What the McDonald’s chatter tells us about today’s politics

The costs of experimentation without accountability

Hyping emergencies to justify government spending

Entrepreneurs think they can convince Washington to leave them alone. History suggests they should think again.

The record suggests that wholehearted support of markets can be a winning electoral strategy—and good policy

We should be skeptical of grand plans couched in terms of economics

How a “war measure” became a permanent feature of American taxation—and the woman who fought back

We can’t moralize our way out of the iron parameters of supply and demand

Henry A. Wallace and the failed predictions of New Dealers

Antitrust prosecutions are back. But are they a good idea?

A new biography of Milton Friedman is not to be missed…but it gets things wrong

Author Ruta Sepetys has broken through with historical fiction for young readers about the evils of communism

The federal government established a collective farm in Arizona during the New Deal. It didn’t go well.