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If Social Security must pay out more than it receives, which the trustees say will happen this year for the first time since 1982, the government cannot draw from other assets because doesn’t have any.

The good news is that state-level Democrats can rattle the single-payer saber in the hope of attracting progressive voters, but they can't do much about it.

If a new NAFTA doesn't improve intellectual property protection, it's not a better deal.

If South Dakota wins, all of us may confront tax demands from states and localities we've never visited and have nothing to do with.

The recent U.S. gas and oil boom will help fill any impending gaps in the global energy supply.

As state and federal lawmakers across the country grapple with how best to address health care costs for patients, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy yesterday convened an event in Lansing to discuss the various solutions being weighed in Michigan.

Democrats are doing their best to blame the current president for a problem that is entirely of their own making: Under ObamaCare the individual health insurance market began to collapse long before Trump became a factor.

Any notion that the Senate is the more deliberate and prudent of the two bodies of Congress should be discarded after today’s vote to misuse the Congressional Review Act to re-impose 1930s-era federal regulations on internet providers. 

The U.S. Senate will shortly face an attempt by Democrats to misuse the Congressional Review Act  to re-impose Title II regulations on internet service providers (ISPs).  And while this divisive, grandstanding approach will likely fail and even backfire, the ploy shows proponents’ determination to put the federal government back in charge of micromanaging the Internet.