Health

The Gore and Bradley plans to "fix" health care will do nothing of the sort. Neither addresses the key problem of the current system.

The Clinton administration wasn't content with blowing up a pharmacy in the Sudan; now it wants to blow up hundreds of them on the web.

Should skydiving and other risky practices be permitted or banned? Tibor Machan argues that only market exchange on private property provides a coherent answer. 

The really terrifying prospect is having to live a life entirely "naturally." 

An attack on property rights that endangers liberty itself. (Article by Gregory Bresiger)

As the bureaucrats pursue their Draconian war on drugs, the Clinton administration is conspiring with the pharmaceutical industry to provide drugs at taxpayer expense. Under the guise of expanding Medicare—already a massive wealth transfer from young to old—prescription drugs will be included among the benefits the feds use to further rope senior citizens into the government orbit.

America's "War on Drugs" has become primarily a war on marijuana smokers. Federal data released this year reveals almost half of all drug arrests are for marijuana, and that approximately one in seven drug prisoners is now behind bars for marijuana offenses. Research reported by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) in June found that 59,300 Americans are sitting behind bars on marijuana charges.

Nowadays every frontier of human achievement faces a regulatory barrier that must be crossed. Those regulatory barriers are often prompted by interest group fears based more in political theory than reality. In particular, biotechnology is one of the more contested and feared additions to man's arsenal of control over his environment.

Former National Football League star Walter Payton has been stricken by a rare liver disease and needs a transplant in order to live. Unfortunately, the demand for available organs far outstrips the supply, and several thousand Americans this year will die waiting for those life-saving organs.

The failure of a federal subsidy.