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• What Is Entrepreneurship?
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  Doug McCullough Brooke Medina | Friday, September 20, 2019

  If launching a business is so challenging and uncertain, why is it so alluring?

• This Fourth of July, Remember the Promise (and Price) of Liberty
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  James Devereaux | Thursday, July 4, 2019

  Remember, since the Declaration of Independence was signed we have seen: the greatest increase in wealth in human history propelled by ideas of liberty, even economic liberty, dramatic increases in nutrition, dramatic decreases in child mortality, an upward shift in life expectancy, cheaper clothes, climate controlled buildings, fewer deaths from: exposure, disease, nature, and the wild things of yore.

• “Free” College Would Depreciate the Value of College Degrees Even More
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  Paul Boyce | Monday, May 20, 2019

  In 1990, 14.2 million students enrolled in degree-granting institutions. By 2010, this figure reached 21 million.

  As the number of applicants has increased, standards have declined to accommodate them.

• The History and Results of America’s Disastrous Public School System, Part I
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  Mike Margeson Justin Spears | Monday, May 13, 2019

  Why would the government continue to propagate a system that produces such questionable results? The answer lies in their motives, and their motives are best understood by reviewing a brief history of compulsory schooling.

• Don’t Abolish the Electoral College, Improve It
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  Catherine Alles | Thursday, March 28, 2019

  The Constitution lets states reform the Electoral College by allowing votes to be divided proportionally according to congressional districts.

• Americans Are Drowning in Student Loans, New Household Debt Report Shows
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  Craig Eyermann | Thursday, February 21, 2019

  The amount of delinquent student loan debt in the United States has reached a new high. What can be done to solve this growing crisis?

• What the Economic Models of Nobel Laureate William Nordhaus Say on Climate Change
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  Robert P. Murphy | Monday, October 22, 2018

  Here are three surprising facts about Nordhaus’s model that are relevant to today’s policy debate.

• Strong Women Don’t Need the State to Get Them Corporate Board Seats
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  Mary L. G. Theroux | Sunday, September 23, 2018

  California’s politicians owe it to their constituents to turn their attention to the (mis-)management of their own house and quit hiding their ineptness behind the smoke and mirrors of “diversity,” “equity,” “justice,” and all the other goods government is worst at delivering.

• A Look at Pay for Federal Employees Compared to Their Private-Sector Counterparts
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  James D. Agresti | Wednesday, September 5, 2018

  Some politicians and an association of federal employees have criticized Trump for canceling federal employee pay raises, saying that federal workers are underpaid and deserve a raise. However, a broad range of studies have found that most federal civilian employees are paid better than comparable workers in the private sector.

• The Illusion of School Choice
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  Antony Davies James R. Harrigan | Wednesday, August 16, 2017

  In private schools, as in private enterprise in general, poor performance drives funding away by driving paying customers away. Yet in public schools, poor performance is used as an excuse for increased funding. With incentives like these, is it any wonder that public schools are failing our children so badly?