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The plot of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged can be briefly summed up as follows: the productive leaders and innovators of the country go on strike by disappearing from society to protest the cronyism, corruption, and oppressive…

As Stanford University’s president is forced to resign. Bob Dylan, an American singer-songwriter is generally regarded as one of the greatest songwriters ever and has been a major figure in…

This edition of the 5QT will be all over the place, or at least as all over the place as you can be with five (somewhat) quick things. For that, I’ll apologize, though I’m not sure why. But when you see the disparate roster…

Republicans and Democrats have been tripping over each other to tell voters how committed they are to making zero changes to Social Security and Medicare. Meanwhile, the Social Security and Medicare Trustees just confirmed…

Two Ohio Republican candidates have announced their candidacy to run for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District in 2024. U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09) is currently in that seat and is serving her 21st term in Congress. Former…

This week I have a question from Sergio from Brazil. He says (edited for clarity), I enjoy reading the articles from FEE. I live in Brazil, a socialist country with de facto tyranny where individual rights are not respected. I have…

Let’s call it the “Biden way”: when our president can’t get his policies through Congress, he tries to impose them in other ways. Just look at his student loan forgiveness plan, which faced a stiff Supreme Court challenge…

This Thursday, the Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing to advance the Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act. The brainchild of Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), its purported aim…

One of the advantages of being an oldster who still subscribes to a newspaper — four of them, actually! — is having the opportunity to scan obituaries. It’s a bit morbid. On the sad side, I’ve discovered long-ago friends…

by Mark Lee Dickson   President Donald J. Trump started 2023 with a post on Truth Social which drew the ire of many in the pro-life community. Trump wrote, “It wasn’t my fault that the Republicans didn’t live up to expectations . . .…