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• Why Americans Don’t Need Federal Protection from Google, Amazon, or Facebook
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  Clyde Wayne Crews | Saturday, September 1, 2018

  Antitrust regulation’s recent rise from the not-quite-dead heralds a serious impediment to free competitive enterprise and entrepreneurship because of the greater damage it can do now in frontier sectors and on a global rather than national scale.

• Chicago’s Electronic Surveillance of Food Trucks Is Ridiculous—and Probably Unconstitutional
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  Ilya Shapiro | Monday, August 27, 2018

  The lower court’s ruling not only failed to appreciate these sensible limitations, it essentially gave the government carte blanche to condition the issuance of licenses—any licenses—on applicants’ agreeing to waive their Fourth Amendment rights. Carried to its logical conclusion, such judicial indulgence would permit the government to condition issuing driver’s licenses on the installation of GPS trackers, or on standing consent to random searches of the owner’s vehicle.

• The Decline of the American Republic
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  John T. Flynn | Friday, July 27, 2018
  Fill out the form below to get your own free, downloadable copy of The Decline of the American Republic! FOREWORD It is some time since I have felt called on to write a foreword to a book of mine. But it is difficult for me to resist the temptation to provide one for this small […]
• Patients Without Borders: The Rise of Medical Tourism
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  Brittany Hunter | Thursday, June 21, 2018

  The thought of traveling outside of the United States for health care might sound absurd to many Americans. After all, why on earth would we travel to a developing country for medical treatment when we live in one of the richest countries in the world? The truth is, while American health care costs continue to rise, something quite spectacular is occurring in other parts of the globe: the costs are going down and the quality of care is going up.

• Google Should Tell Congress to Mind Its Own Business
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  John Tamny | Friday, June 15, 2018

  Which brings us to Google’s business relationship with Huawei. When we remember the quantity of supercomputers being shipped by Huawei, it’s only logical that Google would have a relationship with the Chinese company. To not have one would be self-defeating. At the same time, it doesn’t really matter why Google has dealings with Huawei. As a profit-seeking corporation, it should be able to do as it wishes subject to shareholder approval.

  The problem is certain politicians.

• A Message from Lawrence W. Reed
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  Lawrence W. Reed | Monday, June 11, 2018

  Our Board has formed a search committee and will make an announcement later this summer about the process that will eventually produce an exciting new FEE President. I first became active for liberty a half-century ago with the hope of being a writer. I’ve written a lot over the years but somehow, I’ve also ended up running a lot of things too: the economics department at Northwood University, the Center for Market Alternatives in Idaho, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Michigan, and then FEE. So when the day comes that I’m not running an organization and I get to write more, I’ll return to my roots I put in the ground when I published my first article for FEE 41 years ago. I have so many things on my list of “stuff to write about” that I’m excited about the prospect.

• Bettina Bien Greaves: In Memoriam
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  Bettina Bien Greaves Lawrence W. Reed | Tuesday, June 5, 2018
  Fill out the form below to get your own copy of Bettina Bien Greaves: In Memoriam! Introduction One of the very first FEE staff members that I ever met was Bettina Bien Greaves. It happened more than four decades ago, in the summer of 1977, in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. I was one of 35 attendees […]
• The Cinder Buggy
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  Garet Garrett | Monday, June 4, 2018
  Fill out the form below to get your own copy of The Cinder Buggy! A pot-metal bodyon two little wheels,absurdly,bow-leggedlywalking away to the dumpwith the slag, thepurgings of iron, thevillainous drool of the furnace—      that is a cinder buggy. It is also a signthat what man refinesbeyondGod’s contentwith things as he left themwill very soon perishfor […]
• Insane Homeland Security Spending Doesn’t Make Us Safer
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  James Bovard | Tuesday, January 2, 2018

  After the 9/11 attacks, Congress and the Bush administration pretended that unlimited federal spending was one of the best ways to thwart terrorist threats. In 2002, Congress created the Homeland Security Department, sweeping some of the most inept federal agencies into the new mega-department. Congress also created numerous programs to shovel out more than $30 billion in anti-terrorism funding to local and state governments.

• Consumer Protection Doesn’t Require Government Intervention
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  Richard M. Ebeling | Wednesday, December 13, 2017

  Capitalism is a wondrous human institution for the mutual betterment for all in society. Yet, critics often insist that market systems enable sellers to take advantage of buyers. However, market competition generates the incentives and opportunities to earn profits precisely by not misinforming or cheating the buyer.