In the world of food, where free range and organic are idolized, farmers remain caged in by big business and government aid. The United...

In December of 2016, Amazon announced a new, physical retail store in Seattle, WA to enthusiastic but limited fanfare. The store – a...

The United States is in a unique political moment. Today, Republicans and Democrats are more divided along ideological lines than in any...

The Texas Rangers are a baseball franchise whose identity is inseparable from politics. The Rangers were a tool for an American...

On New Year’s Day, New York’s celebrated Second Avenue Subway opened to great fanfare, concluding a tortured, century-long history of...

Across major American cities, residents are facing the high costs of a growing housing crisis. While zoning regulations and affordable...

On December 20, 1951, the United States switched on the first peaceful nuclear power reactor the world had ever seen: Experimental...

On July 9, 2009, Chris Young was shot in the neck with a .22 caliber pistol. Surprisingly, in a nation plagued by urban violence, this...

The ubiquity of American products abroad is hardly surprising. From Ray Bans to Nikes to Chevys, the marketplace today is truly global...

A patchwork of federal, state, and local laws sets the minimum wages in the United States. The federal minimum wage acts as the bottom...

The days of a union-dominated working class are over: Union members now make up less than 11 percent of the US workforce, down from 35...

In 2015, various US food stores including Whole Foods, Wal-Mart, and Olive Garden, were implicated in a scandal. An AP investigation...

On January 11, 2016, labor unions watched the Supreme Court hear a case that could decide the fate of collective bargaining. Friedrichs...

In 1962, leading libertarian economist Milton Friedman published Capitalism and Freedom, a treatise on the value of free markets for a...

Aristotle famously began the Nicomachean Ethics with a declaration: “Every art and every investigation, and likewise every practical...

In 2015, Malcolm Bird accidentally cut his one-year-old daughter’s finger with a nail clipper and brought her to the local emergency room...

The great curse of being a US federal budget-watcher is that it is nearly impossible to overstate the severity of the path the country is...

Apple. Google. Microsoft. Facebook. Twitter. Uber. Tesla. Netflix. eBay. Intel. On February 7th, over 100 American companies co-signed...

Almost everyone today can remember the 2008 financial crisis. Over the course of a very short time, over $10 trillion in assets were...

There’s no denying that the US education system is trigger-happy when it comes to passing out suspensions. According to some reports, 1...