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State-funded media has been a hallmark of the Soviet Union and of all other oppressive, totalitarian regimes in history.

President Trump's so-called “One Big, Beautiful Bill” is more of the same: big and bloated. It adds billions to the...

We know what happened on November 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, but there is a lot about that...

We know what happened on November 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, but there is a lot about that...

William Nordhaus coined the term “Political Business Cycle” a half-century ago. The idea was that government authorities, particularly the central...

The Trump White House has enacted tariffs in the belief that other countries are “cheating” by enacting tariffs against US...

The transatlantic slave trade from Africa is a well-known chapter in the history of slavery in the Western Hemisphere, but...

Ours in an age when people panic, sometimes for good reasons but often for bad. Governments benefit from panicked citizenry,...

Mainstream economists define inflation as the increase in an imaginary “price level” that is relatively neutral in its effects. Austrian...

Amtrak is always on the verge of reviving intercity rail traffic in the US, or at least that is what...