Poverty

Dollar stores are hardly the starvation-producing hellholes that the critics claim them to be. They serve their customer base well, but it is not a customer base of elite journalists and politicians.

While efforts to mandate "equality of outcome" are rightly derided, "equality of opportunity" is wrongly held up as essential. But even when we face unequal opportunities, the marketplace can still make us all better off.

The Poor Law Amendment of 1834 attempted to address the problem of runaway costs and abuses of the system. With mixed results.

The public debate of inequality is a muddle of bad assumptions and a disregard for how global poverty has plummeted — thanks to markets — in recent decades.

The last thing the left wants is for people to understand that poor nations only become rich nations with free markets and small government.

Two root causes of homelessness — zoning and minimum-wage laws — are warmly and enthusiastically embraced by both the left and the right and ardently opposed by libertarians.

In a world of rampant central bank intervention and endless government regulation, some are still claiming we live in a world of "hypercapitalism."

Although they're not stylish places according to wealthy coastal elites, many metro areas in the United States still contain a lot of affordable housing.

The dominant immigration narrative in France ignores the importance of free trade, freedom in employment, and the importance of voluntary charity.

The poor are certainly poor compared to the rich. But they have more than the middle class of just one generation ago.