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Just 18 percent of Americans have favorable views of socialism.
Just 18 percent of Americans have favorable views of socialism.
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It's hard to get in the mood when you're sharing a bedroom with your mother-in-law.
Climate change is the excuse; radically remaking the American economy is the aim.
Sanders is an avowed democratic socialist.
Even with all the steps the NFL takes to level the playing field between teams, the Patriots keep rising to the top. It generates some envy, and resentment.
The estate tax is a form of double taxation.
It's time to admit that Venezuela's "21st century socialism" failed.
Juan Guaidó declared himself to be the interim president. President Trump and other world leaders have acknowledged him as the country's new head of state.
In international economic-freedom comparisons, Sweden often earns a higher ranking than the U.S.
People getting starry eyed about socialism should look to Venezuela for some important warning signs.
Socialist regimes use government brutality to enforce bad laws.
It's hard to get in the mood when you're sharing a bedroom with your mother-in-law.
There's no reason to celebrate collective ownership.
This problem should inspire sympathy, not scorn.
The progressive wunderkind will bring to Washington an ambitious, expensive policy agenda.
Which economic system is most effective at bringing freedom to the masses?
Many people think Sweden is socialist, but its success comes from free markets.
Will ending capitalism also end global poverty? The for-profit magazine seems to think so.
Democratic socialists say they believe in civil liberties, but their ideology is and will always be hostile to individual freedom.
The best answer to speech we don't like is: more speech.
No matter what California legislators or Elizabeth Warren think
People who fled Cuba and Venezuela warn Americans not to embrace socialism.
The socialist candidate fails to grapple with why we have the Electoral College in the first place.
Gene Epstein of Barron's and Bhaskar Sunkhara of Jacobin will debate whether "socialism is more effective than capitalism in bringing freedom to the masses."
One has generated more wealth for more people than any other system ever tried, while the other has produced a long track record of failure, misery, and death.
The next Reason-Soho Forum debate in New York features Barron's Gene Epstein vs. Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara.
CNN's Jake Tapper kept asking the socialist candidate where the money would come from. Eventually, he gave up.
Johan Norberg's new documentary shows how the Nordic nation traded stagnant socialism for a modern mixed economy
From Jim Carrey to the Chapo Trap House to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the "s" word means different things to different people. Here's how libertarians should engage.
I'll take late capitalism over late socialism any day.
A Trump loyalist, a Bernie-backed progressive, and lots of moderates were victorious. It's hard to create an overarching narrative out of that.
"The symbolic significance of changing the animal cracker box design does little to dismantle the elements of capitalism..."
Her corporate governance proposal hides the vast cost of her plans.
Bernie Sanders has millions of viewers who watch his socialist videos.
If she wants to serve in Congress, she'd better get used to being hounded by the press.
Khsama Sawant is doing everything in her power to kill a 442-unit apartment project because it would replace an iconic concert hall.
Republicans, on the other hand, tend to be pro-capitalism and anti-socialism.
The two major parties continue their sorting into democratic socialists on the left and Mercantilist nativists to the right.
Sanders' ideas would be just a joke if millions weren't paying attention.
Ben Jealous, who's running for governor of Maryland, prefers the label "venture capitalist."
The Democratic Party's socialist takeover is on hold for the moment.
Venezuela attempts to combat economic illiteracy with more economic illiteracy.
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