Proponents of health-care reform in the United States obviously have the patients’ interests at heart. For millions of Americans today, medical treatment is impossible to pay for while the system altogether is growing evermore expensive. The needs of those who can’t afford care are at the forefront, but the wishes of doctors and nurses are […]
Since the 2010 Index of Economic Freedom published by the Washington-based Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal warned that, “Government interventions in financial markets and the automotive sector have raised concerns about expropriation and violation of the contractual rights of shareholders and bondholders” in the United States, it is prudent to explore the necessity […]
“Why,” John Stossel wonders, “do Americans stand aside and let the state limit our choices, even when we are dying?”
There’s not much point in replacing nuclear weapons with conventional weapons that are just as powerful.
States are subsidizing jobs, using taxpayers’ dollars to help companies meet payrolls. That’s not something government should be engaged in.
In spite of ever rising costs and increasingly disappointing results, the government monopoly on education is hardly ever called into question. Education, defenders of the system argue, is too important to leave to the free market. The arguments put forward by those in favor of a state-run system typically boil down to two misleading claims. […]
Russell Roberts and Marta Mossburg discuss the growth of crony capitalism.
Excessive government spending, nor European integration, is responsible for Greece’s debt crisis.
On The Daily Beast former New York Times columnist and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations Leslie H. Gelb suggests that Barack Obama “desperately needs a sweeping staff shakeup to save his presidency.” Gelb is most concerned about White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel who, although “a terrific political mind”, lacks the […]
The free market hasn’t failed in American health care. Nick Ottens argues that government interference is in fact to blame.
Unlike most Republicans, Wisconsinite Paul Ryan has a plan to rein in entitlement spending.
America is set to commit yet another sin against capitalism as Google may be punished for being too good a search engine.
David Rothkopf explains why the Democrats should replace their Senate Majority Leader. In spite of a ten vote majority, Reid hasn’t been able to get anything done.
It is not the government’s role to determine how much money people can make.
Republican legislators who have publicly been denouncing the Obama Administration’s stimulus measures as fiscally irresponsible privately sought to obtain stimulus money for their home states.
