Will federal law enforcement agencies ever be forced to disclose their abuses of American citizens? The Supreme Court could answer that question in its decision on a potentially landmark case it heard last week regarding surveillance of Muslim communities in...
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TGIF: Racial Polarization Is Poison
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 26, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Be they "left" or "right," those who agitate for racial polarization seem to have no sense of the harm they could do to everyone in our society. As the wise Glenn Loury would say, they are playing with fire. By polarization, of any kind, I mean more than merely a...
The Ticking Time Bomb of Social Security
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Nov 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
At a time when President Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing to expand the breadth of entitlements to include free preschool and subsidized child care, little attention is given to the fact that the country’s biggest existing entitlement program—Social...
The Media Is Lying To You About Inflation
by William Anderson | Nov 23, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
With the recent rise in inflation—with subsequent increases in both consumer and producer price levels—one suspects that sooner or later people on the left either would downplay it or find a way to spin the bad news into something positive like an alchemist would want...
How I Said Phooey to College
by Jim Bovard | Nov 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Biden is tub-thumping for Congress to create new federal handouts to make college free for the vast majority of students. But as Ryan McMaken and other commentators on mises.org have pointed out, college is vastly overpriced and overrated nowadays. My view...
Anaheim Cops, ‘Like a Firing Squad,’ Execute Man Holding a Water Bottle
by Matt Agorist | Nov 22, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Last September, Brandon Lopez, 33, led police on a chase before crashing his car. He was suspected of driving a stolen vehicle, had several warrants out for his arrest, and was mentally ill. If he actually committed all the crimes of which he was accused, however,...
Syrian Christians were Quietly Warned Before the War
by Brad Hoff | Nov 20, 2021 | Blog, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Years ago I wrote about my first encounter with Syria as a young twenty-something year old fresh out of active duty service in the Marines: "My first visit to the region while desiring to study Arabic in 2004, just after completion of active duty service, and while...
TGIF: Rigged Political Language
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 19, 2021 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
It's an old trick: gain advantage over others by hiding one's meaning behind euphemisms and other forms of linguistic camouflage and misdirection. People do this in all walks of life, but politicians make careers of it. If they engage in straight talk at all, it is by...