The history of Jim Crow in the American South is a history one the Democratic Party would rather you forget.
by Sam Jacobs | Jun 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
The history of Jim Crow in the American South is a history one the Democratic Party would rather you forget.
by Bradley Thomas | Jun 18, 2020 | Featured Articles
Protests across the nation following the murder of George Floyd have inspired discussions beyond just police brutality, shining a spotlight on issues like “social justice” and “systemic racism.” But the divisive rhetoric on racism serves to distract from the statism....
by Tommy Raskin | Jun 18, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
When confronted with overwhelming evidence of a discriminatory state practice, a decent society responds in one of two ways: by trying to remove discrimination from the practice, or by scrapping the practice altogether. In the context of capital punishment, the...
by James Reilly | Jun 17, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Now that folks are coming around on the idea that law enforcement needs serious structural transformation in this country, let's make our argument a little more robust. The tiniest fraction of people get killed by police. It is not useful to think of this problem as...
by Per Bylund | Jun 17, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In a recent Mises Wire article, Jeff Deist commented on the squatting of Capitol Hill in Seattle. Contrasting Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s and Walter Block’s respective libertarian approaches to public property, Deist asked if the residents of the ‘CHAZ’ (Capitol Hill...
by John Kramer | Jun 17, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear eight separate cases that had presented opportunities to reconsider its doctrine of “qualified immunity.” That doctrine, created by the Supreme Court in 1982, holds that government officials can be held accountable for...
by Wendy McElroy | Jun 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
As a teenager I lived on the streets for as short a period as I could manage. This one experience brought more violence into my life than I care to remember, let alone describe, but it did not define me. I mention the experience for one reason; it is not ignorance or...
by Tate Fegley | Jun 16, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In a previous post, I discussed how fired police officers are often able to get their jobs back by appealing their termination to independent arbitration and thus how only time will tell if the officers involved in the arrest and death of George Floyd will remain...