— Currently, America is adopting more and more of the thoroughly alien political philosophy that holds people cannot be permitted to act on their free volition, or else their base urges and thoughtless egotism will frustrate construction of the perfect worl Read the Full Story: Balint Vazsonyi: The Ruling of ...

— Over the last three years, Exxon Mobil has paid an average of $27 billion annually in taxes. That's $27,000,000,000 per year, a number so large it's hard to comprehend.

— To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet Read the Full Story: The Sun Also Sets ...

— While on a fellowship in Europe, Newsweek editor Stefan Thiel reviewed and compared economics textbooks for college and high school students in France, Germany, and the United States. He writes about what he found in the current issue of Foreign Policy.

— We're sliding into recession, or worse, and Washington is turning to the normal remedies for economic downturns. But the normal remedies are not likely to work this time, because this isn’t a normal downturn.

— Pop culture accepts these laws as a normal part of national life, a means to forestall a Dickensian nightmare of sweat shops and the capitalist exploitation of children. It's time we rid ourselves of images of children tied to rug looms in the developing Read the Full Story: The ...

— Economists emphasize the importance of the concept of opportunity cost. TANSTAAFL — "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch" — pervades the discipline.

— Years of spending, inflating, taxing, and redistributing has left the US economy teetering on a recession Read the Full Story: Fiscal Follies