Jon Miltimore

Sweden—Once Mocked for Its COVID Strategy—Now Has One of the Lowest COVID Mortality Rates in Europe

Early in the coronavirus pandemic, I asked a simple question. Could Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the coronavirus actually work? Unlike…

4 years ago

The Results of St. Paul’s Rent Control Experiment Are In – and They’re Disastrous

In November, FEE Policy Correspondent Brad Polumbo wrote about a new policy in St. Paul, Minnesota which stood to implement…

4 years ago

Al Gore’s 2009 Warning on Vanishing Polar Ice and the Perils of Censoring ‘Misinformation’

While speaking at a climate change summit in Denmark in 2009, former Vice President Al Gore made an alarming statement.…

4 years ago

The CDC Changed Its COVID Risk Formula. The Results Are Stunning

On Feb. 25, the CDC made its expected announcement that it was updating its framework to monitor and contain COVID-19.…

4 years ago

The 3 Traits Warren Buffett Says He Looks for in an Employee

From time to time I speak to young professionals trying to make their mark on the world in politics, academia,…

4 years ago

‘Our Fight Is Against Capitalism’ and ‘the Patriarchy,’ Says Union Boss Leading Teachers Strike

Minneapolis teachers were striking for a fourth consecutive day Friday on bridges and overpasses throughout the city. Some 4,500 members…

4 years ago

A Holocaust Survivor Warned Americans about Blindly Supporting the War on COVID. We Didn’t Listen

Vera Sharav was three and a half years old when her family was chased from their Romanian home in 1940.…

4 years ago

Ukraine Grants Citizens the Right to Bear Arms—Hours Before Putin’s Invasion

Russian soldiers flooded into Ukraine Thursday under orders from President Vladimir Putin, threatening to obliterate a peace that has existed…

4 years ago

Why Frackers Are Returning to Abandoned Oil Patches in Droves

Less than two years after the price of oil briefly plummeted to roughly negative $37 a barrel, an oil boom…

4 years ago

Did Justin Trudeau’s Financial Crackdown Really Spark a Bank Run in Canada?

Canada’s federal government announced on Monday it was directing banks and other financial institutions to cease doing business with those…

4 years ago

Justin Trudeau Said He Admired China’s Dictatorship. Canadians Should Have Believed Him

At a “ladies night” fundraiser in Toronto in 2013, an up-and-coming politician was asked which nation’s administration he admired most…

4 years ago

6 Things We Know about the CIA’s Secret Mass Surveillance Program

The Central Intelligence Agency has secretly been running mass surveillance operations to collect data on Americans, according to a newly…

4 years ago

What Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter Teach Us about Power

For many years as a child I didn’t like to read much, but that changed when I was about 11.…

4 years ago

Harvard Medical Prof. Says the Government’s Pandemic Response ‘Failed Miserably,’ Ignored Consequences of Its Policies

Dr. Stefanos Kales, a professor of medicine at Harvard University, has joined the chorus of voices who are saying the…

4 years ago

European Nations Are Dismantling the COVID State Before Our Eyes. Will the US Follow?

Denmark took the lead in Europe this week, scrapping virtually all pandemic restrictions as the Scandinavian country of 5 million…

4 years ago