Slovak Libertarians Reject the Euro Bailout

By Marian L. Tupy October 12, 2011

The Slovak parliament’s rejection of the European Financial Stability Facility and the collapse of the Slovak government on Tuesday shocked much of Europe. The vote’s outcome should not have come ...

Politics & Policy

Africa’s Zimbabwe Problem

By Brett D. Schaefer & Marian L. Tupy May 24, 2007

Zimbabwe was recently elected to chair the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), to the dismay of human-rights groups and nations, like the United States, that would like the United ...

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ANC Rising

By Marian L. Tupy April 27, 2007

Today marks 13 years since South Africa’s first multiracial elections brought the African National Congress to power. A country that once stood on the brink of a civil war is ...

Politics & Policy

Thatcher Again?

By By Patrick Basham & Marian L. Tupy September 16, 2005

The only certainty about Sunday’s German election is that it will likely bring to power the country’s first female leader. Angela Merkel, a physicist-turned-politician, will replace Gerhard Schroeder as chancellor. ...

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Minimum Interference

By Marian L. Tupy May 14, 2004

Hong Kong has been a beacon of free-market capitalism for decades. The Economic Freedom of the World report, published by the Fraser Institute in Canada, has ranked Hong Kong as ...

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Aiding Is Not Abetting

By Marian L. Tupy February 19, 2004

The British economist Peter Bauer once described foreign aid as “taxing poor people in rich countries and passing it on to rich people in poor countries.” The unambiguous failure of ...

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Make Way For More Tax Cuts

By Marian L. Tupy January 8, 2004

According to Howard Dean, “putting the U.S. fiscal house in order must be [based on] the repeal of the Bush tax cuts, and returning the tax code to rates that ...

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From The Old, Heralding in The New

By Marian L. Tupy March 3, 2003

“A week is a long time in politics,” former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said. For Vaclav Klaus, the newly elected Czech president, the last month must have felt like ...

Politics & Policy

From The Old, Heralding in The New

By Marian L. Tupy March 3, 2003

“A week is a long time in politics,” former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said. For Vaclav Klaus, the newly elected Czech president, the last month must have felt like ...