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Ride the Amtrak passenger train through lush Michigan landscapes from Chicago, Illinois to Detroit, Michigan.

^{J.D. Wong
May 23, 2025

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The Failure of Subsidizing AMTRAK and How to Make Passenger Trains Profitable Again

_{J.D. Wong
May 23, 2025

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We are publishing this paper volunteered by J.D. Wong, a Georgia businessman, that makes a strong, well-researched case that government subsidies for Amtrak should be terminated. In his opinion, only a couple of long distance train routes are potentially sustainable, and that a reliance on standard rail cars, rather than sleeper cars, is a business mistake that mainly reflects political influence. Read More ›

Piles of refined rare earth elements from mining activities: mining techniques, mineral refinement, aggregation of elements, industry procedures

^{Scott S. Powell
May 13, 2025

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How Trump Can Simultaneously Strengthen America’s Financials and Its National Security

_{Scott S. Powell
May 13, 2025

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As with the production of lithium and cobalt, which power electric vehicles, China also controls most of the global rare earth supply chain, including mining, processing, and refining. At present, the U.S. has only one operational rare earths mine. But we can't process heavy rare earths, so we send the mine's ore to China for processing. Read More ›

Mosaic ceiling of the Florence Baptistery, Italy

^{Scott S. Powell
April 21, 2025

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How Easter Transformed the World Like Nothing Else Ever Could

_{Scott S. Powell
April 21, 2025

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Across cultures throughout human history, people have sought to flee oppression and escape persecution. A recurring theme in Western literature and in modern classics such as Superman and Disney originals, which revolve around the struggle between good and evil, is the need and critical role for a rescuer or savior. Read More ›

Old Bible in library with magnifying glass

^{Scott S. Powell
April 1, 2024

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Easter Is the World’s Most Historically Verified Holiday

_{Scott S. Powell
April 1, 2024

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While there are skeptics of the biblical Jesus, there's far more reliable historical evidence for His life, teachings, miracles, death, and resurrection than for other leading historical figures of ancient times, such as literary greats Virgil and Horace and military kings like Alexander the Great. Read More ›

the interior metal manufacturing the view from the top

^{George F. Will
July 19, 2023

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George Will: Progressive Gloom Ignores a Marvelous Historical Economic Measure

_{George F. Will
July 19, 2023

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In “Life After Capitalism,” George Gilder, citing Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley in the Cato Institute’s volume “Superabundance,” writes that “between 1980 and 2022, workers have been able to buy some 300 percent more goods and services with their hours and minutes.” The secret sauce is applied knowledge. Read More ›

old man beggar begging you for help sitting at dirty slum. concept for poverty or hunger people,human rights,donate and charity for underprivileged children in third world

^{Steven J. Buri
May 20, 2022

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What Does Real Compassion for the Homeless Look Like?

_{Steven J. Buri
May 20, 2022

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Discovery Institute’s Fix Homelessness initiative offers a path forward for policymakers, the public, and those who recognize that the failed policies of the past are doomed to fail in the future. Here we focus on the true causes of the crisis. And, importantly, we focus on the inherent dignity of those suffering while offering solutions that help them realize their full potential as human beings. Read More ›

penny-farthing, high wheel retro bike on wood floor

^{Gale Pooley
August 1, 2021

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Bicycles on Sale: 95.4% Off

_{Gale Pooley
August 1, 2021

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In 1910 it took 66.4 hours to earn the money to buy a bicycle. Today it takes only three. The time price has fallen by 95.4 percent. You get 22 bicycles today for the time price of one in 1910. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
January 20, 2021

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Breaking: Stop CRT Legal Coalition Announced

_{Christopher Rufo
January 20, 2021

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The Center on Wealth & Poverty responds to President Biden doubling-down on critical race theory in the federal government. Read More ›

^{Benjamin Wiker
October 29, 2020

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History, Like Black Lives, Matters

_{Benjamin Wiker
October 29, 2020

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The means to addressing excessive force by police shouldn’t be those used by two of the most notoriously brutal political movements of the Left — the French Revolutionaries of the Terror — and the Right — modern Germany’s National Socialists. Read More ›

^{Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 14, 2020

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Liberalism and Its Discontents

_{Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 14, 2020

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In this webinar, Center on Wealth & Poverty Director Christopher Rufo speaks with Professor Patrick Deneen about his most recent book Why Liberalism Failed, the civil unrest sweeping the nation, and the upcoming election. Read More ›