A new wave of public polling and media coverage suggests that the Trump administration’s claim that “there is no affordability crisis” is increasingly being rejected by American households. Recent reporting…
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You can’t build a castle on sand, and you can’t build a city on assumptions. Saudi Arabia unveiled The Line in January 2021 as a perfect, linear utopia stretching 170…
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In November, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung launched a crackdown on so-called hate speech online, claiming that such speech “crosses the boundary of freedom of expression.” Punishments can include fines…
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This week marks five years since the passing of Dr. Walter E. Williams. He had the elegance to die, at 84, minutes after teaching the last class of the semester…
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“The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness,” The New York Times reported in a bombshell article on November 30. “Over the last five years,…
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The United States recently emerged from the longest government shutdown in its history, one that halted operations, froze budgets, and led to 1.4 million federal employees being either furloughed or…
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Objections to income inequality are commonplace. We hear these today from across the ideological spectrum, including, for example, from the far-left data-gatherer Thomas Piketty, the far-right provocateur Tucker Carlson, and…
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The United States recently emerged from the longest government shutdown in its history, one that halted operations, froze budgets, and led to 1.4 million federal employees being either furloughed or…
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Every era of easy money produces its speculative mascots. In the late 1990s, it was Beanie Babies — tiny stuffed animals that cost under a dollar to make, yet sold…
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Americans love a garage, but we don’t park cars there. We store old bikes with bent wheels, parts of beds and dressers, and a wide variety of tools and old…