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Politicians prefer not to talk about the billion and a half dollars in taxes Amazon paid last year.

"The Fountainhead"is an entire novel about an artist who refuses to sell out.

Popular thinking aside, there is nothing intrinsically beneficial to Floridians about exporting things like orange juice to other Americans.

The College Board, according to The Wall Street Journal, will now assign an “adversity score” to SAT test takers, “calculated using 15 factors including the crime rate and poverty levels from the student’s high school and neighborhood.”

We should thank Joe Biden—a serious discussion on occupational licensing is long overdue.

The FDA recently committed to deregulating the frozen cherry pie market.

Taxpayers will be on the hook for the numerous imprudent decisions by both colleges and students.

Argentina is suffering from decades of bad policy.

Ex-cons, teens, and African-Americans are among the groups most harmed by minimum wage laws.

Funding local activities from the federal level creates unneeded bureaucratic costs, which are a loss to the overall economy.

No matter how just a cause might appear, taking human lives in the pursuit of power almost always turns people into monsters.

Amazon has designed a system that creates a pathway into one of the world’s most valuable companies.

Individuals should not have to engage in lengthy legal battles to avoid excessive fines and enjoy the liberty to peacefully do as they wish on their own property.

Decriminalization limits the power of government over our lives, defends the Constitution, and chops public spending in one fell swoop.

Federal Reserve economic data show significant growth in real wages since the mid-1990s.

The trade war that Trump began in January 2018 is back on, which will mean more economic pain for companies and consumers in both the U.S. and China.

India should reverse it's ban on e-cigarettes because theyare substantially safer than regular cigarettes and capable of preventing millions of avoidable deaths if smokers switch to them.

Net interest on the national debt has become one of the fastest growing segments of federal spending.

Any meaningful and lasting transformation in American education must come from the private sector.

People are in extreme poverty because they do not have the institutional base necessary to create wealth for themselves and their communities.

Barriers are creating more ways for established businesses to shut out startups from competing.

If Donald Trump wishes to ultimately reduce tariffs among trading partners, the better strategy is to unilaterally lower U.S. tariffs.

Those who want drone delivery banned succumb to the same fear that caused refusal to upgrade from horse and carriages to Model T’s because of the dangers of driving.

Idaho just initiated a regulatory reset, where the government eliminates all regulations and then brings back the ones it decides it wants.

If having the highest taxes were a competition, Chicago would be a clear winner.

Albert Pujols’s attitude is admirable. He defended a stranger’s property rights.

Is historical ignorance contributing to a renewed interest in socialism?

These five charts demonstrate the global progress in the area of maternal health over the last few decades.

The earliest ancestor to our system of government-mandated schooling comes from 16th-century Germany.

Uber loudly signals an investor class willing to look far into the future.

If we want to be free, we don’t need to go on an apology tour for capitalism.

You can end up dead in Russia if you step on the wrong person’s toes.

If you're a Game of Thrones die-hard, you might be upset by this bumbling blunder. But, there is a valuable teaching moment in this silly accident.

Industrialization changed everything. Between 1800 and 1900, GDP per person per day doubled.

The student loan quagmire is chiefly the product of federal policy.

Trump can’t have it both ways. Either the economy is awesome-blossom, or it needs the Fed to intervene.

Economic conditions in West Germany and East Germany diverged dramatically because one had economic freedom and one suffered from socialism.

McLean designed stackable shipping containers and offered transport prices that were 25 percent lower than the competition.

We have every reason to want social media platforms to avoid making discretionary, content-based decisions about which users and messages to host.

How long will the American public keep buying this story and allowing the Federal Reserve to loot them with one hand and claim to save them with the other?

The Executive Provisional Act is a set of rules designed to boost free enterprise and impose limits to government intervention over small businesses.

President Trump shouldn't throw away his trump card: the strong US economy.

If our leaders are really interested in helping their constituents, they should recruitment the world’s millionaires and billionaires instead of manufacturing jobs.

Are dads shirking their duty by committing less time to child care or is there something else at play?

Illegal refugees are not subject to minimum wage requirements in Trinidad and Tobago, and that’s a good thing.

This was the first time that any effort had been made to decriminalize psilocybin since it was given its “Schedule I” classification in 1968.

The Italian economic crisis is just the tip of the iceberg for the EU.

There’s a downside to self-development: itcan be very easy to start developing contempt for the people you’re passing.

A win-win conservation policy is under attack by the IRS and the DOJ.

Minimum wage laws reduce the employment prospects of low-skilled workers.