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• Why the ‘Zombie Drug’ Spreading Across the US Should Remain Off the Schedule I List
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  Peter Clark | Friday, March 3, 2023

  The emerging street drug “tranq” has been dubbed the “zombie drug” because leaves users with open sores and a disoriented gait.

  Unfortunately, prohibition would likely only make matters worse.

• ’Tis the Season for Deadweight Losses. Should We Care?
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  Bruce Rottman | Wednesday, December 21, 2022

  In economics, a deadweight loss is as bad as it sounds.

• Why the Middle Class Should Start Paying Attention to the Death Tax
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  Daniel Kowalski | Wednesday, July 28, 2021

  President Biden is looking to widen the “death tax” base to include estates valued at $1 million—even if those gains are unrealized.

  Here’s what that means for Americans. 

• That Ship That Blocked the Suez Did What Tariffs Do Every Day
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  Patrick Carroll | Friday, April 2, 2021

  “For the erection of tariff walls has the same effect as the erection of real walls.”
  —Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson

• What Government Poverty Statistics Leave Out
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  James D. Agresti | Sunday, February 2, 2020

  While pressing her agenda to expand means-tested welfare programs, Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is claiming that the federal government’s poverty statistics vastly undercount the number of Americans who are “destitute.”

• 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.