Dollar Store Merger Attracts Anti-Trust Regulators. Really?
Government's role with dollar stores should be guarding against the value of the dollar, not larger dollar store companies
Government's role with dollar stores should be guarding against the value of the dollar, not larger dollar store companies
The Democratic Party is torn between a liberal establishment that wants more government, and an even more liberal wing that wants the same thing squared.
Blaming drugs for Michael Brown's death revives an ugly stereotype.
Black residents of Ferguson should have no trouble figuring out the message here: Some would rather they vote than protest. Some would be even happier if they did neither.
Decriminalization was the direct result of a lawsuit filed by sex workers in 1976.
Rick Perlstein's new book shows the strange '70s interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.
California's public pensions have 99 problems and temporary upgrades in pay is one.
Young Americans will defend the free market when needed.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro's SWEET Act would implement an excise tax on soda and other sweetened drinks. Supporters of the measure are difficult to find.
California just decided your silence sounds awfully guilty.
Another all-star helping of blood and bullets from Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller.
Let's stop training fighters whom we end up fighting, OK?
Where even distinguished professors wield spiked bats.
Unapproved fun or unprovoked violence? The choice should be easy.
Raising "black-on-black crime" right now is not a sincere attempt to improve the lot of African-Americans.
What the social scientists and psychologists who study conspiracy theories get wrong.
If authorities arm cops like soldiers, they may begin to think like soldiers-and see the public as the enemy.
"I doubt there has ever been a human culture, anywhere, anytime, that underestimates children's abilities more than we North Americans do today."
This is a country that calls out SWAT for charges of "barbering without a license."
Rand Paul challenges fellow Republicans to rethink their reflexive support of law enforcement.
A parallel trend to the new-business nosedive is the rise of the freelance economy.
Dystopian military toys are being pointed at our own civilians.
How the same right allows for both same-sex marriage recognition and refusing to sell gay couples wedding cakes
It's good to see Republicans put forth health care ideas, but they may need to step back and think some more about first principles.
Suitcase-size systems mimic cellphone towers and follow your every move.
Their increased social liberalism has not gone in lock step with hostility to free markets.
Colorado's new anti-pot ads exaggerate the threat that marijuana poses to teenagers.
Black Americans still live in a country with different rules, different dangers, and different rewards.
How libertarians and leftists are changing American politics, from foreign policy to Ferguson.
Are one in four Americans really too fat to fight? The figure appears to be inflated.
A California Democrat is cooking up something very un-democratic.
Michael Fassbender gets a big head, and Jeff Bridges mutters through yet another post-apocalyptic franchise attempt.
The country's first libertarian federal legislator takes his seat
Obama's presidency would be a hiatus between the military aggressiveness of George W. Bush and the military aggressiveness of Hillary Clinton.
Whither the Republic?
If government will just relax its regulatory chokehold, private drones could fill the skies with happy new possibilities.
Prosecutors try to send a peaceful Pennsylvanian to prison for crossing the Delaware River with a pistol in her purse.
Everyone, straight or gay, bleeds when thrown off a thousand pound animal.
He has the executive authority to give far more relief to unauthorized workers
There's an economic lesson to be learned on summer vacation.
Pot prohibitionists undermine their own warnings about legalization and car crashes.
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