President Obama delivered a robust and even rousing speech in favor of what is still a rather generalized plan for increasing health care coverage by increasing government involvement in medical care – involvement that to date has tended to increase costs. To his credit, he included the idea o... More of this article

Mexico on Aug. 21 officially decriminalized possession and use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine and heroin. Specifically, a police search that turns up a half-gram of cocaine (about four lines) five grams of marijuana (about four cigarettes), 50 milligrams of heroin, 40 milligrams of methamphe... More of this article

Our current health insurance system, whereby most people get coverage through their employers, was not the result of careful design by certified experts but came about through something of an historical accident. During World War II the government instituted wage and price controls through much of t... More of this article