Who really owns history? 🏛️ When a museum takes an artifact from another civilization, displays it, and tells its story, does that make it theirs? The Rosetta Stone 🪨 is claimed by Egypt, but which Egypt: ancient, Ottoman, or modern?

We asked Diogo Costa of the Foundation for Economic Education why nations can't own property like people can, and why preserving something 🔒 doesn't make it yours.

📉 In 1820, 94% of humanity lived in extreme poverty. Today it's under 10%. That collapse wasn't planned by bureaucrats. It followed free markets, secure property rights, and billions of people joining the global division of labor. 🤝

🏛️ Deborah Palma traces the other side of the record too: Diocletian's price controls, mercantilism's manufactured scarcity, and the inflation that quietly taxes the poor first. 💸

A price can rise without anyone deciding to charge more. 📈 Washington State approved an average 22.2 percent increase for next year's individual health plans, and Connecticut approved increases of its own last week.

Countries compete for people, not only for goods. 🌍 A federal judge blocked a Homeland Security rule this week, one day before it was due to take effect, that would have replaced open-ended student and scholar visas with fixed terms needing renewal.

Who speaks for the taxpayer in a budget fight? 🤷 Nobody is assigned the job. The Congressional Budget Office reported last week that the federal government borrowed 2 trillion dollars in the first eleven months of this fiscal year.

🎒 Think back to school. The rows of desks. The bell. The permission slip to use the restroom. None of it was designed with children in mind.

It was designed in 1806 — by a kingdom that had just lost a war to Napoleon and decided it needed more obedient citizens. 🇵🇷 Then an American went to see the system for himself. He showed up during summer break. The schools were empty, and he funded it anyway. 📉