It does not take too much upstairs to see through the Biden administration’s rejection of the JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger. The […]

This week, to start off “Ask an Economist” for the year, I have a question from Stan K. about the […]

Argentines elected 53-year-old political outsider Javier Milei as their new president on Sunday. Milei, an economist and self-described libertarian, pulled […]

The earliest documented cases of dyslexia, or a language processing disorder that makes it difficult to read, date back more […]

In November 2021, former US Representative from Georgia Bob Barr wrote a little-noticed political column claiming that buried inside President […]

Banished for debasing the currency from his home city in what is now north-central Turkey, Diogenes of Sinope chose to […]

Chicago’s new mayor, Brandon Johnson, is experimenting with a surprising new city policy— government-run grocery stores. The policy idea was […]

This week for Ask an Economist, I have a question from a reader named Mark. He says, “I’ve worked with […]

Todd Seavey’s 2016 book Libertarianism For Beginners is a thoughtful and accessible introduction to libertarian thinking, perfect for someone who […]

I think the average American does not know that the US Federal Reserve currently pays 4.90% interest to banks on […]

A Singapore-based webcomic called The Woke Salaryman recently posted a comic extolling the virtues of taxation and encouraging people to […]

Left-wing politicians who demand higher taxes on the rich argue that the United States has, in the past, prospered when […]

Alan DiPietro is an alpaca farmer in the town of Bolton, Massachusetts (pop: 5,376). He lives in an RV on […]

Though Karl Marx’s theories were never valid, they changed the world by stoking grievance, focusing it on the status quo, […]

With the Supreme Court’s hearing of the Students for Fair Admission case against Harvard University and the University of North […]