The Food and Drug Administration’s recently announced proposal to ban menthol cigarettes is ill advised on multiple fronts. Not only does this proposal make no economic sense but it also fails to recognize a simple fact: People in a free society should be free to choose their poison. The ...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 841,000 Americans have died of drug overdoses since 1999. In 2019 alone, 49,860 people were killed by opioid-related overdoses — 70.6 percent of all drug overdose deaths. This was before COVID-19, which almost certainly accelerated ...
When workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, won their April 2022 union election, they also scored a major victory for the broader labor movement. Winning a union election is unnecessarily difficult, and this first union election win for U.S. Amazon workers could be a ...
Our lives are such a bundle of complications that it is difficult to remember the power of kindness. We are all busy, and we all have our own pressures, challenges and even demons. It is all too easy to descend entirely into ourselves. We all need to step back and remind ourselves that we can ...
Their president is the most unpopular in the history of modern polling. Gas prices on their watch are about to hit $5 a gallon nationwide — and then keep rising. Inflation is higher than it has been in 40 years, and shoppers are being forced to cut back on basics. At the southern border, ...
It’s been clear for months now that major changes would be needed to tech antitrust legislation if it was ever going to stand a shot on the Senate floor. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee called for changes. Democrats off committee called for changes. Even the bill’s primary ...
