How Britain's Protectionist Trade Policies Created Valley Forge
The site of George Washington's famed winter encampment might not have existed without colonial-era iron regulations.
The site of George Washington's famed winter encampment might not have existed without colonial-era iron regulations.
“Between the cost of labor and the inputs that goes in, it’s more cost-effective for farmers” to plow over ripe tomatoes, said one expert.
Briefs urging the Supreme Court to stay injunctions against the order challenge "the conventional wisdom" about the meaning of an 1898 decision interpreting the 14th Amendment.
Plus: A listener asks which domestic policy changes could realistically boost U.S. manufacturing without raising costs for consumers.
Elon Musk promised $2 trillion in cuts but delivered only a tiny portion of that total. We asked seven policy experts to explain what he got wrong.
Sitting on the sidelines let America play neutral mediator and talk down both sides.
A new bill would ban sharing visual content that might "arouse" or "titillate."
The late justice was appointed by a Republican but quickly established himself as a judicial liberal.
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America stands alone in valuing and protecting free speech.
Biden's pardons for friends and Trump's blanket pardons for January 6 participants set terrible precedents.
Some hospitals are even reporting women for testing positive for drugs that were given to them during labor.
Some players like the game to mimic the real world. Others like to play as Gandhi but nuke their enemies into oblivion.
Three libertarians—Dave Smith, J.D. Tuccille, and Liz Wolfe—revisit their reluctant votes for Trump, weighing the promises, chaos, and consequences of his second term so far.
The Department of Justice told the Supreme Court there were "policy tradeoffs that an officer makes" in determining if he should "take one more extra precaution" to make sure he's at the right house.
Residents of the United Kingdom will get lower tariffs, while Americans are stuck paying higher ones.
The survey estimates that 7.5 percent of America adults use illegally produced fentanyl each year, 25 times the rate indicated by a government-sponsored survey.
Ozturk's continued detention "potentially chills the speech of the millions and millions of people in this country who are not citizens," said U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III.
Mahendra Patel was charged with battery, assault, and attempted kidnapping. He was granted bond.
Even after the Biden administration realized the most alarming claims were bunk, it didn't publicize the evidence it had.
Lawmakers passed the largest spending plan in state history, pushing costs higher without delivering results.
The right number of dolls? As many as your kid wants.
Co-founder of AQR Capital Management, Cliff Asness, discusses the decline of market efficiency, the dangers of populist economics, and his libertarian outlook on capitalism.
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Environmental Protection Agency
The federal agency has a history of overreaching its authority and threatening liberty.
Even in a fictitious postapocalyptic world, the government can't be trusted to tell the truth.
The animated Invincible series wrestles with the ethics of killing for the greater good.
The bill "raises the risk of malware," warns one tech expert.
Martin is a bully and a menace to free speech. Unfortunately for him, his own free speech caught up with him.
The results were completely foreseeable, after the president imposed 25 percent tariffs on all imported automobiles and parts.
Federal Trade Commissioner Mark Meador wants conservatives to sacrifice Americans’ economic well-being to break up big businesses.
We don't need more of the same. We need evidence of a serious turnaround.
Microschools are giving educators the freedom to innovate. Regulators need to get out of the way.
Progressives used to believe in building more stuff. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson want to do that again.
Despite persistent violence in schools, very few states designate schools as "persistently dangerous."
The program is beyond the proper scope of the federal government.
Protections apply even when the animal is on your property and getting closer.
America is not a department store. And no successful department store would be following Trump's antitrade strategy.
Democrats did the right thing, got attacked for it, then caved.
In a Monday legal filing, lawyers for the Trump administration argue that an effort by red states to ban mail-order abortion drugs lacks standing.
The Harvard psychologist discusses recent gains for free speech at Harvard, growing political and ideological threats to academic freedom, and the importance of shared knowledge in sustaining truth and progress.
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