Imagine a day without capitalism.

You wake up to a decently sized apartment, just suited to fit your needs. Housing is a human right, after all, but penthouses aren’t. But how can you complain? You barely have bills. Food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses. They’re common goods.

Those are some of the bold thought experiments of the Democratic Socialists of America, which—in a manner consistent with the imaginings of children—pose more questions than they resolve.

For example, if “comfortable” housing is a right, who defines what constitutes comfort? Can that be quantified or calculated, and, if it can’t, how can it be guaranteed?

Those practical oversights, translated into the language of a world where scarcity exists, typically mean long wait lines, shortages, and fewer options for goods. But the deeper—and, I would argue, more devastating—cost of socialism is not found in the bureaucratic inefficiencies it creates, but in the innovations it will never inspire.

Treating industries as “common goods” rather than for-profit businesses might sound good on paper. In the minds of many young Americans, profit is the source of social inequalities and economic woes, the reason behind high healthcare and grocery prices.

The assumption is that private business models carry a dangerous incentive to maximize profits, which, as Zohran Mamdani recently put it, leaves consumers “priced out of dignity.”

But the incentives of capitalism aren’t as misaligned with human dignity as Gen-Z has been led to believe. Business owners must also win your dollar, motivating them to make their products faster, better, and cheaper than their competitors. In a free and competitive market, the pursuit of profit isn’t a path to lower living standards.

On the contrary, a free market helps improve living standards and prosperity by encouraging business owners to make faster, cheaper, and better products. In other words, a free market encourages something crucial for prosperity: innovation.

The sheer scale of our modern abundance and prosperity is a blip on the historical record that would have been inconceivable to a medieval peasant. Many of the modern luxuries we enjoy are the result of innovation drastically improving living standards over generations: shorter workweeks, labor-saving technologies, household appliances, cars, air conditioning, and modern healthcare—just to name a few.

The visionaries behind those inventions didn’t have to rely on a central planner to decide whether their ideas should or shouldn’t be produced. They were free to experiment, take risks and shoulder losses, using market signals such as prices, profits, and loss to determine how much or how little to produce.

Conservatives agree that people should be free to enjoy the beauty of life without being weighed down by bills. But that is precisely why we should build an economic system that fosters growth and innovation that can, for example, replace the expensive and slow bus with a cheap high-speed train, giving you more weekends with your family in a different city.

The innovation fueled by a free market gives ordinary Americans what central planning never can: cheaper goods, better services, and more choices. Turning critical industries into “common goods” is a surefire way to strip the economy of the incentives that make them good in the first place.

If socialists want higher living standards and prosperity, they should be fighting for more business—not less.

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Sacha Baron Cohen is a big, fat, fascist fan of censorship, and now his new "Ali G" movie has lost its expected robust theatrical rollout.

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During the opening monologue of his Sunday broadcast, conservative talker and Fox News Channel host Mark Levin speculated on why many Democrat candidates haven't been upfront about their policy stances as the November election approaches.

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A year ago, Canada’s Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree admitted, in a bombshell recording with a gun owner, that the Liberal government’s “assault-style firearm” ban and confiscation program isn’t driven by public safety or gun crime concerns but by campaign promises and pressure from the Province of Quebec.

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A lot of has changed for the better in the Nation’s Capital since Donald Trump returned to the White House. But the recent arrest of a young National Guardsman for an apparently harmless breach of D.C.’s constitutionally questionable gun control regime shows the District still retains its longstanding anti-gun streak. 

The half-sister of leftist Muslim U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) has reportedly said their family has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, despite her brother denying it.

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A federal judge nominated to the bench by Barack Obama has blocked DHS from deporting Dominican national Oscar Belgal.

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Former U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl died Sept. 16 at the age of 84.

But there is one part of his legacy that is particularly meaningful to me: Jon Kyl was one of the most important champions of crime victims’ rights in America.

Kyl understood something fundamental about crime victims. They are thrust into a relationship with the criminal justice system they never asked for. Suddenly their lives can revolve around prosecutors, defense attorneys, court hearings, plea agreements, sentencing proceedings and parole hearings.

