Attacks on France's Infrastructure Highlight Modern World's Vulnerability
Enjoy your conveniences. But don’t let yourself become helpless in their absence.
Enjoy your conveniences. But don’t let yourself become helpless in their absence.
Athletes still can't swim in the Seine River after Paris wasted $1.5 billion trying to clean it for Olympic events.
Wandercraft, the French company that developed the exoskeleton suit, recently got FDA approval to use them for stroke rehab in the U.S.
The Olympics are a great sports event, but one that also often causes great harm. Here are five reforms that can fix that.
Just stop it. Let elite athletes honestly choose to use performance enhancements or not.
They should be heard, not shouted down.
At last, a chance to watch elite athletes openly taking advantage of modern science.
Like the Olympics, the World Cup is rife with human rights abuses and glorification of authoritarian host regimes. It doesn't have to be that way.
Allowing Kamila Valieva to compete evokes memories of Sha'Carri Richardson, who was suspended from competition for using marijuana.
Born in nationalism, the Olympic games are fading into a niche entertainment option.
"Upon full understanding, I do not view these posters as racist; they are political statements," said university president Mark Wrighton.
In 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, the renowned artist details his struggles with censorship.
Regarding the authoritarian country's central bank digital currency, you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them.”
What Joe Rogan and Canadian truckers tell us about free speech.
It's too late to boycott. But much can be done to prevent such a travesty from ever happening again. I propose five reforms, and explain how to force their implementation.
Only a real boycott - with athletes staying away - can have any meaningful effect.
On Monday, weightlifter Laurel Hubbard became the first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympics.
Engaging peacefully with someone who history says you should hate is no small task, but sports make it possible.
It isn't an embarrassment. It isn't heroism. It just is.
Plus: Adam Smith invented the social software for modern liberalism, the U.K. invites more skilled immigrants, and more...
The Olympics are a great sports event. But there is no reason to tolerate the massive public subsidies, forced displacement of populations, and propaganda coups for authoritarian regimes that go along with them.
More than 30 venues, some of which predate the Olympics but many of which were purpose-built at public expense, will be occupied solely by coaches, athletes, and judges.
Sha’Carri Richardson’s suspension for marijuana use highlights an arbitrary distinction that makes less sense than ever before.
Banning the American sprinter from the Olympics for using marijuana is completely ridiculous.
Why do elected officials keep pushing the same damn lies about the economic impact of publicly funded sports events?
The government suggestsnew taxes on ridesharing and electric scooters to pay for them.
On today's podcast: Mona Charen gets booed, the gun control debate reignites, public sector unions suck, and Olympic curling is surprisingly awesome.
The culture of curling rejects appeals to authority and encourages civility even in the midst of intense competition. That's a lesson for American politics.
No, but they're awesome anyway.
An autopsy for the brief limited-government era of conservatism that ended on Friday
The Olympics-and nation-states-are less important than ever to our lives and geopolitics.
The Olympics is a great athletic event. But it also often features horrible human rights abuses, enormous waste, and propaganda for dictatorships. It doesn't have to be that way.
Sports, and sport broadcasting, can never be apolitical when nations are going head-to-head on the field of play.
From stadium deals to college teams Olympics, why are taxpayers forced to pony up cash for athletic ventures that don't benefit them?
Brazil, Russia, Greece, and China were all suckers in one of the oldest scams in sports
The Olympics are an awful deal for the cities that host them.
Cities, countries, and taxpayers hosting the Olympics typically stumble away much poorer and worse off.
Hosting the Olympics is a bad deal, and organizers are having a harder time finding willing rubes.
Getting to a color-blind criminal justice system by making it harsher on whites
While Hillary Clinton tries to tax Wall Street and punish companies that move, Andrew Cuomo uses scores of millions of taxpayer dollars to advertise a failed government program that waives taxes and rewards companies that move
The politicians would probably be better off just lowering everyone's taxes, rather than picking and choosing a few already lucky Olympic athletes to reward with tax cuts.
There are 48 foreign-born athletes on Team USA in the Summer Olympics, including one that already won a medal.
Spectators can now freely express their opposition to interim president Michel Temer at the Rio Games.
1956's "Blood in the Water" match between Hungary and the Soviet Union brought war to the pool.
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