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“Anything that can offer us the opportunity to take back control or some control of our privacy is always welcome,” the chess grandmaster said.
One in four young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 say they've considered suicide in the past month, according to new CDC data.
This is deeply troubling but should come as no surprise. An abundance of scientific research says suggests social separation is harmful to humans.
According to a BBC report, "Some of the world’s richest people have urged governments to raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay for measures aimed at tackling the coronavirus pandemic."
But nothing's stopping them from voluntarily giving their money to the government. So why the petition...
It didn’t take Twitter users long to realize something in the chart wasn’t quite right: the blue line and the red line were not on the same axis.
This gave the impression that counties with mask mandates in place had fewer daily COVID cases than counties without mask mandates. In reality...
The New York Times called Harris a ‘pragmatic moderate.’ But does that label fit with the actual economic policies she has endorsed?
The bottom 10 percent of Americans would be middle class (or above!) in your typical developed nation.
This month marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most important military engagements of the 20th Century.
Media outlets claimed that Sweden was “unlikely to feel economic benefit” from its no-lockdown approach, but a recent report concluded that Sweden’s economy is the least damaged in Europe.
Who will bear the costs of the latest destructive riots in Chicago’s business district? Not who you might think.
The dominant belief was that markets are the cause of environmental degradation, not the solution.
But not anymore.
Today, the ideas of free market environmentalism are being applied in a variety of creative ways. Here are a few examples.
Where do you stand on the question of mail-in voting for this November’s election?
It is a hot topic right now.
Economists define socialism in many different ways. Those definitions can be blurry, but what's clear is the evidence on what works. Here's what the evidence says.
A brilliant economist, he died when he was only 60.
But his humor, humility, and contributions to freedom still shine as examples to all.
Despite the many problems in higher education—surging tuition costs, rampant grade inflation, etc.—the status quo seemed unlikely to change anytime soon because of government subsidies ensuring a seemingly endless supply of new enrollees.
Then the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation.
Think the New Deal worked? Check out the first chart.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is begging wealthy New Yorkers to return, admitting the top one percent pays half of the state’s taxes.
"I talk to them literally every day. I say. ‘When are you coming back? I’ll buy you a drink. I’ll cook.”
Federal bailouts and Cuomo's cooking cannot solve New...
“If the government schools decide not to meet in person in the fall, I think every parent should have the right to take their tax dollars to the school of their choice,” wrote Sen. Rand Paul in an op-ed accompanying his new bill.
The coronavirus has been horrible news, but if you want to find a silver lining to that dark cloud, the virus may be putting pressure on America’s government school monopoly.
One hundred and seventy years ago, a 29-year-old Swedish singer arrived in America for her first visit. By the following spring, she earned (in today’s money) more than $10 million. Here's how she did it.
Yikes. It's not just Venezuela anymore.
A Middle Eastern nation just entered the record books with the world’s 62nd episode of hyperinflation.
Given the events of the last few months, there can be little doubt that Americans’ respect for the rule of law is dissipating, and this is happening in no small part because inconsistencies in the law are becoming obvious.
Public health officials in Denmark, Holland, and beyond say they have no intention of recommending face coverings, saying the science does not support it.
“Face masks in public places are not necessary, based on all the current evidence,” said Coen Berends, spokesman for the National...
Before there was a coin shortage, cash was under attack in the media and portrayed as a COVID-19 hazard. Now news outlets are making sure everyone knows only to think of a looming cashless society as a “conspiracy theory.”
After astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley splashed into Gulf waters on Sunday, former President Barack Obama pointed out that it was his administration that "launched the Commercial Crew program to strengthen our U.S. space program."
Does Obama deserve credit for the rebirth of the US...
Unfortunately, in their haphazard rush to score political points through government action, would-be regulators from both parties are forgetting the inevitable “knowledge problem” that plagues all central planners who try to dictate the minutiae of complicated industries from the halls of...
Parents don’t need to raise their hands to ask for permission to do what is best for their children. The "pandemic pod" movement shows that more and more parents are finally realizing that.
Joe Biden released his “racial equity plan” on Tuesday. Some of it deals with racial issues, like a major expansion of affirmative action and lots of race-related government spending.
But it also contains radical changes to America’s employment laws that have little to do with race...
As The New York Times recently reported, “a growing number of families are thinking about home schooling this fall.”
...and with good reason. You can do it, too. Here's a handy guide for getting started.
“People are not objects; broken windows and burnt cars are simply not commensurate with the violence of state-sanctioned murder,” wrote Columbia University Ph.D. R.H. Lossin.
“Plateglass windows don’t bleed... They just break, and then, at some point, they are replaced by identical sheets...
Fresh off of signing a $100 million deal with Spotify, podcaster Joe Rogan announced he and his family are moving to Texas.
The comedian is just the latest in a long list of celebrities to say goodbye to California's high taxes, stifling regulatory climate, and general dysfunction. Here...
Today, Congress will interrogate four tech competitors over Zoom (a fifth competitor) to portray them as monopolies that need to be broken up.
See if you can spot the irony…
In April, modelers inspired by the Imperial College of London made some bold predictions on what would happen to Sweden if they didn't initiate a lockdown similar to other nations.
Well, we’re nearly through July now. So how do the predictions stack up against the actual results?
Consider Brandi Hawkins, a government employee who was charged with dishing out more than $2 million in fraudulent benefits. Investigators say 200 grand in cash and many luxury items such as high-end purses were found in her home.
It’s impossible to know how many like Hawkins there are...
Federal Reserve independence is a myth. Here's why.
One of Ayn Rand's lesser-known works of fiction paints a disturbingly familiar picture.
Guess which city took in almost a billion dollars from fines in 2015...
Teaching young people to despair over the planet's impending doom is not only cruel. It's wildly inaccurate.
A recent New York Times article explains that part-time workers in America often do not receive the same perks as full-time workers, including unemployment benefits.
What the Times doesn’t mention is that government regulations often distort labor markets, which leaves many workers...
Socialism always ends up helping the well-off and well-connected.
Principled ideology does not underlie the illiberal dysfunction in contemporary institutions. The underlying reasons are far crasser.
Instead of waiting for instructions from authorities, enterprising parents and entrepreneurial teachers are joining forces and taking initiative.
But what the heck is a pandemic pod?
COVID-19 has been far from the deadliest virus in modern history, but it has been the most divisive.
The only thing the left and right seem to agree on is the data we have on the virus are not reliable.
Elon Musk dropped an economic truth bomb on Joe Rogan’s podcast a couple of months ago.
Obvious? You’d think so. But, as Musk pointed out, our economic policies throughout the COVID-19 pandemic have ignored that simple truth.
Congress is debating another round of stimulus. The Republicans want just under $1 trillion, and the Democrats are calling for $3 trillion (!). But here’s a proposal for another kind of stimulus that would do much more good and cost much, much less.
Fortunately for everyone, distilleries didn’t let the FDA’s red tape stop them from meeting the public’s need for hand sanitizer.
Hate crime laws really don’t protect anyone and wouldn’t have saved Ahmed Arbery’s life.
True justice is built upon clear-cut, objective criteria—all the more reason why the subjectivism of hate crime laws won’t protect minorities.
First up, shops closed across the board to combat the spread of COVID-19. Then, the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Health, and the US Centers for Disease Control all chimed in.
Now nickels and dimes are being treated as if they're radioactive.
This country lasted over 300 years and covered more territory than all of Scandinavia.
This dignified Brit did not pull any punches with his pen when calling out socialism.
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