Those accused of crimes have powerful protections under the U.S. Constitution—and they should. The rights to counsel, to confront witnesses, against self-incrimination and double jeopardy, and to due process and a speedy and public trial are fundamental American protections.

But the Constitution contains no comparable federal bill of rights for the person against whom the crime was committed.

Kyl wanted to change that.

Beginning in 1996, the conservative Republican from Arizona joined with liberal Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California in an effort to amend the Constitution to guarantee meaningful rights to crime victims. For years, they worked together on what became a remarkably bipartisan cause.

They could not muster the two-thirds vote required for a constitutional amendment. But they didn’t quit.

In 2004, Kyl and Feinstein helped enact the federal Crime Victims’ Rights Act, establishing enforceable rights for victims in federal cases, including reasonable protection, notice and attendance at proceedings, the opportunity to be heard, restitution, and treatment with fairness and respect for their dignity and privacy.

It was a major advance. But a federal statute was not the same thing as a constitutional guarantee. Kyl never lost sight of that.

In 2008, California voters overwhelmingly approved Marsy’s Law, placing meaningful and enforceable victims’ rights into our state constitution.

Marsy’s Law was named for Marsalee “Marsy” Nicholas, a 21-year-old UC Santa Barbara student murdered by her former boyfriend in 1983. Days later, her mother encountered the accused killer in a grocery store. The family had not been told he had been released on bail.

Marsy’s brother, Dr. Henry Nicholas, founder and chairman of Marsy’s Law for All, turned that experience into a campaign to ensure other victims would have rights of their own.

In 2014, Dr. Nicholas brought me into the Marsy’s Law cause. I would spend nearly seven years helping lead the national effort, building on California’s success across the country.

State after state amended its constitution to guarantee victims’ rights, including notice of proceedings, the right to be present and heard, reasonable protection from the accused, notice of an offender’s release, restitution, dignity and privacy—and, critically, the ability to assert those rights when they are violated.

That success crossed political lines. Just as Kyl and Feinstein had demonstrated in Washington, protecting crime victims could bring together people who disagreed about plenty of other things.

Today, nearly 130 million Americans live in the 12 states where Marsy’s Law is enshrined in the state constitution, giving them rights and protections should they become victims of crime.

The movement continues. This November, Tennessee voters can add their state to that list.

But Jon Kyl understood that these rights belong in the U.S. Constitution. A victim’s constitutional rights shouldn’t depend on which side of a state line the crime occurred. These rights should belong to every American.

When I joined Marsy’s Law, Kyl reached out to me and was generous with his time. He brought me up to speed on everything that had taken place with the victims’ rights movement. His enthusiasm that Dr. Nicholas was taking the effort national was something to see.

We stayed in touch periodically after that. Whenever we needed him to call or meet with a leader in a state considering victims’ rights, Kyl was there. And he wasn’t just lending his name. He could sit down with policymakers and get into the details. He knew his stuff.

To me, he was a living reminder that seemingly ordinary people can do extraordinary things. Humility, optimism, compassion and a strong sense of justice all come to mind when I think about him.

Earlier this year, after learning of his illness, I joined 25 other victims’ rights advocates in a letter thanking him for what he had done. We were fortunate to tell him while he was still with us: “Victims are now informed, present, and heard because of you.”

I know this is a difficult time for the Kyl family. I hope they know his legacy lives on, especially in his work looking out for victims of crime.

Nearly three decades ago, Jon Kyl said America needed “a new definition of justice—one that includes the victim.”

He helped give us one.

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A new analysis from the University of Wyoming challenges The Trace's use of ATF crime gun data to suggest wrongdoing by Turner's Outdoorsman.

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A Nigel Farage government will shut down the nation's asylum system altogether, as the Reform UK leader pleaded for Britain to return to normality, with functioning borders and a government that puts its own people first.

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‘This is a long-overdue win for law-abiding Americans’