Each year, many American adults will attempt the extremely difficult feat of quitting smoking. Many of them will fail, but at least they try. This can’t be said for the states that are still collecting billions of dollars in state…

Editor’s note: American Spectator writer Aram Bakshian Jr. died on Sept. 14. He contributed to the magazine for nearly 50 years.  Author’s note: Since the Great American Saloon Series has run dry due to the milksop nature of most Alternative…

Is any aspect of American life safe from President Joe Biden and his battalions of intrusive, dim-witted, federal bureaucrats?   COVID-19’s embers are not yet cold. Parents still scramble for baby formula. And now, tampons have gone scarce.   Rather than…

There’s something terrifying about a government so powerful that it can shut down your business overnight without even bothering to offer substantive arguments. Yet that’s what Food and Drug Administration bureaucrats just did to the e-cigarette company Juul. While Juul…

The FDA has taken it upon itself to liberate America’s youth from the blight of cigarette smoking. As has sadly become typical of its activities, the regulator has reached for the 20th-century policy playbook of taxes and bans. According to…