Season 2, Episode 1 Free Markets
Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs project brings a bit of free market flair to the health care industry, but the lack of meaningful price signals is only part of the problem.
In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen chronicles the left-wing history of free trade.
A front-line report from the Kursk offensive reveals that in the battle for hearts and minds, Ukraine’s resolve outpaces Russia’s crumbling morale, signaling an inevitable conclusion.
The city of Seaside, California, ordered a man to cover the boat parked in his driveway. He offered a lesson in malicious compliance.
Housing costs, job availability, energy prices, and technological advancement all hinge on a web of red tape that is leaving Americans poorer and less free.
The host of Why We Can't Have Nice Things returns to discuss the podcast's second season, which focuses on how government makes Americans poorer and sicker.
Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and J.D. Vance agree that U.S. Steel needs to be controlled from Washington. They are all wrong.
This latest stunt is nothing more than an attempted distraction from the country's deepening political and economic crises.
Whether her reversal is sincere or politically expedient, Harris is right not to try changing people's driving habits by force.
The ruling concludes that the government failed to show an Illinois ban is "consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation."
According to a new lawsuit, NYPD officers have been illegally accessing sealed juvenile arrest records.
Rebekah Massie criticized a proposed pay raise for a city attorney. When she refused to stop, citing her First Amendment rights, the mayor had her arrested.
Trump promised to hire "only the best people," yet his presidential plans were repeatedly thwarted by his staff. Will a second term be different?
Depriving yourself of a modern luxury like air conditioning makes even less sense than banning plastic straws.
Plus: Trump hush money case, assisted suicide prosecution, Tucker Carlson's Holocaust-denialist historian, and more...
Last week’s sedition conviction is yet another step backward for press freedom.
Officials pursue an anti-liberty agenda through unofficial pressure and foreign regulators.
Some politicians and environmentalists want to tear down Snake River dams in Washington state, even though they generate tons of electricity.
It remains unclear whether either would do anything about that as president.
Plus: A listener asks the editors, when it is right to revolt to stop repeated miscarriages of justice?
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D–N.Y.) claims that airlines are engaging in discrimination and enabling price gouging by canceling flights to the Middle East without government permission.
The arrest warrant against Edmundo González, the recognized winner of the contested Venezuelan election, only fuels the opposition's resolve against the regime.
Plus: The feds come for RealPage, a YIMBY caucus comes to Congress, and tiny Rhode Island enacts a big slate of housing reforms.
Priscilla Villarreal, known as "Lagordiloca," is suing law enforcement for violating her First Amendment rights. She is appealing to the Supreme Court.
Plus: J.D. Vance shouldn't be near podcasts, Trump takes on marijuana laws, and more...
Will the liars and hacks who covered up Biden's cognitive decline face any consequences?
At least he draws the right conclusion from this imaginary hazard, acknowledging the dangers created by prohibition.
Autonomous vehicle developer Waymo is at the center of a fight between labor unions and venture capital that's dividing the populist right.
The Second Amendment doesn’t protect guns; it protects the human right to self-defense.
Don't attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
The Ohio senator doesn't want to limit government power. He wants to use it against his political enemies.
Trump says the legislature should ban public pot smoking but that we shouldn't waste money arresting adults for possession.
If you want to drink alcohol in California after 2 a.m., it helps to be the billionaire owner of the L.A. Clippers.
Matthew Farwell allegedly murdered a 23-year-old woman who was pregnant with his child. Their relationship is said to have began when she was 15. He was 27.
Season 2 Podcasts
A new season brings six new stories about how the government is making Americans poorer and sicker.
The Federal Aviation Administration has called an unnecessary halt on launches following the Falcon 9 mishap on August 28.
Plus: Kamala Harris' big night, Japan ignores climate critics, Rio cops lose their minds, and more...
Gas prices in California are exceptionally high because of the state's high taxes and anti-oil regulations, not because gas station owners there are greedier.
Since when do government officials get to decide that a market is “oversaturated”?
Freedom "requires you to curtail freedom of speech and freedom of the press," the book declares.
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