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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.
The state "wants to limit how many agencies they have to regulate," says Ursula Newell-Davis.
Children are too important to be entrusted to unions or government monopolies.
We can't afford to keep funding defense contractors' cost overruns.
The idea that massive government spending, hate speech laws, and gun control will improve America—when they failed horribly elsewhere—is a dangerous myth.
"The quality of life we have even during COVID is so much higher than anything humanity experienced, and it's only going to get better."
Denmark recently lifted all COVID mandates. The U.S. should do the same.
"Do you really want to live in a country where government bureaucrats, based on whim and personal preference, can censor whatever they don't like?"
"If you would have told me when I was 12 years old, I would run this organization, I would have said you were crazy."
Corporate welfare hurts the people who actually need help.
The ideas put forward by Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi are fundamentally "anti-black."
If you support "my body, my choice," you cannot support vaccine mandates.
"Government should be very small. It should just regulate the minimum."
Big tech platforms should encourage debate, not forbid it.
"The Cuban people are not asking for military intervention."
On Monday, weightlifter Laurel Hubbard became the first openly transgender woman to compete at the Olympics.
Much of what government does is tax people to try to fix problems that government caused.
"Claiming that kind of victimhood gives them a sense of belonging, of togetherness."
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