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POLITICS
Make Health Savings Accounts Work for Everyone
Increase HSA contribution limits so nearly all workers could deposit 100 percent of what their employer pays toward health benefits tax‐free into an HSA.
The United Healthcare CEO Murder and the Right to Health Care
People are shocked at the murder of the United Healthcare CEO and those who support the actions of the murderer. They rightfully denounce the murderer and those who support him. However, no one has identified the fundamental reason why many people think the murder is justified.
An Open Letter to President Trump
Congratulations to you. In no particular order, here are some public policy recommendations.
The Meaning Behind Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
On Martin Luther King Day–and every day–we should focus on the antidote to racism and alternative to racial thinking: individualism.
MARKETS
Progress In a Free Economy
The Industrial Revolution has allowed mankind to improve his environment.
Why Do Business Leaders Appease Their Enemies?
The fundamental reason for appeasing the critics of business is that company executives lack the moral argument for defense. As Ayn Rand argues in ‘The Sanction of The Victims,’ most business leaders have accepted the moral code of altruism.
Time To Privatize the United States Postal Service
Decades of ossification, political interference, and financial losses have left USPS in unsustainable position.
Bitcoin Bests $100,000
If Bitcoin is someday supplanted by another digital asset offering indisputable improvements, its foundational role in seeding and anchoring the cryptocurrency asset class — and in driving trillions of dollars of investment into similar and related assets and enterprises — will remain as significant, if not more so, than its contributions to the present.
CULTURE
The Demonization of “White” English Harms Black Students
Is Learning Standard “White” English Oppressive for Black Students?
Inconvenient Historical Truths From ‘Black History Month’
A few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
The Meaning of President’s Day
America’s Early Presidents Were Admirable Men of Principle– Let us Hope we can Find More Like Them
Making Resolutions Outlast January
As Ayn Rand put it, a value is something you act to gain or keep. A desire without action then is just a wish.
LAW
California’s Suspension of Environmental Regulations Should Be Permanent
If these regulations are an unnecessary hindrance for those recovering from the wildfires, why are they necessary at all?
Hunter Biden Pardon and The Evils of ‘Lawfare’
Lawfare involves the targeting of defendants based primarily on who they are rather than what they have done.
The CDC Planned Quarantine Camps Nationwide
It was called “Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings.”
Arrest of Telegram Creator Pavel Durov and The Global Assault Against Freedom of Speech
Pavel Durov, who in 2014 fled Russia after the Kremlin “tightened its grip over the Internet” — only to find himself a prisoner in the West a decade later.
SCI-TECH
The Energy Freedom Plan: 25 Policy Changes to Unleash American Energy
It may seem impossible, but 4 years from now America can have Record oil and gas production Cheap, plentiful, reliable electricity High environmental quality" Low climate danger A nuclear renaissance For well over a year I’ve been working on an Energy Freedom Plan...
Unleashing American Energy: America’s Silver Bullet
It’s said that in politics there’s no silver bullet that’ll make everything better. But we do have 1 silver bullet in the chamber: the opportunity to unleash American energy, which Donald Trump has rightly vowed to do.
Why I Strongly Support Chris Wright for Secretary of Energy
President-elect Donald Trump tapped Chris Wright to lead the Department of Energy and to sit on a new “National Energy Council.”
Bad Forest Management, and Not Climate Change, is the Root Cause of California Fires
The solution to dangerous, out-of-control wildfires in California is addressing the root cause: “excess fuel load” from bad forest management. Focusing on climate change, a minor variable that we have no near-term control over, is a craven political ploy.
WORLD
Black History Month: Why Don’t They Teach About the Arab-Muslim Slave Trade in Africa?
Black history is American history. It ought not be “relegated” to a month, and slavery ought not be relegated to only the European slave trade.
On The Release of Israeli Hostages by Hamas: It Wasn’t a Deal – It Was a Crime
The decision by the Israeli government to make significant concessions to the Hamas kidnappers should never be called a “deal.” It was an extortion.
Why Does The US Grow While the EU Slows?
What explains the curious lack of economic progress in the EU over the past 16 years? Adam Smith has the recipe.
How Billionaires Became an Endangered Species in Norway How Billionaires Became an Endangered Species in Norway
Ayn Rand’s story is fiction, of course. But what is happening in Norway is real. Wealthy entrepreneurs are abandoning the country because they are tired of being looted by parasitic politicians.