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Don't Blame Karl Marx For ‘Cultural Marxism'

Political correctness isnt acommunist plot.

Starve The Tax Man

Americans are increasingly reluctant to pay the IRS. Who can blame them?

Would We Have Been Better Off With Perot?

An alternative history of America after 1992

Kamala Harris Is A Cop Who Wants To Be President

The California Senator and former prosecutor has a long record of Pushing Illiberal Policies.

Marie Kondo Understands What Tucker Carlson And Bernie Sanders Do Not

Marie Kondo understands what Tucker Carlson and Bernie Sanders do not.

A Big Freak-Out Over Donald Trump's 'Skinny' Budget

PRESIDENTIAL BUDGETS HAVE all the legal force of a letter to Santa—they’re essentially the White House asking Congress for a pony. The “skinny” blueprint released by the Office of Management and Budget in March is the result of even less consultation and collaboration than usual with the legislators who hold actual budget-making power, which makes wish fulfillment even more unlikely. Nevertheless, when President Donald Trump announced $54 billion in cuts to several federal agencies, the press immediately got to work on its own form of slash fiction, fetishizing the appropriations status quo and moaning over any possibility of budgetary restraint.

An Economist Goes To Shanghai

LAST OCTOBER, I found myself in an Uber being whisked along a bank of the Huang pu River. I’d just arrived in Shanghai, and several of my students were eager to take me to see the sights. They wanted to show me the Bund (rhymes with fund). That’s the local, Persian-origin name for the promenade on which the Europeans a century ago erected a collection of 50 or so banks, trading companies, and insurance firms: the very heart of pre-Communist capitalism in China. The buildings, especially nice when illuminated at night, are done in 1920s Beaux-Arts or art deco style.

The Disappearing Sixth Amendment

YOU HAVE THE right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided to you.

How Washington Lost The War On Muscle

Steroid Users Hustle To Stay One Rep Ahead Of The Law.

Republicans Don't Lack A Plan To Replace Obamacare. They Lack A Unified Theory

THERE HAS NEVER been a shortage of gop substitutes for Obamacare, from think tank white papers to congressional committee frameworks to fully drafted bills. But in the seven years that congressional Republicans spent promising to repeal and replace President Obama’s health care law, none ever moved beyond the development phase, because what Republicans lacked wasn’t a plan. It was a theory.

Meet Eric July

Your New Favorite Anarcho-Capitalist Christian Rap-Metal Artist

Supreme Court Tries To Draw A Line Around Gay Wedding Cakes

IF DECORATING A cake counts as constitutionally protected speech, what doesn’t count? That was the question at stake during Supreme Court oral arguments in Masterpiece Cake shop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

The FCC Takes Its Hands Off The Internet

IN APRIL, AJIT Pai, the newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), announced his first major initiative: taking internet regulation back to 2014.

Junkyard Blight No More

LIKE OIL-SLICKED SEAGULLS and smokestacks spewing black fumes, piles of rusting cars were standard symbols of environmental blight in the 1960s and early ’70s. “Few of America’s eyesores are so unsightly as its millions of junked automobiles,” President Richard Nixon declared in a 1970 speech.

Throw Your Kid In The Scorpion Pit

“HE HAS A class on race and emotional safety,” an old friend of mine squealed with delight about her son’s public school schedule.

Banned In Cannes

Perched on France’s southern coast, Cannes is famous for its luxurious beaches.

Guitar Globalization

Ex–Rage Against the Machine axman Tom Morello decides to Rock Against the TPP.

Hollywood Takes On Fan Fiction

A Star Trek lover’s new film is making the studios unhappy.

Free Brazil!

Meet the millennial libertarian activists who helped bring down a president.

Charlottesville And The Perils Of Collectivism

PETER CVJETANOVIC STANDS in a sea of tiki torches, his mouth wide open, teeth partially bared. You can almost hear the snarling scream from the photograph.

Government Created The Housing Crisis. Government Can Solve It.

Suggestions from a New York real estate attorney

Your Flight Is Delayed

THE FRENZIED BATTLE TO REFORM AMERICAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

Cops Who Claim They Know When Drivers Are Stoned

Even when blood tests say they’re not

Authoritarians To The Left And Right

Authoritarians To The Left And Right

Don't Panic Over North Korea

Don't Panic Over North Korea

Go Ahead, Put Salt On Your Food

Ignore the feds’ bad advice on diet and nutrition.

What America Taught A Murderous Drug Warrior

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte follows prohibitionist logic to its lethal conclusion.

Deportations Up Under Trump

A round-up of immigrant round-ups

Jane Jacobs, In Her Own Words

The death and life of a great American urbanist

Your Money Or Your Life

The immorality of insurance