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Choosing Smart Embryos Isn't Immoral

Let's say you're a fertility doctor advising would-be parents who have exactly two viable embryos ready for implantation. The parents want to implant only one embryo. This is not an uncommon scenario; more than 71,000 babies were born in the U.S. via assisted reproduction in 2016.

Gerry Mandering Is Out Of Control

Computers could be the key to resolving partisan fights over congressional boundaries.

How Vietnam Gave Us C-SPAN

Brian Lamb, the network’s founder, is retiring after 40 years of putting cameras on Congress, hosting in-depth interviews, and creating an enduring home for diverse civil discourse.

Law Brett Kavanaugh Flunks His First Test As An Originalist

In his 2018 confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was asked by Sen.

Everything You Know About State Education Rankings Is Wrong

You probably thinkyou know which states have the best and worst education systems in the country.

Dissent And Disarray In Putin's Russia

The authoritarian President’s hold on power may be shakier than it looks.

Has America's Obsession With Manufacturing Jobs Gone Too Far?

A wisconsin town is spending billions, seizing homes, and breaking state law to lure a Taiwanese company.

Can Laundry And Lettuce Save Cleaveland?

A worker-owned co-op that even a capitalist could love is washing linens for the cleveland clinic and growing vegetables for the city.

Freeborn Frank Turner

The British musician brings a libertarian sensibility to his new folk-punk album.

Do Partisans Hate Each Other More Than Ever?

Scholars try to explain today’s political warfare.

Congress Needs An Opioid Intervention

In an effortto combat the opioid crisis in America, Congress is calling for a slate of governmental interventions that have been tried, tested, and shown to cause more harm.

Uber, But For Poop

EVERYBODY POOPS, BUT not everybody has to deal with a cartel when trying to dispose of it.

India At A Crossroads

India is known as the land of contradictions, and recent events do little to undermine that reputation.

Russia's Global Anti- Libertarian Crusade

How Vladimir Putin’s desire for domination and acceptance is scrambling American politics 

Gorsuch's Record Was More liberal Than Kennedy's This Term

HERE’S A CURIOUS fact about the U.S. Supreme Court term that concluded in June: Trump-appointed Justice Neil Gorsuch racked up a more “liberal” voting record than Justice Anthony Kennedy.

Dear Immigration Restrictionists: Milton Friedman Was Not On Your Side

THE LATE NOBEL Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman was a free market libertarian who believed that immigrants helped make America great.

Grandparents In The Gulag

DEBRA CUPP, 60, stood in front of the U.S. Capitol on a hot day in July holding a handmade sign: “Ron Cupp died waiting on compassionate release, Jan. 3, 2017.”

The Tribe Of Liberty

National Review’s Jonah Goldberg wonders how to save civilization in his new book, Suicide of the West.

Meet The Good Soldier Svejk, Patron Saint Of Malingerers And Saboteurs

A 1920s-era Novel Sheds Light on Eastern European Anti-authoritarianism.

The Prohibition President

Politics

America's Biggest Rental Car Company Is Lobbying to Drive Away Competitors

The first time New Hampshire State Rep. Sherman Packard (R–Rockingham) heard of the car-sharing startup Turo, it was from a lobbyist.

The Wall Won't End Pot Smuggling At The Border. Legalization Will.

Pot is bulky and pungent.

Netflix Bows To The Saudis

Even tech giants have to follow the law.

The IRS Targets Drug Policy Reformers

A recently adopted IRS rule for tax exempt organizations seems to violate the First Amendment by taking aim at groups that support drug policy reform.

Trump Just Can't Quit Afghanistan

IMAGINE BEING A U.S. citizen who believes that America should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after nearly 18 years of increasingly pointless war.

World South Africa Goes Halfway On Pot

JOHANNESBURG’S WORST-KEPT SECRET looks like any other suburban bar, with a bartender who has nothing unusual to offer.

Oh Deer

30 Million of Bambi’s Buddies Are on the Loose in the U.s., Causing Crop Damage and Car Accidents. Markets Can Help.

Fentanyl Is Not A Nuke, And Drug Dealers Are Not Terrorists

Could fentanyl be a weapon of mass destruction?

How We Childproofed Our Cities

Kid-friendly spaces make it harder to grow up.

Blockchain Is Changing Lives In Africa

Startups from Cape Town to Nairobi think the budding technology is the future of the continent.