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Legacy media ‘took favors’ from Chinese communists
Ward Clark writes for RedState.com about disturbing evidence of media malfeasance. This just in: China is not a friend of the United States. They may be a trading partner, but…
Matthew Yglesias
American blogger and journalist
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Harris Attempts Major Editing of Her Record
James Antle of the Washington Examiner explains why Kamala Harris seeks to be “unburdened by what is her record.” The border czar flap was just the beginning. Vice President Kamala…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Despite the Timing, Intensive Community Policing Should Have Wide Appeal
The current spike in homicides and other violent crime has created an urgent need for more and better policing. Unfortunately, the lingering effects of the anti-police hysteria that swept the…
Liberty
Biden Administration’s Disinformation Czar Described as ‘Nurse Ratched’
Editors of the Washington Free Beacon have little nice to say about the woman charged with carrying out the Biden administration’s disinformation agenda. When we first heard Alejandro Mayorkas announce…
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Media moves highlight divide on the political left
Ben Domenech and Emily Jashinsky detail for the the Federalist a recent high-profile split within the left-of-center media. The state of the media is neatly explained by the recent separation…
Elections & Public Integrity
Left-wing columnist blasts Biden’s electoral chances
Author of the book Why You Should Be A Socialist, Nathan Robinson is no right-wing zealot. Writing for The Guardian, he explains why he’s also no fan of Democratic presidential…
Elections & Public Integrity
Correcting the record on Trump and Iraq
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column for National Review Online asks questions most presidential candidates refuse to ask about Republican front-runner Donald Trump and Iraq. Donald Trump constantly brings up Iraq…
Liberty
“A Candidate for Our Time”
That’s what Matthew Iglesias called Hillary Clinton in a recent Vox post. Why? Because she’s willing to bend–or even break–the law in order to get what she wants: From her…
Liberty
Zoning and the Poor
Ilya Somin has posted an interesting disucssion on the Washington Post website about the many ways in which zoning hurts the poor. He quotes from, and links to, a Mercatus Center report in which:…
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Don’t worry, be happy, keep borrowing
When big government types confront those of us who understand that scarcity necessitates trade-offs, they usually say that government spending is different. Governments and especially ours, can simply borrow or…
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Trying to explain Bastiat to a statist
In his TGIF column, Sheldon Richman attempts to explain Frederic Bastiat’s insights into the way government causes the waste of resources to a writer who thinks he has a refutation…
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“Maybe these really are uglier times than usual.”
Russ Roberts posted this on Cafe Hayek. Andrew Breitbart has passed away. I didn’t know him. I never met him. I know little about him. I know he had something…