Eric Shear

In recent years, Americans are paying renewed attention and having new discussions on race, racism, and discrimination.

Mike Fahner has farming in his blood. He was born to a potato farming family in Northern California, and in the late 1990s he founded Cedar Point Nursery—a strawberry plant farm—in Butte Valley, California. Today, Cedar Point Nursery thrives as one of the country’s biggest strawberry nurseries.

“Everybody watched it burn to ashes,” said Anmol Khindri. Khindri, a Kenosha, Wisconsin, resident, watched helplessly as his family business burned down. Rioters destroyed the business, a car dealership. “Nobody did nothing about it—nothing.”

Thumbing through my third-grade son’s school materials for a lesson on voting and democracy, I was struck by something that years, maybe even months, earlier would have shocked me, but now seems unfortunately a sign of the times. This booklet—remember, for elementary school students—wasn’t trying to evoke good feelings about how voting gives every American the right to direct how their government works. Instead, the booklet focused almost entirely on what populations didn’t initially have the vote in America. (And, strangely, it threw in a section on César Chávez’ unionization of farm workers.)

In 2013, Andy Johnson built a stock pond on his Wyoming property to provide safer, more reliable access to water for his small herd of cattle. The pro-liberty public interest law movement was born out of a need to combat the escalating creep of government into people’s lives.

Dave Breemer is a senior attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation who surfs in his free time and greets you with a cheerful “what’s up dude.”

Fighting legal battles against the government can feel like David versus Goliath.

What is actually like to deliver a Supreme Court oral argument?

It's hard to imagine what life was like back in January. I was planning a spring full of travel for work, and then a summer vacation in Italy. But that was a very different world than the one we live in now.

It must have pained Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. to utter those words when he testified before the House Ways and Means Committee in 1939.

When Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter coined the phrase “creative destruction,” he described it as “the essential fact about capitalism.”

Monday, January 27, 2020, was a public holiday in South Korea—a carry-over of Seollal, or the Lunar New Year.