Peterson's innovative Patreon-YouTube-Twitter hybrid could apply competitive pressure to other platforms, incentivizing them to relax their censorship policies. Once again, the market is doing a better job at encouraging free speech than more regulation ever could.

In the American legal system, there is a maxim: the punishment must fit the crime. But when the government seizes homes over underpaid property taxes, this seems like a disproportionate punishment to receive.

America's Founders wisely recognized that our greatest threat isn’t Nabisco or Facebook. With the memory of an overreaching British monarch fresh in their minds, they sought to establish a republic that ensured government—not private business—was properly constrained.

Maybe Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet have more wealth than all of the infants, children, students, handicapped, prisoners, and postgrads combined. But you don’t need a PhD to figure out that’s not useful knowledge.

A new poll found that support for the minimum wage wilts when Americans—both Republicans and Democrats—are told of its full economic impact.

Even if climate change proceeds as the peer-reviewed literature assumes in the most pessimistic emissions scenarios, it will probably merely mean that people in the year 2100 will only be a lot richer than we are, as opposed to a whole lot richer.

Is it true that black citizens are more likely to be shot by white officers? To answer this question, we spent over 1,500 hours creating a national database of information about all officers involved in fatal police shootings in the US in 2015.

There's a reason corporations like Amazon and Walmart are now lobbying for a national $15 minimum wage.

It is easy enough to raise the minimum wage in economic booms. The tide is already pushing toward higher wages. The real problems occur during a recessionary period, as was recently evidenced in Spain.

The message is clear: parents, and especially disadvantaged parents, can’t be expected to effectively educate their children without the government’s help. Some researchers say this outright. Don't believe it.