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
Why are Americans gripped by fear over the least trace of chemicals suspected of causing cancer? An excerpt from The Apocalyptics: Politics, Science, and the Big Cancer Lie.*
We didn't really have an international debt crisis before, but Congress is doing its best to create one.
How can the federal budget be cut? Let us count the ways, says the Grace Commission.
Should the legal drinking age be 18 or 21? The debate goes on, but it ignores the fundamental issue.
How does a bureaucracy save itself from extinction? The Department of Education has a lesson plan.
"Out with the Cubans! Out with the Russians! Death to Marxism! Vive the independence of Angola!" A first-hand report on Angola's anti-Soviet guerrilla movement.
There's always been an abundance of resources. Is the party over?
A letter to a bureaucrat that we all might have wanted to write, one time or another.
Our elected representatives keep throwing monkey wrenches into America's engine of prosperity. An eminent economist proposes a radical fix.
If self-actualization is right for individuals, what is right for the state? An excerpt from a new book by the author of The Psychology of Self-Esteem
Technology could be exploited to end the tragedy of war in the Middle East. A defense expert offers a radical new strategy for defending Israel's borders.
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