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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.

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.