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Free speech for Facebook as Zuckerberg fires the fact checkers
Free speech comes to Facebook, Instagram and Threads as Marc Zuckerberg fires biased fact checkers, reprograms algorithms and moves content moderation from California to Texas. WATCH NOW Share This Story, Choose Your…
Nationwide campus cleanup is a huge success
Over the course of the fall 2024 semester, CFACT campus representatives have been hard at work organizing clean up initiatives both on and off campus throughout the country. Good stewardship of the land and nature is a core…
China’s Drunken Population Policies
However much you plan and pray, Alas, alack, tant pis, oy vey, Now — heretofore — til Judgment Day, The drunken driver has the right of way. ~Ethan Coen What principle should guide a wife and husband concerning the number of…
Biden Expanded Executive Power to Kill the US Steel-Nippon Merger
In one of his final acts as President, Joe Biden has blocked Nippon Steel’s acquisition of US Steel, citing national security concerns. This controversial decision, executed through executive action on January 3, 2025, has…
Time To Declassify Everything, Mr. President. Or Another Russiagate Is Inevitable.
By Robert Romano Following Congress’ certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election on Jan. 6, all eyes now turn towards Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration and most…
Grid battery cost issue storm looms in Massachusetts
Massachusetts just passed a law requiring the big utilities to buy a whopping 1,500 MW of batteries by this July. It should cost several billion dollars requiring immediate rate increases so it will be getting lots of…
Does Educational Philanthropy Harm Liberal Society? It’s Complicated
Philanthropic contributions are a quiet but integral part of American education funding. In 2016 (the most recent year for which good data are available), philanthropists contributed nearly $5 billion to US public schools,…
Debunking the Three Best Arguments for Tariffs
With President Trump’s return to office after the Biden interregnum, we can be sure of one thing: tariffs are going to be a major part of his policy. He has touted tariffs as revenue generators, as ways to bring back…
Why America Is in So Much Trouble
Shortly before Milton Friedman's death in 2006, I had the privilege of interviewing him over dinner in San Francisco. The last question I asked him was: What are the three things we have to do to make America more…
