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South Africa’s only flirtation with liberty was a brief stint in the 1990s, at the height of the optimism around the end of the socialist Apartheid regime. Now, its Parliament is at an advanced stage of adopting a constitutional amendment that would allow the government to expropriate private...

In both urban slums and rural villages, poorer parents are abandoning public schools en masse and sending their children to low-cost private schools, typically created by educational entrepreneurs.

Those suggesting capitalism is in its final throes assume two things: 1) Economic inequality equals injustice; 2) The existence of economic inequality means that capitalism must be replaced.

Neither proposition is true.

In July, in an effort to combat global warming, Berkeley, California, became the first city in the United States to prohibit natural gas in new buildings, including residential homes.

In November, voters in one state will weigh-in on a ballot measure that would prohibit grocery stores from using more than two self-checkout machines. This is little different than the 19th century Luddites who railed against the “job-killing” automatic loom that cut labor costs in half.

In a recent "60 Minutes" interview, Sen. Bernie Sanders doubled down on his comments praising Fidel Castro's achievements in communist Cuba. Unbeknownst to Sanders, Cuba actually failed miserably in the areas he praised.

Four out of five Gen Zers name money as the top item in a list of things that “freak” them out. Considering that these fears play an important role in how young adults are choosing to navigate their finances, it’s only natural that Gen Zers are taking a more judicious approach to their money.

Students have developed an app dubbed "Uber for Cows" (Movr) which helps connect truck drivers with farmers in remote areas who want to get their cattle to market.

Hello Tractor App ("Uber for Tractors") allows farmers to get ahold of unused tractors in their locality.

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Despite what you may have heard, there is ample evidence that America is more prosperous than ever and US workers are experiencing the benefits. The latest evidence comes from a recent report from George Mason University’s Mercatus Center.

The Social Security Administration proudly boasts that Ida May Fuller was the first American to receive benefits from this program. During Ms. Fuller’s working lifetime, she contributed a total of $24.75 into the program. She would go on to live another 35 years and collected $22,888.92. That’s...

“The practice, from week to week, of openly robbing me of all my earnings, kept the nature and character of slavery constantly before me. I could be robbed by indirection, but this was too open and barefaced to be endured. I could see no reason why I should, at the end of each week, pour the...

When it comes to Gen Z workers, a recent Forbes survey showed that the youngest members of the workforce enter the scene with a different mindset than their older colleagues.

The regime’s mistakes appear to have damaged its reputation for competence. Observers are comparing the fallout to the impact of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union, when Moscow lied to its own citizens and foreign nations with equal enthusiasm.

Under the Senator's plan, the FTC’s significant power would be placed in one individual under the executive’s thumb who would be given the authority to impose steep civil penalties on companies for behavior they did not even know was illegal. While supporters of Hawley's plan may applaud such an...

In addition to significantly hampering economic freedom and potentially creating macroeconomic stability, the election of Sanders, a left-wing populist, may significantly reduce entrepreneurship in the US.

Not only do unions deny others’ freedom of association, they straightjacket their own members’ most essential guarantee of freedom of association and have made it all but impossible to undo the abuse.

The mayhem of that terrible night, depicted so vividly in HBO's Watchmen, was nearly finished when Dr. Andrew Jackson, a 40 year-old physician, emerged from his smoldering home with hands in the air. “That’s Dr. Jackson! Don’t shoot him!” shouted one of several young whites who were still...

A 16-year-old junior in Eastern Pennsylvania is suing his school district, alleging that a teacher, in accordance with district policy, required him to stand for the pledge. When the student refused, he was disciplined. Repeatedly. All of this is patently unconstitutional, and any educator—let...

Long before spiritual guru Marianne Williamson ran for president, Victoria Woodhull, presidential nominee of the Equal Rights Party, conducted seances, read palms, and claimed to be an active medium through which dead people spoke.

Whatever you think of spiritualism, her most absurd...

What did the British army gain in exchange for all of these lost and ruined lives? About six miles of territory.

When Mikaila Ulmer was four years old, she received an old, tattered cookbook from her grandmother that contained a recipe for flaxseed lemonade. By the time she was 10, she had turned the recipe into an $11-million deal with Whole Foods. Here's how she did it.

By reducing the costs of patents, African innovators will be free to reap the rewards of their innovations without being crippled by burdensome governmental regulation.

LA's goal was to cut non-driver fatalities by 20 percent by 2015 and 50 percent by 2020. Instead, pedestrian traffic fatalities are surging, and the city's initiative to remove automobile lanes to make more room for bus and bike lanes is only making things worse.

Could a tendency toward irony and influence from "Parks and Rec" be changing Gen Z's attitude toward Valentine's Day? Some data may back that up.