A well-publicized study predicts that even a limited nuclear war would plunge much of the earth into darkness and freezing, threatening the very survival of mankind. Many are taking the prediction as fact, but uncertainties abound.
President Reagan is trying to cut Amtrak's billions in subsidies, but the great train bureaucracy is fighting back-with a lot of flimflam.
If you believed candidate Ronald Reagan in 1980, you should have seen federal spending of $760 billion last year. Instead, it was $842 billion. Any guesses about 1988 spending?
Critics at home say this black "homeland" is a traitor to the anti-apartheid cause. Critics abroad say its hopes for prosperity are a pipedream. An investigative reporter goes to Ciskei to find out what's really happening.
The road from utility regulation to a free market is strewn with consumerist objections. A futuristic scenario shows a way through.
Make way, Hollywood! It's time to hand out awards for the real entertainment of 1984-the race for the Oval Office
A group of brash young representatives calls itself the "Conservative Opportunity Society" and speaks glowingly of free enterprise. Is it genuine, or another case of political opportunism?
Sidney Wolfe's Health Research Group has taken on health issues from food coloring to cold remedies. But the diagnosis is often hasty and the prescription has serious side effects.
Spain's socialist revolutionaries are now politicians, and that means even freedom can prosper here and there.
Even taxis are controlled by Chicago's corrupt political machine. Now pressure is building to dismantle the city-supported cab monopoly.
The American public is largely uninformed about guns and crime, because the American media largely ignore the facts and figures.
Once a peaceful land, Cambodia has suffered a decade of unspeakable horrors. Now, a strange and uneasy alliance of Communists, liberal democrats, and monarch loyalists is struggling to free the Khmer people from their Soviet-backed Vietnamese occupiers.
The antitrust laws don't promote competition-they stifle it. But then, consider their source.
Medicare is dying, and if the politicians would just admit it, we could get on with building a fairer alternative.
Freedom for the individual is often thought to mean chaos for society, but exciting new research shows how and why self-interest is served by cooperation.
Their business is rockets. Their dream is space. Their bane is NASA.
For environmentalists, it's an ecological disaster. For taxpayers, it's a stupendous boondoggle. But thanks to a handful of special interests, a federal water project in North Dakota defies liquidation.
It took a dose of the private sector to revive an ailing government hospital in Canada.
Why the free market can provide for the long term, while the government can barely plan past next Thursday.
Texans talk a good line on free enterprise, but they're falling all over themselves to subsidize everything from picante sauce to posh hotels.
A noted sociologist shows that there is a way to win the failed War on Poverty-scrap the entire federal welfare system. An excerpt from Losing Ground.
In an excerpt from his new book, the author of Wealth and Poverty tells how Cuban immigrants have sparked an entrepreneurial boom in Miami.
The Democratic and Republican conventions played like a farce, but the actors on the political stage are deadly serious.
A noted supply-sider diagnoses the problems with Reaganomics and writes a prescription for a second Reagan term.
Do you want the bloated deficit controlled? Look to the members of Congress perched on Capitol Hill, says the Grace Commission report.
Workers who "commute" to work by computer would be made outlaws if the forces opposing home work have their way.
What do scientists really know about saccharin? And what does it mean for the regulators?
An industrial policy will mean wise regulation by independent experts? History tells otherwise.
The history of political thought is a history of one euphemism after another to disguise the naked power of the state.
Poorly armed but highly courageous, Afghanistan's "holy warriors" have refused to bow before the awesome military might of the Soviet Union.
Can we afford to let in more immigrants? Can we afford not to?
The earnings gap between men and women can't be pinned on discrimination.
Advocates of an industrial policy are curiously like primitive Melanesians, who thought that the magic of ritual could bring them wealth.
Chicago entrepreneurs are showing that mass transit doesn't have to be a government monopoly.
Kidney machines have become money machines under the government's kidney program-and taxpayers are not the only victims.
Members of Congress couldn't wreak as much havoc if we limited them to one term.
In five years as Britain's prime minister, she's broken with forty years of British politics.
It's a car! It's a plane! It's both! And inventor Moult Taylor won't give up his vision.
American troops in Europe were never meant to be a part of NATO-but they've been there for 33 years.
An inside look at Nicaragua's anti-Marxist rebels-who they are and why they are fighting.
Conservatives and liberals prescribe government ministrations for the ailing American family. But a thorough checkup yields a different diagnosis and a laissez-faire prescription.
America's first oil crisis occurred long before the 1970s-and it was solved without the government stepping in.
Reflections on investing
How to figure out financial newsletters
Keeping an eye on Washington can mean money in your pockets.
There's a lot of gold and silver dealers in them there hills-but some of them play dirty.
The ins and outs of tax shelters
