An enormous amount of the anti-poverty welfare state spending doesn't reach the poor, but gets absorbed by a bloated, jumbled, and overlapping bureauc...

Honest statists understand and acknowledge that you can’t have bigger government unless you target middle-income taxpayers with a value-added tax, o...

Polls show the Democratic Party has shifted increasingly farther away from the political center, reflecting a party of socialists more than capitalist...

Government thrives on our fears. When we're scared, politicians are always there, promising to protect us if we just give them more money and power....

Oliver Hartwich, an economist with the New Zealand Initiative, looks at the negative impact of the welfare state, which lefty Bernie Sanders cannot re...

Most politicians on the left today admit that socialism is inferior to market-based price systems, so their arguments against capitalism have shifted....

Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said she no longer can support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the 12-nation trade deal she touted as secretary of s...

As we get deeper into an election season, many politicians feel compelled to discuss how to deal with poverty and the growing American welfare state....

Leftists argue that gun control is the right policy because everyone gets disarmed. But if that’s true, how do terrorists keep getting weapons into...

Like Sisyphus pushing the rock up a hill, I keep trying to convince American leftists that growth--not redistribution--is the best way to help the poo...