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Free Markets

Polymarket's Alleged Fake Trades Don't Justify a Crackdown on Prediction Markets

A Wall Street Journal investigation uncovered $1.9 million in fake bets to market the platform. Punishing the prediction market industry isn't the answer.

Tosin Akintola | 6.23.2026 1:16 PM

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Bureaucracy

Can Big Data Help Save Abused Kids?

The quest to fix our messy, meddlesome foster care bureaucracies

Naomi Schaefer Riley | 1.22.2018 8:10 AM

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