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…
Read more Polymarket returns to U.S. users after a nearly 3-year hiatusWhile 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…
Read more The real reason golden ages collapse—and how the U.S. can avoid itSometimes 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…
Read more The TRUMP AMERICA AI Act is every bit as bad as you would expect. Maybe worse.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…
Read more Trump’s $1.1 billion tax hike on toys and gamesLina 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…
Read more How Lina Khan is busy striving to maximize Mamdani’s powerWhen 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…
Read more In tariff case, Trump’s attorneys can’t decide if foreign investment is good or bad for AmericaWhat 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.…
Read more Bob Murphy: Welcome to MAGA socialismFor 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…
Read more Trump promised ‘reciprocal’ tariffs. The numbers tell a different story.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…
Read more Biden and Trump are pushing the same failed trade policiesArgentina 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…
Read more Argentina, Once One of the Richest Countries, Is Now One of the Poorest. Javier Milei Could Help Fix That.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…
Read more Why frozen pizza is the best pizzaThanksgiving 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…
Read more Giving away food from government to government isn’t the best way to solve world hungerIf 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.…
Read more All hail the grocery storeMilton 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…
Read more Milton Friedman was no conservative
