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Polymarket returns to U.S. users after a nearly 3-year hiatus
[ad_1] Talk is cheap—but Polymarket lets you put your money where your mouth is. Nearly four years after being shut down by the Commodity…
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Politics
The real reason golden ages collapse—and how the U.S. can avoid it
[ad_1] 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…
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The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is every bit as bad as you would expect. Maybe worse.
[ad_1] Sometimes you can tell a bill will be really bad just from its title. So it goes with The Republic Unifying Meritocratic Performance…
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Trump’s $1.1 billion tax hike on toys and games
[ad_1] Asked in April about the potential consequences of hiking tariffs on nearly all American imports, President Donald Trump delivered a memorably blunt assessment.…
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How Lina Khan is busy striving to maximize Mamdani’s power
[ad_1] 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…
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In tariff case, Trump’s attorneys can’t decide if foreign investment is good or bad for America
[ad_1] 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…
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Bob Murphy: Welcome to MAGA socialism
[ad_1] What do you call it when the state takes partial ownership of a private company? Just asking questions. Ten percent of Intel now…
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Trump promised ‘reciprocal’ tariffs. The numbers tell a different story.
[ad_1] For months on the campaign trail and after taking office, President Donald Trump promised that his tariff policies would be based on a…
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Biden and Trump are pushing the same failed trade policies
[ad_1] 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…
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Argentina, Once One of the Richest Countries, Is Now One of the Poorest. Javier Milei Could Help Fix That.
[ad_1] Argentina actually elected a libertarian president. Javier Milei campaigned with a chainsaw, promising to cut the size of government. Argentina’s leftists had so…
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Why frozen pizza is the best pizza
[ad_1] Debates about pizza are a lot like debates about religion, or politics, or monetary policy: There are a lot of strongly held beliefs,…
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Giving away food from government to government isn’t the best way to solve world hunger
[ad_1] Thanksgiving week is a time to be grateful for the nutritional abundance you enjoy, and for many an appropriate time to think about…
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All hail the grocery store
[ad_1] If I had one chance to show a medieval peasant the glories of the modern world, I wouldn’t take them to a space…
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Milton Friedman was no conservative
[ad_1] Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, by Jennifer Burns, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 592 pages, $35 As Jennifer Burns writes in her excellent new…