand is significantly different there's a huge imbalance in truck inventories, which leads to the dynamic pricing.
The Right to Repair: Shouldn't Americans Have the Right to Fix Their Own Stuff?
It's simple: If you own it, you should have the right to repair it.
Why This New Gene Therapy Drug Costs $2.1 Million
Regulations serve to hinder access to treatment by making it prohibitively expensive. Drugs costing over $2 million are the latest symptom of the overregulation disease.
How Obamacare Created Massive Addiction-Treatment Fraud
One of the problems with federal hand-out programs is that individuals take advantage of them and scam artists outright loot them.
If Profit-Sharing Leads to More Profit, There’s No Need to Mandate It
The notion that corporations should be forced into profit-sharing runs counter to a basic libertarian principle: good ideas don’t require force.
America's "Unmatched Edge" Over Other Developed Nations
Good news for the Land of the Brave: you are in a better demographic condition than your nearest rivals.
Why Soybeans May Be China's Most Powerful Weapon in Trump's Trade War
Soybeans may not seem all that useful in a war. Nonetheless they’ve become China’s most important weapon in its ever-worsening trade conflict with the U.S.
The Economics of Rain: Why Water Shortages Shouldn't Be a Problem in Most Parts of the World
Applying market principles to water production and distribution can solve most, if not all, of the world's water deficiencies.
The Price of Trading Future Obligations for Today's Benefits
We cannot reach back to the past to ask for the guilty to restore what they took, but we can decide what to do with the world that we now have.
The Loophole in a Famous Adage on Limited Government
Ritual obeisance to principles can easily be combined with inflating government's role to metastasize far beyond general welfare.
Louis Pasteur: "The Father of Microbiology" Who Pioneered Vaccine Science
Much of modern science rests on Louis Pasteur’s work.
Why Art Schools Are Disappearing
Art programs need to teach students the skills they need to live a life in the art of their time.
Why the UK Suddenly Is Suffering from a Physician Shortage
If only someone hadwarnedthem.
Trump's Trade Plan: Raise Taxes on Americans to Punish Mexico Over Immigration
Disrupting North American trade would harm American consumers and businesses across the country. And President Trump knows it.
Why We Need More Intellectual Humility and Less Moral Outrage
The trait "intellectual humility" has received a lot of attention in recent years, largely due to some pioneering research by psychologists Cameron Hopkin and Stacey McElroy-Heltzel.
Charters Have Achieved Their Original Goal: Innovation
Charter schools questioned the low expectations that schools place on poor students and challenged the now popular assumption that student-led project learning is the best practice
California Town Sees Businesses Vanish Following Minimum Wage Hike
A local newspaper has an impressively detailed account of the California town’s labor market.
How to Talk to Children about Climate Change
If in coming years we hope to curb the naive governmental interventions that bring so much ruin to the world, we need to address this belief in the efficacy of government.
Negative Interest Rates Don't Actually Boost Economic Growth
In short, negative rates and entrepreneurial endeavor have nothing to do with one another.
Walt Whitman: Poet, Individualist, Libertarian
Walt Whitman is celebrated as the poet of the common man. But that is an incomplete view of someone who said, "More precious than all worldly riches is Freedom.”
The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381: A Ripsnorter of a Tax Revolt
The principal leader of the revolt that started on May 30, 1381, was a man named Wat Tyler, regarded by many historians as England’s first revolutionary.
The History of Gun Background Checks
Whether you like them or not, background checks are here to stay for gun owners and gun purchasers-but they are not the saving grace that some make them out to be.
Rising Education Costs Stem Primarily from More Teachers and Bigger Salaries, Not Administrative Bloat
According to a new George Mason University study, schools are paying teachers (and faculty) more in real terms, and have hired more of them.
Facebook’s Fate May Hinge on Two Key Questions
Whether or not Facebook is actually biased, it may soon confront regulation or breakup.
Why Cosmetic Procedures Are Getting Cheaper
Between 1998 and 2018, the average cost of cosmetic procedures rose at a slower pace than inflation.
Today’s Schools Are Yesterday’s Streetcars: How Technology Will Transform Education
Like the streetcar and horse-and-buggy, institutional schooling will become a cultural relic, a quaint reminder of yesteryear.
What the War on Poverty and the Vietnam War Had in Common
Modern-day America is still Great Society’s America but with a way more powerful federal bureaucracy.
For Affordable Housing, Let Supply Meet Demand
Rather than subsidizing traditional affordable housing, conservatives have pushed to liberalize land use as a way to preserve options for everyone.
Why a 15% Interest Cap on Loans Would Hurt the People It’s Intended to Help
Millions of consumers nationwide depend on access to small loans. Limiting the rate of charge to 15 percent per year will not make these loans cheaper.
Adam Smith Reveals the Rub in the SAT’s "Adversity Score"
The new ECD score is based on factors such as the student's neighborhood crime levels, poverty, and schools.
Tariffs on Chinese Goods Cost American Households $831 Annually, Fed Study Finds
The trade war is costing American households nearly $1000 each on average, according to the New York Fed.
Ocasio-Cortez’s Gardening Advice Echoes the Hubris of Mao’s Great Leap Forward
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to extend identity politics to vegetables.
Is the Third-Person Effect Driving Calls to Regulate Facebook?
Much of the criticism of Facebook relates to how the company’s algorithms target users with advertising, and the “echo chambers” that show users ideologically slanted content.
Why Lessons of Liberty Are Crucial for Children
By ensuring that our children begin learning these ideas at an early age, we not only impart the protection of the law, but also a sense of civility, strength, and responsibility.
What's Really Behind the High Overdose Rate of Fentanyl
Prohibition, not fentanyl, is the real killer.
Why a Free Society Cannot Transform Wishes into Rights
Only by defending voluntary arrangements, respecting one another’s self-ownership, can we achieve positive progress.
The Childhood Quality That’s the Best Predictor of Wealth, Health, and Happiness
The question is, are you a parent who has the guts to instill the quality of self-control in the next generation?
The History, Politics, and Economics of Street Names
The apparently simple task of finding a suitable historic figure to name a street after has been made complicated by government bureaucrats.
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