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Local governments are now dependent on federal subsidies for even the smallest of programs and functions.

Subjecting all homeschooling families to regulation and oversight because of fears of a few is a blatant example of state intrusion.

More economic freedom leads to more prosperity.

The former prisoner is not content to have his future once again dependent on the government.

When a college education is seen as a necessity, this not only increases the cost of education and increases the number of complacent students attending college, but it also incentivizes employers to discriminate against those students who chose not to go to college.

A steeply progressive tax code, where the rich pay significantly more and the poor and middle class pay significantly less, doesn’t achieve its intended goal of raising more revenue for the purpose of financing egalitarian prosperity.

The best way to preserve liberty for posterity is to make sure that those going into the future understand its importance.

The self-proclaimed woke are fast asleep, but you don’t have to be.

We at FEE look forward to the day soon when we host a seminar in Caracas to share these principles with every Venezuelan eager to listen.

A closer look at a wide range of data shows that many common perceptions about income inequality are incorrect.

Declaration of Independence signer Robert Treat Paine called Mayhew America’s “Father of Civil and Religious Liberty.”

Increasingly, transportation spending is being used on projects such as light rail systems that carry very few riders, take up space needed for buses and cars, and consume enormous capital and operating costs.

Medicare for All would eliminate private health insurance companies, kill jobs, and reduce patients' options.

France's recently passed "Anti-Troublemakers Bill" is an assault on the French people's right to protest.

Sifting through the internet's conjecture and extracting the economic truth.

Though protectionism has recently received widespread attention, if one studies history, it becomes evident that it has been present for centuries.

Capitalism is not “a system of competition” any more than any other system.

Long live the free market, and keep Cambodia communist-free.

The now-impoverished nation offers a clear reminder of the necessity of property rights for any functioning economy.

To regain civility in human interactions and finally treat other human beings as human beings again, we would do well to get politics out of human affairs.

The price system allows us to allocate scarce resources most efficiently; bad things happen when we ignore it.

The free market is leading the way in American spaceflight, and that's its edge.

Quality of life is not limited to GDP. And neither are the benefits that access to information can bring.

All the European Union needs to do is to tell the administration "you won" and drop the retaliatory measures.

If the only feasible choice is between, on the one hand, the current degree of protectionism and, on the other hand, lowered but not eliminated protectionism, the latter option is plainly preferable.

The paper gives us a way of thinking more clearly about shifts in the Overton window.

The costs of maintaining and upgrading the stadium would be taxpayer-funded in perpetuity.

Who wouldn't want to be able to freely share important truths and experiences with the world?

I’d better start with the basics: I’m a politician.

Winton successfully organized the evacuation and foster care assignment of 669 Czech Jewish children.

His work is considered to be the root of neo-Marxism, which is a backward philosophy that is manifesting itself in backward ways.

A public option is merely a slower and more politically feasible way to achieve the destruction of private health insurance than Sen. Harris proposes.

Public schools, despite being collectively owned in theory, are in reality owned by no one.

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." -Winston Churchill

It is a system that will provide teachers with the freedom they long for.

Is it surprising that a radical politician would exaggerate something? That’s what politicians often do.

The world needs to know that ideas of liberty are alive and growing in Putin’s Russia.

Thank you capitalism—and the scientists, inventors, businessmen, and financiers who flourish in capitalism—for keeping me alive and safe this frosty morning.

A popular subreddit is proving that there are still those out there who want to hear what the other side has to say. And that fact alone offers hope in these bleak times for civil discourse.

Congress has some trade decisions to make.

The eagerness of their Western cheerleaders to point the finger elsewhere just shows how utterly those people have failed to learn any lessons whatsoever from their long flirtation with socialism.

A constitution should restrain government’s power; it's clear that North Korea's does not.

The reality is that the state’s dream of regulated soup and sandwiches is taking precedence over the bottom-up activity of neighbors who are passionate about loving their neighbors.

Academics call this “public choice,” while ordinary people realizeit’s just common sense.

Autonomous vehicles represent a way for states to save money and lives while restoring our liberties.

Neoliberalism is exactly the thing liberalism has always attempted to destroy.

The loss of a beloved family pet teaches an important lesson about the value of investing in medical treatments for humans.

Titled"In Money We Trust?," the public television documentary is based on a bookbySteve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames.

For people who value their privacy, the market already offers solutions.

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