On this week’s episode of Borderless, Vale Sloane is joined by Kat Murti. She is the co-founder of Feminists for Liberty, the co-leader of the Washington D.C. chapter of the Ladies of Liberty Alliance, and the communications consultant for the international organization, while also working for the Students for Sensible Drug Policy. Murti is a champion for classical liberal and feminist ideals, and she outlines the powerful impact that all of these organizations have made on improving the...

This week on Borderless, Vale Sloane is joined by Dr. Roberto Salinas-León, director of Atlas Network’s Center for Latin America. With the recent election of a socialist president in Chile and troubling developments in Mexico, threats to liberalism abound in Latin America. What do these sea changes really mean for human freedom? Will Chile's impressive gains against poverty and towards better lives for all be reversed? How is the Center for Latin America responding? That’s what Dr. Salinas...

This week on Borderless, Charles Mitchell, president and CEO of Atlas Network's Pennsylvania-based partner Commonwealth Foundation, joins host Vale Sloane to discuss how his organization is both expanding educational choice and ensuring the integrity of the bounds on government power. In 2021, after Governor Tom Wolf continued to extend his COVID-19 emergency declarations and powers, Commonwealth Foundation supported a successful ballot initiative to limit the emergency powers of the...

In this special live-premier episode of Borderless, Nataliya Melnyk, communications director at Bendukidze Free Market Center, a Kyiv, Ukraine-based Atlas Network partner, joins host Vale Sloane to discuss the ongoing invasion of her country by Vladimir Putin. Melnyk has chosen to remain inside Ukraine despite the Kremlin’s advance, offering her an up-close-and-personal view of the progression of the war and its effects on Ukraine and its people. She shares with Borderless viewers why it is...

This week on Borderless, Vale Sloane is joined by Kateryna Shapovalenko, project manager at EasyBusiness, an Atlas Network partner based in Kyiv, Ukraine. While Shapovalenko has relocated to the United States since the Kremlin’s invasion of her country, she and her organization continue to work for better government policies that will result in more economic choices and better lives for their fellow Ukrainians. It was in part because of EasyBusiness’s efforts that the Ukrainian government...

Why did gross domestic product suddenly start to skyrocket just a few hundred years ago after centuries of only gradual, marginal improvements? Dr. Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics, History, English, and Communication at University of Illinois at Chicago, has written extensively on why it was not the accumulation of capital that caused what she has dubbed "The Great Enrichment"—and eventually enabled the Industrial Revolution—but rather the spread of the great...

 In this special episode of Borderless, Executive Vice President Dr. Tom G. Palmer joins host Vale Sloane to talk about how the Atlas Network Ukraine Freedom Fund is making a difference on the ground. It's more than just money, however—Atlas Network's long history of building relationships in Ukraine and across Europe have enabled Dr. Palmer and the UFF to have an outsized impact. By working closely with and listening to nine partner organizations in the country, Atlas Network has been able...

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In this episode of Borderless, Vale sits down with Colin Craig, president of SecondStreet.org. SecondStreet.org is an Atlas Network partner dedicated to exploring how government policies impact the lives of everyday Canadians. Recently, they have focused on the negative side effects of Canada's single-payer healthcare system. Craig mentions that this structure leads to significant government control over patients lives in Canada and a government monopoly over healthcare services. Inefficiency...

In this episode of Borderless, host Vale Sloane sits down with Matt Warner, president of Atlas Network, and Dr. Tom Palmer, vice president of international programs, to discuss their new book Development with Dignity. Available now from Routledge publishers, this book examines how the principles of human dignity and individual agency are central to international development and the effort to end poverty. The authors discuss how starting with dignity helps people improve both their own lives...

 What happens when the government that's supposed to defend your rights is the one violating them? That's where Institute for Justice comes in. Robert McNamara, a senior attorney at Institute for Justice, joins this episode of Borderless to talk with host Vale Sloane about his and his organization's work to defend the rights of Americans in court. One area of particular concern for Institute for Justice is eminent domain abuse. This legal doctrine allows the government to require private...

