Category: America Now

We’re already seeing signs that the tariff war started by President Trump is claiming its first victims. Famed American motorcycle maker Harley Davidson has stated that it will shift part of its production overseas in order to counter the effects of tariffs. Harley has been hit with a double whammy, as tariffs on steel imports […]

This past weekend, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders went out to dinner at The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, VA. Apparently her presence at the restaurant disturbed some of the restaurant’s employees, so they contacted the restaurant’s owner. The owner asked her employees whether she should ask Sanders to leave, to which they […]

If there’s one emotion that dominates any other in political discourse today, it’s envy. It’s important to distinguish between envy and jealousy. Jealousy is the state of being jealous, concerned with one’s relative lack of possessions, status, or value versus another person and wishing to achieve that same level of possessions, status, or value. Envy, […]

Celiac disease is an autoimmune condition in which consumption of gluten leads to damage in the small intestine. It is estimated that up to 1% of people suffer from the disease, with many of those undiagnosed. Up to 2.5 million Americans may be suffering from undiagnosed celiac disease, which could lead to long-term health problems. […]

Everyone is afraid, even just a little bit, but usually far more than we admit. We’re afraid of the unknown, of death, of failure, of realizing that we’ve been living incongruent to our deepest needs and wants in life. At our core we all have people we admire and wish to emulate, we all imagine […]

From its origins as merely a search engine, Google has grown to become one of the internet’s behemoths. Branching into email through the creation of Gmail over a decade ago, then moving into content creation and delivery through its purchase of YouTube, there is hardly anything that occurs online that doesn’t have Google watching over […]

In a disturbing new opinion, the Supreme Court overturned its decision in the 1992 Quill case and has now cleared the way for states to collect sales taxes on online purchases from out-of-state sellers. In Quill, the Court ruled that states could not collect sales taxes from out-of-state sellers unless those sellers had a physical […]

One of the most underappreciated and miraculous discoveries of humanity has been the price system. Because of it everyone eats better, resources are conserved, and large-scale economic coordination and planning takes place without any individual in charge. Prices Are Signals Every day people negotiate, conditions change, supply shocks happen, people’s preferences change. And every day […]

Swedish automaker Volvo has officially opened its first factory in the United States. The plant, in South Carolina, will begin producing cars this fall. Volvo, which is now owned by the Chinese automotive company Geely, has previously announced that it plans to eventually phase out internal combustion engines from its lineup by 2019. All of […]

The West Point graduate made famous last year for posting photos of himself wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt under his uniform at his 2016 graduation and writing “Communism Will Win” on the inside of his hat has now left the Army. Spenser Rapone, 26, a former Army Ranger and self-described revolutionary socialist, has now officially […]