Michael F. Cannon Back in November, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported that the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was looking a lot more expensive than the agency or the law’s…

Nicholas Anthony What makes an activity “suspicious”? Maybe you picture someone hiding their face in a trench coat as they pace outside of a bank. Or, maybe you picture someone…

President Donald Trump said the way Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez answered questions at the Munich Security Conference ‘was not a good look for the United States.’  The Democrat lawmaker from New…

From the Jacksonians to the Marxists, political theorists have understood that there is something unique about “small industry” between big business and propertyless workers.

Bob Murphy talks with Keith Smith, MD, about an alternative to the cartel of big hospitals and insurers.

Jeffrey Miron Twenty-two states are scheduled to increase their minimum wage in 2026. Even though, overall, existing evidence suggests that minimum wage laws reduce employment, with the largest effects observed…

Jeffrey Miron President Donald Trump has claimed his tariffs will raise enough revenue to allow for income tax cuts. Recent research, however, finds that even at optimal tariff rates, these…

Why does such a strong love of freedom appear both among towering intellects and among those of far more modest cognitive means?

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a longtime civil rights leader, two-time Democratic presidential candidate and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, died Tuesday morning at the age of 84, his family…

The Civil Rights Act, first passed in 1964, is falsely connected with freedom. In reality, this law severely restricts individual liberty and replaces it with coercive government acts.