Not since the meek accountant in the back of the courtroom leapt up and screamed, “Stop, Perry Mason! I did it! I killed him, and I’m GLAD!” has a suspect been quite so eager to confess his crimes as Donald J. Trump. When he proposed a Muslim ban in 2016 and then actually declared one […]
The Affordability Case for Public Factories
It’s not socialism. Public factories are an old American answer to monopoly profiteering. The Progressive Caucus wants to bring them back.
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The Capitalists Trying to Fix Capitalism
“Market humanism” is how the economy should work, argue Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker.
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Trump and Blanche’s Orwellian Language and How Much of Washington Echoes It
Ask James Comey how they’ve managed to hype his seashells while downplaying real killing.
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Michigan’s Democratic Senate Primary Needs a Non-Aggression Pact
Polls show the three-way slugfest between Abdul El-Sayed, Mallory McMorrow, and Haley Stevens is dragging them all down and creating a pickup opportunity for the GOP.
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How to Think About Spirit’s Failure—and the Airline Crisis
If the only way for airlines to survive is to constantly merge or get bailed out by the government, then it’s time to admit that the industry is more like a public utility than a competitive market.
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Profiting From Inflated Hospital Prices
This week’s CPI report shows hospital prices continue to race ahead of price increases in other health care sectors. In the past year, so have hospital profits.
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“The Library is One of the Best Libertarian Arguments for Limited Government”
John Chrastka of EveryLibrary, which fights for library budgets and against book bans, discusses libraries, their central role in our society, censorship—and those drag-queen story hours.
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