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John Hinderaker of the Powerline blog highlights an important shift in a major legacy media outlet’s coverage of a controversial topic. The culture wars are raging, but on at least…
David Zweig writes for New York Magazine about lingering questions surrounding policies requiring masks for students in school. At the end of May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
Household debt has doubled since 2003. American households are now $14.56 trillion in debt (still far less than the U.S. government’s whopping $28 trillion) which shakes out to around $118,000 per…
David Harsanyi explains at National Review Online why U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is wrong about the government-mandated minimum wage. He focuses specifically on AOC’s statistic that McDonald’s workers in Denmark…
John Fund and Joel Hay write for National Review Online about one Scandinavian country’s distinctive response to COVID-19. If the COVID-19 pandemic tails off in a few weeks, months before…
John Hirschauer writes at National Review Online about the limits of Bernie Sanders’ appeal to Democratic voters. [S]ingle-payer health care is more appealing in its blurriest outlines than it is…
Paul Mirengoff of the Power Line blog explores Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders’ particular brand of socialism. Whenever Bernie Sanders’s socialism comes up in the Democratic debates, he deflects criticism…
David Harsanyi of National Review Online questions why many Americans seem ready to embrace a socialist like Bernie Sanders. A number of pundits have recently argued that younger voters, especially…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online turns to Cold War history to find an appropriate metaphor for Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren’s latest scheme. The class-warfare dreams of the American…
Jim Geraghty of National Review highlights Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren’s obfuscation about the tax impacts of her policy proposals. If you want a Scandinavian-style welfare state, you’ll need a…
Mitchell Nemeth uses a Foundation for Economic Education column to explore the notion that Scandinavian countries offer some sort of socialist paradise. As the 2020 presidential election nears, progressive candidates…
Daniel Schatz writes for Commentary magazine about myths and facts connected to the Swedish economy. Sweden’s period of classical economic liberalism did not last. The decades that followed were characterized…