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Data show Florida and New York had similar death numbers despite vastly different approaches.
"When it comes to problems happening in America, [the NBA is] the first organization saying, 'This is wrong,'" says the former professional basketball player. But then they're silent for victims of torture.
When I was young, I assumed government would lift people out of poverty. But those policies often do more harm than good.
The journalist has taken a great deal of flack—from both sides.
Private property was the solution to their failed experiment. But people keep repeating the Pilgrims' mistakes.
"Engineers are really good at making things better, but they can't make them better than the laws of physics permit."
People with money on the line try harder than pundits to be right, and they adjust quickly when they've made a mistake.
Many politicians who want to ban gas-powered vehicles appear to misunderstand the science.
Over time, betting has been a better predictor than polls, pundits, statistical models, and everything else.
The G Word, a new documentary, only occasionally covers serious issues. But it opts not to do honest reporting.
No, a big storm does not require big government.
"There's a new special interest group in town: parents."
It would be far easier to prosecute sex trafficking if voluntary sex work were legal.
Green activists have some good points. But the pursuit of a chemical-free world hurts vulnerable people the most.
Unionization helps some. But it hurts more.
Here are some reasons trust in science has been dwindling.
"It was learning by doing," says one ambulance driver. "Most things that happen here are done by volunteers, not government officials."
Wherever markets are free, new wealth gets created. Then almost everyone wins.
Educational freedom is good for everybody but unions, bureaucrats, and the education establishment.
How can it be that with so much cattle in America, we sometimes can't buy meat?
"If government is big enough to give you anything, it's big enough to take everything away from you."
I asked scholars, podcasters, and passersby how they'd change the nation's founding charter. Here's what they told me.
The Christian satire site has met the ire of fact-checkers for pushing back against left-leaning humor.
St. Paul has seen a 61 percent decrease in building permits after the city imposed rent control on future housing.
Under Biden, Trump, and Obama, government federal spending almost doubled.
Congress has radically restricted the number of pilots without doing anything to increase safety.
Corporations were just as greedy when prices fell in 2019 and early 2020.
The activists who say otherwise are wrong on the costs and wrong on the science.
Tawanda Hall's house was worth $286,000 more than her overdue tax bill. There was nothing she could do about it.
In criticizing the move, the New York Post got basic economics wrong.
Left-leaning outlets and tech giants tried to label them disinformation—until they no longer could.
Over the last 100 years, we've seen a 98 percent decrease in climate-related deaths. You can thank fossil fuels.
The former Texas congressman and presidential candidate says his goal was to get people to think about freedom.
When governments can de-bank you, you are not really free.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
Protectionist policies are why the U.S. has few physicians and high prices.
"I think the Chinese government actually takes a lot of pleasure knowing that they can actually strong-arm individuals and companies into capitulation to its own political ideology."
"Greed is constant. If it's greed, how do we explain prices falling?"
Ron DeSantis killed people because Florida didn't impose tougher rules, we're told. But it's not true.
"It's the taxpayers that are funding this."
"Any time you have government dogma saying they are science, or government bureaucrats who claim that 'this is the one and perfect truth'…we should run headlong away."
Bureaucratic foot-dragging is costing lives.
When government does things, most everything costs more and is lower quality.
It's true that some users spread lies on social media. But this can’t be solved by partisan “fact-checking."
Something to be grateful for.
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