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How Climate Change Activism Harms Third World Countries
The world can't avert climate catastrophe without climate injustice.
Trump Lied His Way to the Truth on Foreign Techies
Foreign STEM workers don't threaten American jobs or wages or apple pie
The Earned Income Tax Credit: Small Benefits, Large Costs
No reason to chose between two bad options
Let Us Now Praise Alan Grayson For Standing Against Cronyism
Florida representative the only House Dem to vote against reauthorizing Export-Import Bank.
Rand Paul's Filibuster Over the Debt Deal Will Be More Interesting Than the #GOPDebate
It won't stop a terrible budget deal, but it will send a message about spending that will eventually be heeded.
GOP Debate: Somewhere in That Blob of Candidates Beats a Libertarian Heart
Nobody went full libertarian, but belief in limited government started to show around the edges.
"Yes Yes Yes": Hillary Clinton on Breaking Up Banks
And yet, she voted to bail them out and Dodd-Frank is only making big banks bigger. So why the Molly Bloom impersonation?
Rand Paul Vows Filibuster of Debt Limit Bill
Senator holds back his desire to use profanity in describing the super-spendy bill.
Bernie Sanders is a Socialist Because the Dodgers Left Brooklyn
Losing the Dodgers was first "painful lesson about big business," but government contributed to "Dem Bums" move to LA.
House Pushes Forward to Reauthorize Export-Import Bank, Crown Jewel of Crony Capitalism
If this is how a Republican-led Congress acts, who do they think they're kidding when they talk about limited government?
Mets vs. Royals is the World Series of Misers and Moochers
Owners who won't invest in their teams but take hundreds of millions in public financing face-off in the Fall Classic.
LEGO Won't Provide Bricks for Ai Weiwei's "Political Works," But His Fans Will
Everything is not awesome when it comes to subversive reappropriation of colored plastic bricks to protest authoritarianism.
Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey on entrepreneurship, snobbery, and the minimum wage
When Governments Offer Empty Health Care Promises, Black Markets Deliver the Goods
From the Third World to the First World, officials can't exempt medicine from the laws of economics.
"Reagan Allowed Himself to Imagine a World Without The Soviet Union"
Novelist Thomas Mallon on the Cold War, gay Republicans, Facebook vs. the novel, & why "95% of writers he knows are liberal Democrats."
Federal Reserve Blocks 'Marijuana Bank' in Colorado
Many legitimate marijuana businesses are still locked out of the financial system.
The 'Climate Justice' Fantasy
The rough road to adopting a universal climate treaty at Paris in December
Nick Gillespie Talks Hillary, Trump, Libertarianism w Hot Air's Jazz Shaw & OTB's Doug Mataconis
...and much, much more on the Politinerds podcast.
Are You Better Off Now Than You Were 20, 30, 40 Years Ago?
Declinists who focus on inequality and stagnant wages miss increased freedom and opportunities.
At SCOTUS, Today's Dissent Can Become Tomorrow's Majority Opinion
Examining the role of dissenting opinions in U.S. legal history.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Should Stop Hurting the Poor
Why overregulation of payday lenders is a bad idea
Nick Gillespie Talks Smack About Joe Biden & Paul Ryan…
On HuffPost Live, no holds are barred and no quarter is given. And I really let it rip regarding how lucky we are Biden isn't running.
Should Women Be Allowed to Charge What the Market Will Bear for Their Eggs?
Yes. Next question.
Yelp Suing South Park: File Under "When a Story is Too Good To Be True…
...it usually isn't. An excellent hoax follows an excellent episode of an excellent series.
[Updated with Ryan's Statement!] Paul Ryan's Conditions to Serve as Speaker Should Disqualify Him
Irony alert: GOP running aground as it reaches its most zenith of historic power.
On Soundcloud: How Should Libertarians Think About Intellectual Property?
Listen now as thinkers from Cato, Mercatus, FreedomWorks, and R Street talk about copyright, patents, history, and cronyism.
Capitalism Is Good and Bernienomics Doesn't Work
Also, who will be the last American to die for the mistake of staying in Afghanistan?
How Should Libertarians Think About Intellectual Property?
Brink Lindsey, Sasha Moss, Wayne Brough, Eli Dourado, and Nick Gillespie talk patents and copyrights in the digital age.
Yes, Rand Paul, Running for President Is a Drag. So Have Some Fun, Already!
5 ways that the libertarianish candidate can turn a depressing duty into a liberating opportunity
The Bogus Concerns Behind Hillary Clinton's TPP Switcheroo
She'll even sell out her husband's trade legacy to get elected.
Is America the New Weimar Republic? Yeah, no.
Extremist politics, fashion choices galore: Life really is a cabaret, old chum. Or just more prosperous, fun, and free.
Irwin Schiff, R.I.P.
Man who argued there is no legal obligation to pay income tax dies of cancer shackled to prison hospital bed at age 87.
Citigroup Executive Reviews Book on the Federal Reserve
An executive whose bank faltered while he was highly compensated reviews a book on the Fed for the New York Times.
SCOTUS Asked to Decide Whether Special-Interest 'Economic Favoritism' Counts as Legitimate Government Interest
Connecticut teeth-whitening monopoly lands at Supreme Court.
What Global Food Crisis?: Ronald Bailey's Wall Street Journal Review of The Reproach of Hunger
Neo-Malthusians still get it wrong: Markets and science will feed 9 billion if not blocked.
Sanders and Clinton Vs. Capitalism
Neither seem to realize how much better life is, thanks to markets.
Just How Bad Would Joe Biden Be as President? Really F*cking Bad.
The vice-president is an unrepentant drug warrior and has promised "no changes" to old-age entitlements that screw the young.
Watch Matt Welch Defend Capitalism Tomorrow Morning on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry
That's 10 a.m. ET for a full two hours of democratic socialism, Walmart, school-funding, and so on
Documenting Humanity's Great Escape from Abject Poverty: Angus Deaton
The Economics Nobel Laureate worries that crony capitalism will kill off economic growth
Rand Paul's Fumbling on Gay Discrimination Question Was Eminently Avoidable
The right answer needs the right argument to avoid callousness.
Missouri Law Puts a Cap on Municipal Piracy
The home of a speed trap and a jail-for-hire tries to adjust.
Why Is Hillary Throwing Obama's Core Legacy on Free Trade Under the Bus?
She was for the TPP before she was against it
