Newspapers deserve a great deal of credit for the expansion of freedom over the past 200 years. But the media have lost credibility.
The U.S. may not realize it, but it has the upper hand. It turns out communism doesn't work.
McCullough didn't just build on academic historians' work—he filled a gap they left.
It would signal that the transportation future involves decentralization and rapid change rather than Washington-style command-and-control.
For most of the past decade-plus, those complaining the loudest about corporate participation in politics have been Democrats.
The president's new budget plan calls on Congress to tax wealthy Americans' unrealized capital gains.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has barred men aged 18-60 from leaving the country.
Imposing a wealth tax may not even be among the enumerated powers of Congress.
Pete Buttigieg attracted some criticism for taking time off. But it's telling that no one initially realized he was gone.
Plead guilty and get "punishments ranging from probation to nine months in prison." Insist on a trial and face decades in prison.
The plan would make a liar out of Biden on a level reminiscent of George H.W. Bush's betrayal of his "read my lips" tax pledge.
Urban Democrats may be leading the charge, but Republicans, too, have enlisted.
It seems some are just waking up to the size and scope of the president's federal tax plan.
The jury is still out about whether broad parental subsidies improve outcomes for children
The U.S. has an interest in protecting its political system from manipulation by foreign enemies or their paid agents. But treason and espionage are already illegal, as is bribery.
Whatever lies the press is telling us, they are ones that at least some of us want to hear.
It turns out that there is a mechanism in capitalism for allocating scarce goods. It is called a "price."
Elon Musk, now the third-richest person in the world, was born in South Africa but eventually came to the United States via Canada.
Some parents with valuable skills will find some way to transmit those skills to their children, and some children will find ways to learn them from parents.
George Floyd's death triggered a long overdue cultural reckoning with race-related issues and inequities. It will be too bad, though, if the policing issues that set off the protests are forgotten.
Former professor John Cochrane: "I spent much of my last few years of teaching afraid that I would say something that could be misunderstood and thus be offensive to someone."
No amount of protesting is likely to reduce police brutality in the absence of structural reforms that increase accountability, competition, choice, and incentives.
Will they keep it in mind even if Joe Biden becomes president?
It may be a statement about the decline of the dollar, but the best-case explanation of the resilient stock market is that it is sending us a positive message about a rapid recovery of both public health and corporate profits.
While governments are shutting down religious services and fining pastors who defy those orders.
Whatever the latest polls say about Biden versus Trump, the Delaware Democrat almost surely has a better chance at winning the presidency than he does at undoing Milton Friedman's life work.
It's not the politicians who have the power to reopen America, or at least the parts that are now closed. It's individuals, families, businesses, and religious congregations.
The point isn't only to provide reassurance to the public, but also to guide policymakers who have to make decisions on things such as opening or closing public schools, libraries, or playgrounds.
The coronavirus is narrowing class divisions and creating an amazing outbreak of compassion.
What those donors understand is that a President Biden would nominate judges who are favorably disposed, or at least not hostile.
"I hope our country will never see the time, when either riches or the want of them will be the leading considerations in the choice of public officers," Adams wrote in 1776.
Paradoxically, in the current moment—a moment Biden helped to create by blocking Bork—being unqualified for the presidency is the best qualification a candidate can have.
One dynamic that works in favor of both Trump and Sanders is that voters discount their extreme stances, figuring that they just represent opening offers that will eventually be watered down in compromises with powerful interest groups and with establishment lawmakers.
The Sanders-Warren agenda of higher taxes, increased regulation, and more government control worries Wall Street
No number of NATO summits will re-energize an alliance against an enemy that went out of business nearly 30 years ago.
The presidential campaign seems to be Warren's priority, despite the fact that she's being paid to represent the residents of Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate.
As surely as winter follows fall, Republican election victories are followed by unconstitutional attempts to restrict political speech.
Unfortunately, rather than challenging Warren on the constitutionality of her plans, Biden is imitating them, at least when it comes to the assault on the First Amendment.
Perhaps WeWork will eventually succeed in going public and in reaching profitability. Even if it doesn't, it will have paved the way for dozens of similar companies operating with variations on its co-working model
Does economic success deserve to be punished? The Democratic Party will have to answer in the coming primaries. Joe Biden is on the correct side of it.
Give the Republican Party control of the White House and Congress, and it's only a matter of time before Democrats discover the virtues of devolving authority to state and local governments.
Maybe. But it is hard to imagine Sanders endorsing Warren until and unless Warren defeats him consistently and by a significant margin in several early states.
It's possible that the visibility of the way Biden is wrestling with his own aging could make him a more relatable and sympathetic figure. Or the Biden blunders could confirm that his moment has passed.
Warren doesn't merely want to turn back the clock to the pre-Trump era. She wants to raise taxes and regulations far beyond the levels of the late Obama-Biden administration.
There's a risk that if Warren and Sanders do get their way, the sucking sound will be of talent and capital fleeing America for other jurisdictions where they will be treated better.
One of the best ways to succeed long-term in capitalism is by treating customers well rather than ripping them off. That's something you won't hear Democrats or Republicans admit these days.
New research shows that income surveys erroneously categorized some households as extremely poor actually had "net worth in the millions" of dollars.
Bill de Blasio helped raise funds for the Sandinistas in New York and subscribed to the party's newspaper, Barricada, or Barricade.
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