 "Emergent order" sounds like a complicated concept, but it's essential to understanding why freedom leads to more prosperity than authoritarianism. Luckily, this week's episode of Borderless breaks down and explains this key idea. Stand Together's Neil Chilson joined Vale Sloane in-studio to talk about emergent order, what it is, why it matters, and why Neil wrote a book about it. Getting Out of Control celebrates the power of individuals to improve society, and encourages an approach that...

What's next for Chile after the recent presidential runoff election? What will the president-elect's top priorities be? The election of far-left candidate Gabriel Boric does not bode well for the economic well-being of Chile's people, says Axel Kaiser, a Chilean writer, lawyer, political scientist, and member of the Mont Pelerin Society. He joins Borderless host Vale Sloane this week to talk about why he has written that Boric's policies will likely reverse the impressive gains in prosperity...

 Free-market process are better at protecting the environment than top-down solutions! Find out how in this episode of Borderless as Vale Sloane talks market environmentalism with Chris Barnard of the American Conservation Coalition. Leveraging property rights, market incentives, and supply and demand have shown to be effective in saving endangered species and key habitats, but few people think of capitalism when they hear "environmentalism." Barnard and his organization are working to...

This week on Borderless, join our host Vale Sloane as he sits down with Justine Lee of Living Room Conversations and Making America Dinner Again. Through these organizations, her mission is to bring together Americans of every background and political persuasion in low-stakes environments like a meal or a home. She's found that face-to-face conversations, in contrast to faceless internet interactions, have the power to build understanding and common ground between Americans, even when points...

In this episode of Borderless, Libertas Institute's Michael Melendez joins Vale Sloane to discuss his organization's 2021 Templeton Freedom Award finalist project to encourage the implementation of the U.S.'s broadest regulatory sandbox. This system allows entrepreneurs, small businesses, and even large corporations to apply for a temporary exemption from many overly burdensome regulations, which encourages lawmakers to revisit and potentially repeal bad or outdated rules. Regulation often...

In this episode of Borderless, Vale Sloane is joined by Bruce Vaillant of Centre for Development and Enterprises Great Lakes to discuss their 2021 Templeton Freedom Award finalist project to break down the barriers to international trade that were helping keep Burundi in poverty. Now it's cheaper, easier, and safer for entrepreneurs, including women, to take their goods to market. In order to trade across borders, Burundians had to either pay exorbitant fees and deal with overbearing...

In this episode of Borderless, Vale Sloane is joined by Jessi Troyan of Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy to talk about her organization's Templeton Freedom Award finalist project, which brought educational choice and hope for a more prosperous future to West Virginia through educational savings accounts.

 In this episode of Borderless, Vale Sloane sits down with renowned economist Dr. Levy-Carciente and Dr. Salinas-León of Atlas Network's Center for Latin America to discuss the forthcoming Latin America Bureaucracy Index and what it means for businesses, entrepreneurs, and everyday people. Dr. Levy led the project in conjunction with Center for Latin America, Cedice Libertad, and several other Atlas Network partners. The index will be published at the launch event on November 9, 2021.

In this episode of Borderless, Vale Sloane is joined by Mark Littlewood of Institute of Economic Affairs to talk about his organization's Templeton Freedom Award finalist project, which ensured the United Kingdom took a decidedly free-trade approach to Brexit negotiations in line with IEA's "Plan A+."

In this special World Poverty Day episode of Borderless, our host Vale Sloane is joined by Atlas Network President Matt Warner to discuss how their partners are working to eliminate global poverty and how Atlas Network is helping them do it.

Join us for the second episode of Borderless! Vale Sloane is joined by Lakshmi Goyal of Centre for Civil Society to talk about her organization's Templeton Freedom Award nominated-project to protect the right to earn a livelihood and escape poverty for millions of India's street vendors.

The first episode of Borderless is live! Vale Solane talks with Clark Neily from the Cato Institute about protecting rights and ensuring accountability within the U.S. criminal justice system, especially by removing the doctrine of qualified immunity.