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Polymarket returns to U.S. users after a nearly 3-year hiatus

January 4, 2026January 4, 2026 · Politics

Talk is cheap—but Polymarket lets you put your money where your mouth is. Nearly four years after being shut down by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the…

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The real reason golden ages collapse—and how the U.S. can avoid it

December 30, 2025December 30, 2025 · Politics

While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, “We’re a nation in decline.” Now that he’s president, the left agrees. “We are witnessing the collapse and implosion of the American…

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The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is every bit as bad as you would expect. Maybe worse.

December 29, 2025December 29, 2025 · Politics

Sometimes you can tell a bill will be really bad just from its title. So it goes with The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance Advancing Machine Intelligence by Eliminating…

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Trump’s $1.1 billion tax hike on toys and games

November 28, 2025November 28, 2025 · Politics

Asked in April about the potential consequences of hiking tariffs on nearly all American imports, President Donald Trump delivered a memorably blunt assessment. “Maybe the children will have…

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How Lina Khan is busy striving to maximize Mamdani’s power

November 14, 2025November 14, 2025 · Politics

Lina Khan has quickly thrown water on any hopes that she might be a benign force on New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team. The former Federal…

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In tariff case, Trump’s attorneys can’t decide if foreign investment is good or bad for America

November 3, 2025November 3, 2025 · Politics

When the Trump administration’s lawyers go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to argue a crucial case that will determine the limits of presidential tariff authority, they…

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Bob Murphy: Welcome to MAGA socialism

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 · Politics

What do you call it when the state takes partial ownership of a private company? Just asking questions. Ten percent of Intel now belongs to the U.S. government.…

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Trump promised ‘reciprocal’ tariffs. The numbers tell a different story.

August 18, 2025August 18, 2025 · Politics

For months on the campaign trail and after taking office, President Donald Trump promised that his tariff policies would be based on a simple principle: reciprocity. “Whatever they…

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Biden and Trump are pushing the same failed trade policies

Biden and Trump are pushing the same failed trade policies

July 19, 2024July 19, 2024 · Politics

In a letter to House Democrats urging their support for his re-election, President Joe Biden slammed Donald Trump’s recent call for a 10-percent across-the-board tariff on imported products, complaining…

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Argentina, Once One of the Richest Countries, Is Now One of the Poorest. Javier Milei Could Help Fix That.

Argentina, Once One of the Richest Countries, Is Now One of the Poorest. Javier Milei Could Help Fix That.

January 30, 2024January 31, 2024 · Politics

Argentina actually elected a libertarian president. Javier Milei campaigned with a chainsaw, promising to cut the size of government. Argentina’s leftists had so clogged the country’s economic arteries…

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Why frozen pizza is the best pizza

Why frozen pizza is the best pizza

November 26, 2023November 26, 2023 · Politics

Debates about pizza are a lot like debates about religion, or politics, or monetary policy: There are a lot of strongly held beliefs, but very little is ever…

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Giving away food from government to government isn’t the best way to solve world hunger

Giving away food from government to government isn’t the best way to solve world hunger

November 23, 2023November 23, 2023 · Politics

Thanksgiving week is a time to be grateful for the nutritional abundance you enjoy, and for many an appropriate time to think about how to help those who…

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All hail the grocery store

All hail the grocery store

November 23, 2023November 23, 2023 · Politics

If I had one chance to show a medieval peasant the glories of the modern world, I wouldn’t take them to a space launch or a science lab.…

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Milton Friedman was no conservative

Milton Friedman was no conservative

November 11, 2023November 11, 2023 · Politics

Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer Burns, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 592 pages, $35 As Jennifer Burns writes in her excellent new biography of the libertarian economist…

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