Just a few years ago, very few people knew or discussed the Jones Act. Now everyone is talking about it. In a colossal but somewhat predictable fiasco, while Puerto Rico was being pummeled by Hur...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/123903-not-jonesing-for-the-jones-act.html
What is the relationship between freedom and government redistribution? Can the two coexist? Some believe there is a negative correlation between the two because free economies are often associat...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/122425-freedom-and-free-stuff-how-prudence-preserves-liberty.html
Education is the great equalizer. And a college education is one of the greatest ways to sharpen our unique gifts and talents before entering the workforce. President Joe Biden has proposed offer...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/122268-making-community-college-free-has-hidden-costs.html
It’s been barely a month since California reopened, and some counties are already beginning to reinstate mask mandates, even for fully vaccinated residents. This is but the latest pivot in Cali...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/122139-healing-the-broken-spirit-of-california.html
One of the biggest political upheavals in America over recent years has been a resurgence in economic nationalism. Given the amount of regulation with which it is burdened, America’s economy ca...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/122271-america-suffers-from-economic-nationalism.html
Debates between free-traders and protectionists routinely devolve into competing variations of class warfare – each claiming the cause of the “common man” against a wealthy and entrenched e...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/122080-against-trade-wars-as-class-wars.html
Mankind has an unquestionable obligation to protect the environment. As Pope Benedict XVI explained in the encyclical Caritas in Veritate, “the environment is God’s gift to everyone, and in o...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/121348-a-free-market-green-revolution.html
If anyone had any lingering doubts about where American economic policy is heading over the next four years, those should have been removed by President Joe Biden’s proposed $6 trillion budget...
The Senate passed the “American Rescue Plan” on Saturday without the Hyde Amendment, a legislative rider that protects taxpayers from having to fund abortion-on-demand. However, a prominent R...
As the end of the COVID-19 pandemic is in sight and we see some hope on the horizon, politicians in our nation’s capital are considering significant proposals to address the crises of the worki...
https://rlo.acton.org/archives/122292-we-cant-put-a-federal-price-tag-on-parenting.html