Despite the descriptions of many politicians and pundits, there is no way to "cancel" student loan debts. The debt burden would merely be shifted to people who didn't agree to take out these loans.

Imposing a national 3-day limit would be an unfounded and callous government intrusion into the practice of medicine.

At $15 an hour, many unskilled workers simply won’t be able to effectively compete against skilled workers and against automation, and we’ve therefore handicapped America’s most vulnerable workers by taking away from them the most effective strategy they have—the ability to offer to work for a competitive wage that is consistent with their lack of skills.

Before taking too much satisfaction in a nation equating communism and Nazism, however, the law in its entirety should be considered. As noted above, the legislation prohibits the use of Nazi and communist symbols. Violators of the law can be imprisoned.

The leading 82 non-profit hospitals in the US have combined net assets of $203 billion. Their average growth last year was 23.6 percent. These figures would make even the most loyal believers in the free market pause—except this isn’t capitalism.

Evidence suggests it is possible for the vast majority of Americans to eat healthily and affordably.

From rising compulsory schooling ages to rising minimum wages, we treat teens like toddlers and separate them from the genuine adult world they will soon join. Maybe we should give teenagers the freedom and opportunity to create their own scripts and witness the remarkable things they will do.

Ideologically, women and men should receive the same pay. Not all women do the same job nor do they work the same hours. The reality is that a large proportion of women prefer a better work-life balance. The choices that women make are, on the whole, very different from those of men. This means that outcomes are equally very different. 

Western intellectuals have long had a habit of lauding socialist experiments as long as they were in their prime, only to disown them later, now claiming that they were never “really” socialist to begin with.

New research published by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that more than 90 percent of the 3.6 million non-homeless that had previously been classified as living in extreme poverty were misclassified.