Although the word federalism does not appear in the Constitution, it is one of the most important and innovative concepts in it.
The states of the United States of America created the national government in 1789. The states had been ...
Communist and other authoritarian and totalitarian governments around the world have always, throughout history and at this very time, arrested (or sometimes just simply seized) and jailed (or sometimes just killed) political dissidents and other nonconformists whom they considered ...
Government “shutdowns” in the United States occur when Congress and the president cannot agree on appropriations bills to fund the federal government before the previous ones expire.
Since the current budget and appropriations process began in 1976, the federal government ...
Since 2009, I have written about ninety articles on the subject of the drug war, many of them for the Future of Freedom Foundation, and some of them for this very publication. I have maintained throughout these articles that ...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA), better known as Obamacare, was signed into law by Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. It was one of the most partisan pieces of legislation in history. Not a ...
The mass shootings in August at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and at a bar in Dayton, Ohio, prompted the CEOs of more than a hundred large and small corporations to write a letter to the members of ...
Cory Booker (D-N.J.) is living proof that anyone in America can become a U.S. senator.
According to Article I, Section 3, Clause 3 of the Constitution, there are three qualifications to be a U.S. senator:
No Person ...
It looks like the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity will be having some competition.
The formation of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft was recently announced. The think tank gets its name from John Quincy Adams. According to ...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a plan. Although her plan is about expanding Social Security, it is a strange coincidence that she released her plan on the very day she would be appearing onstage at a Democratic presidential debate alongside ...
The ideas of Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) are alive and well.
Malthus was the popularizer of the bogus idea that the population was increasing beyond the means of subsistence. He wrote in his 1798 book, An Essay on the Principle ...
