Colleen Hroncich Remote pandemic schooling wasn’t working for her second-grade daughter, so Rebecca Simmons decided it was a good time to start homeschooling. “I was supplementing her work anyway,” she…

Most modern Americans cannot conceive of states seceding from the US, but in 1860, the majority of the people believed secession was both legal and moral and saw the Constitution…

Great Britain‘s Labour government, since coming into power last year, has taken a number of measures that already are resulting in lowering the nation’s standard of living.

Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Much debate exists about whether the US tax and transfer system unfairly benefits wealthy people at the expense of ordinary Americans. For example, Democratic members…

Michael F. Cannon A congressional staffer recently asked about the performance of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA). Since 1992, PDUFA has…

The great French economist Frederic Bastiat wrote that we should not look just at the visible results of government economic intervention, but also the good things that the intervention keeps…

In this week‘s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon reviews Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction by Jim Downs, who exposes the high death…

Should we audit the US gold hoard? First, let’s take a look at what the official numbers say about how big the US gold reserve is, where it is located,…

Bob argues that the only way to cripple Mexican drug cartels is through U.S. drug legalization, explaining how prohibition fuels violence and corruption while debunking common libertarian arguments about the…

Property taxes, by its critics, have correctly been described as unjust, regressive, and inefficient, in addition to having a disproportionate effect on lower-income homeowners who potentially have more of a…