In 2016, Bernie Sanders challenged Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary with a long-shot bid from the far-left flank. Now, many of his ideas that were once considered radical are becoming mainstream, with 70 percent of Democratic presidential candidates supporting his Medicare-for-all platform. In this year’s primary, the near total proliferation of public healthcare platforms […]
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Pay for Success
Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once remarked, “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” Today, on both the left and right, inefficiency of government policies is all but taken for granted. Many political stances are based on the idea that there is little the […]