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Welcome to Cuba: Where Doctors Earn Less Than Taxi Drivers
In Cuba, taxi drivers earn far more than doctors, raking in more money in one day than a doctor will make in an entire month. The reason? Unlike most of the Cuban economy, taxi licenses are privately...
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Economic freedom increasing worldwide, but not in U.S.
The Heritage Foundation and Wall Street Journal recently released the 2016 Index of Economic Freedom. Despite modest gains in economic freedom worldwide, Americans have, for the eighth time in a...
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Standing with the oppressed during Captive Nations Week
President Eisenhower signed the first Captive Nations Week into law on July 17, 1959. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia. On July 17, 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued a proclamation declaring the...
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Cuba’s pioneers of capitalism: Marcus Lemonis goes to Havana
Although the Cuban people continue to suffer and struggle under the weight of communist rule, many have been encouraged by even the slightest of Raul Castro’s incremental changes toward private...
View ArticleReligion & Liberty: Fighting for totalitarianism’s victims
The unofficial theme for Religion & Liberty’s first issue in 2017 is despotism. In this issue, you’ll find stories from the Soviet Union, a close look into the North Korea regime and a...
View ArticleVideo: Margarita Mooney, how socialism warps the human heart
Of all the speeches at the Acton Institute’s 2018 annual dinner, perhaps the one that combined the greatest emotional impact and intellectual heft into the fewest minutes came from Margarita Mooney....
View ArticleCuba loosens restrictions on private businesses to battle COVID-19
Over the past decade, Cuba’s private sector has experienced slow-but-steady growth thanks to a mix of entrepreneurial grit and incremental policy changes. Although the Communist government continues to...
View ArticleCuba Libre: Protestors call for an end to communism and oppression
Cubans are taking to the streets over food shortages and outrageously high prices, calling for an end to the country’s communist regime with mass protests. “Cuban citizens have taken to the streets...
View ArticleThe crumbling façade of Cuban communism
It has become routine for Bernie Sanders and other self-described democratic socialists to praise Cuba for its high literacy rates and universal health care. More recently, Black Lives Matter released...
View ArticleFidel Castro’s Failed Paradise
Six decades after its celebrated communist revolution, Cuba remains a totem for America’s left. Yet the country is imploding into irrelevance. Fidel Castro is dead and Raul Castro is retired, but their...
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