Politicians forever exhort us to “work together” in the common interest, notes William Anderson. But what about the cooperation that occurs each day within the private marketplace?

Wendy McElroy decries the EU’s attempt to legislate equal rights for women: it will bring about a new form of despotism, she warns.

From rolling blackouts to water shortages, California’s troubles result from regulation, says Thomas DiLorenzo

Only a few lines are remembered, writes James Ostrowski, but the entire speech is an appalling socialist harangue.

Paul Krugman rails against cutting taxes, but his own quack solution is more of what brought about the downturn in the first place.

Real “credit crunch” is threatening on the horizon, writes Hans Sennholz, and it could gravely encumber the American economy.

Woodward reports that Greenspan himself was willing, on occasion, to do things that weren’t strictly legal.

A CNN report on a Russian police academy, writes Adam Young, masks the brutality of training children to serve as state revenue agents.