Biden Still Wants Government Interfering in All Areas of Life
Inspiring support for Ukrainian freedom is undermined by the remainder of the president’s agenda.
Inspiring support for Ukrainian freedom is undermined by the remainder of the president’s agenda.
Why do so many people seem eager to fret and impose emergency measures even as COVID-19 becomes endemic and restrictions take a growing toll?
If you want to abstain from drinking or observe the Sabbath, then abstain from drinking and observe the Sabbath.
If you make the government feel too dangerous, a corrective bloc of voters will pour cold water on your face.
The lonely crusade against government hubris.
Alarmed by unilateral COVID-19 restrictions, states are imposing new limits on executive authority.
The best thing you could say about Bill de Blasio was that he was good for a laugh.
Musk's finally ready to admit that government subsidies distort markets and that government actors are terrible at capital allocation.
Today's highly successful space race "is not something for two billionaires to be directing," says Sanders, who favors the government spending taxpayer money to do the same damn thing (but more slowly).
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Get ready to pay for new nanny-state technology and for bypassing the unwelcome intervention.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s crusade is costing the state huge sums just to try to prosecute thousands of misdemeanor trespassing cases.
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Two decades after 9/11, the government's appetite for spying has only grown.
No matter what the public wants, crises typically leave the state more powerful.
As Democrats wrangle over his domestic agenda, and anti-Trump conservatives agonize over political strategy, both should pay more attention to the 27-point drop in presidential approval among self-described independents.
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Governments at the state, local, and federal levels can obstruct our pursuit of happiness and at times even jeopardize our safety.
Corporations can afford robots. Their competitors often cannot.
The hasty work behind the PPP and other relief loans shows the limits of big government.
The treasury secretary told the Chamber of Commerce that an activist government funded by higher corporate taxes would be a boon for business too.
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Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?
California Democrats and journalists are suddenly concerned about expensive government.
Americans distract themselves with freak-show headlines while political institutions escape their control.
Will Ecuador make the same mistake Venezuela already suffered through with dedollarization?
If the refusal of lawmakers to enact a president's policies is justification for unilateral executive action, then a slide toward elective monarchy is inevitable.
Let people join with the like-minded to reject officials and laws that don’t suit them and to construct systems that do.
Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force. We could use a little less of that, please.
Maxine Eichner's The Free-Market Family laments the bad public policy that makes it hard for parents to juggle work and child care, but often arrives at the wrong solutions.
The show takes plenty of creative license, but viewers are smart enough to distinguish drama from documentary.
Inspired by Germany's notorious hate-speech law, more countries seek to impose steep penalties on platforms that don't comply with their censorship whims.
Expansive and expensive government programs represent irresistible temptations for sticky-fingered crooks.
A president from a party supposedly committed to restraining the federal government is now sending enforcers to cities over local objections.
If there's one thing at which governments have excelled during this crisis, it's been collecting fines from anybody who steps out of line.
Real police reform requires backing off efforts to force people to do things they don’t want to do.
Governments overplayed their hands with mandates that they are losing the ability to enforce.
Leave people room to experiment with approaches to protecting life, liberty, and property.
Top-down, one-size-fits-few mandates are recipes for conflict.
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Competent responses to the crisis have come from people and organizations voluntarily helping each other and themselves.
People sometimes regret actions taken hastily during a crisis but find reversing them diabolically difficult.
In a time of health crisis, government has proven to be a crippling underlying condition.
Government officials’ disdain for personal liberty and economic pain drive Americans to the streets.
Government agencies and public utilities are the most preposterous examples of stasis. The coronavirus might force them, finally, to innovate and join the modern world.