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Lipton Matthews

Progressive supporters of USAID claim that the agency does vital work overseas to provide medical care and other necessities for the poorest of the poor. Yet, a careful look at its record reveals that USAID often is a hindrance to the very people it claims to help.

James Bovard

Like presidents before him, Donald Trump is using the IRS as a weapon against organizations he doesn‘t like. Richard Nixon did the same thing—and it helped bring down his presidency.

Owen Ashworth

In the name of fighting income inequality, pundits in the UK and US are calling for wealth taxes as magic bullets that will restore an imaginary state of income equality that never existed in the first place. It is time to abandon this idea for good.

Patrick Barron

Oh, I know, you aren’t really against free trade per se. You just demand a “level playing field.” Demanding a level playing field for international trade is a complete waste of time.

William L. Anderson

In the world of private enterprise, business owners pay attention to costs already incurred that cannot be recovered, also known as “sunk costs.” Government officials, however, see sunk costs as an incentive to promote public projects where costs clearly outweigh benefits.

Justin M. Ptak

Free markets and free minds must push back against the mercantilist and populist policies associated with current Keynesians; we must draw upon the foundational ideas of economists such as Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Israel Kirzner, and Murray Rothbard.

Joakim Book

Although government officials and true believers in “green energy” are denying it, the collapse of the electric grid in Spain and Portugal proves that reliance on renewables for electric production is doomed to failure. Whether people listen is another story.

George Ford Smith

Have Americans forgotten how to be free? When warfare erupted between American colonists and the British government, the colonists believed that they had God-given rights that protected them against state power. Would that Americans today believed the same thing.