David S. D'Amato

Job-guarantee proposals have dominated headlines of late, with high-profile politicians such as Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) advancing the policy.

For years a consistent refrain in American politics has bewailed an increasingly polarized political atmosphere.

Opponents of education choice like to prophesize doom when the subject is raised for debate.

The Niskanen Center’s Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles have been making the rounds of late, promoting their new book The Captured Economy.

America is much less the land of the free than it is the land where everything is illegal, where, as John Stossel pointed out in 2012, “No one can know what is legal.”

When collectivization through the state purports and desires to serve the poor and less fortunate, it will, as a matter of practice, be operated in the interests of the rich and powerful.

A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office revealed several disturbing, interrelated trends in U.S. public education.

Every American learns in grade school of the three-part structure of the U.S. government: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

The prevailing political discourse seems to be consumed with the bromides of social justice, carefully tended by political and intellectual classes claiming special knowledge of its demands.

Americans must face up to the facts: politics has most likely blinded them, obscuring their view of significant facts and all but blacking out the portion of their brains devoted to critical thinking.

Just how overregulated are America’s banks?

For early progressives the state was the true embodiment of the social will, the thinking, acting entity of which individual people are only one part.

A man’s home, as the saying goes, is his castle. For socialists and even many progressives, however, private property is an obstacle to be overcome, the source of the capitalist’s power to exploit, a privilege that must yield to broader social justice concerns.