When President Trump gets frustrated with other countries—friendly or adversarial—he tends to threaten them, from Greenland ...

Proposition 40 is called a one-time tax, but the way it is funded and California’s tax history suggest it will last. People adapt to a tax over time, so a ...

Fidel Castro was born just over one hundred years ago. The Communist Party, of course, has organized major celebrations while ...

California’s billionaire tax is being sold to voters as a way to make the state’s wealthiest residents pay a fairer share, ...

The World Health Organization declared an end to the COVID-19 public-health emergency more than three years ago. Its deaths, ...

This book review appeared in the Summer 2008 issue of The Independent Review. America’s favorite son, the indebted, slaveholding bon vivant Thomas Jefferson, set the tone for modern political economy ...

Recently, the law firm Holland & Knight released a report analyzing appellate court decisions involving the California ...

Like most elderly citizens, I don’t know a lot about the science and mechanics behind artificial intelligence (AI), but I have read increasingly ...

In an attempt before American mid-term elections to shift blame for high U.S. fuel prices from his unnecessary and now ...

Whenever inflation figures are released, politicians and news commentators are quick to blame rising prices on “capitalist ...

Automated license plate readers like Flock cameras have been quietly appearing on roadsides all over the U.S. Florida is no ...

The U.S. government's total public debt outstanding has grown to more than $40 trillion, surpassing that threshold on August ...