Beto O'Rourke is taking flak from other Democratic presidential contenders for supporting mass confiscation of military-style rifles, a proposal several of them view as an impractical campaign gimmick. Although they are right about that, all the Democratic candidates...

Student loan debt keeps growing. There is a better solution than the ones politicians offer, which stick the taxpayer or the loan lenders with the whole bill. It's called an "income share agreement." Investors give money to a college, and the college then gives a free...

Here's an excerpt, though you can read the whole thing here: Two University of Connecticut students are being prosecuted for "ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race," according to the Washington Post. If convicted, they could...

In a Sunday morning tweet that was, at first glance, most notable for how President Donald Trump had misspelled his defense secretary's last name, the president proclaimed that "USA soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zones. We have secured the Oil. Bringing...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is at it again, requesting on Monday that California Attorney General Xavier Becerra investigate possible price-fixing by California's major oil and gas companies. The request comes after the release of a new report from the California...

The state of Tennessee last year put into place regulations limiting and controlling the duration and dosages of opioid painkillers that doctors could legally prescribe, all in the name of fighting addiction. Yet now the state is seeing a new record in deaths due to...

Harvard University students have started a petition denouncing the campus newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, and calling on its staff to apologize. What did the Crimson do wrong? Absolutely nothing. Last month, campus-affiliated protesters held an event calling for the...

Elizabeth Warren has finally finished spending all the fake money she intends to raise from her wealth tax, a policy that is unlikely to be enacted, and, were it somehow to become law, would almost certainly raise substantially less money than she claims.  The latest...

Massachusetts is taking the fight against nasty words to the next level with a new state bill that would ban the use of the word bitch in certain contexts. State Rep. Daniel Hunt (D–Boston) has put forward H. 3719 that would prohibit the use of the big, bad b-word...

Fifteen states don't want you to try Sam Adams' new "extreme" beer. In fact, they make it a crime to sell it. On October 15, Samuel Adams, the Boston-based brewing company, debuted this year's iteration of its Utopias "extreme beer." In addition to carrying the...