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This week, Paul Krugman of The New York Times posited a theory: Red states cause depression and suicide. In a column titled “America’s Red State Death Trip,” Krugman wrote: “In 1990, today’s red and blue states had almost the same life expectancy. Since then, however, life expectancy in Clinton states has risen more or less…

Imagine strapping your infant child into a car seat, only to see his body suddenly jerk forward or backward, arms and legs stiffening, and eyes rolling back in the head. Alarm quickly turns to panic, which turns to frantic weaving through traffic to get to the hospital. Within minutes of arriving, the child is rushed…

Politics is like mud wrestling. No one comes out clean. And as recent comments by Senior Judge Paul Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia show, that holds especially true for judges. Friedman jumped into the political mud pit on Wednesday to wrestle President Donald Trump, saying that Trump’s criticism of…

A recent survey conducted by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and polled by YouGov, a research and data firm, found that 70% of millennials are likely to vote socialist and that 1 in 3 millennials saw communism as “favorable.” Let’s examine this tragic vision in light of the Fraser Institute’s recently released annual study…

The collapse of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago was one of the most momentous days in history.  It represented the last gasp of a wicked regime that destroyed the lives of millions, and a new beginning for the many people held under the thumb of communism for generations. It was a triumph of freedom…

As young Americans are losing an understanding of civics and American history, they increasingly embrace socialism. An annual poll conducted for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation again found that the younger generations have a far sunnier view of socialism and communism than their elders. Some of the findings from the YouGov survey, released Oct….

Multiple forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to fail. Russia and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal communism. Eastern Europe still suffers after decades of Soviet-imposed socialist chaos. Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea, and Venezuela are unfree, poor, and failed states. Baathism—a synonym for pan-Arabic socialism—ruined the postwar Middle…

Two congressman are pushing proposals to change Social Security benefits for workers who retired with a pension from a government job but were covered only partially by Social Security during their careers. The current approach of the two lawmakers speaks volumes about the political difficulties associated with making even the tiniest, most commonsense reforms to…