Senator Carl Levin says that Facebook is exploiting a tax loophole in order to avoid paying taxes to the government. But Facebook is a textbook case of win-win-win: the company's creators get rich, society gets the benefit of an innovative communications platform, and the U.S. Treasury gets billions in new revenues.

The U.S. economy has been doing poorly for so long now that it's easy to get dispirited. But there are several reasons to think 2012 might be a good one for American economic performance.

Arthur Brooks and Jim Manzi are intellectual heirs to Hayek; they are admirably recapturing old truths handed down from America’s Founders and restating them for today’s generation.

George Gilder will present arguments from his new book, The Israel Test, at a forum sponsored by American.com

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The first issue of The American magazine under the leadership of new editor-in-chief Nick Schulz was released today.

A former senior editor of The American, Schulz helped launch the magazine and its online...

When any economy faces challenges, the first thing it should do is determine if it has any self-inflicted wounds, as those are the easiest to correct. The evidence is clear that the benefits of skilled immigration are high. The costs of bad immigration are also high. It is past time for the nation to stop shooting itself in the foot.

Durable jobs in sustainable enterprises are created by entrepreneurs and toughened by market competition. They are not created by government spending or coddled by political favoritism and never will be.

India's democratic institutions, freedom, and social capital rank it thirty places above its rival China in the 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index.