US News Using isolation to prevent suicides in prison, makes it more likely people will attempt suicide. [Link] The US Supreme Court rules that civil asset forfeiture can violate the 8th Amendment. [Link] Texas will execute a possibly innocent man, Rodney Reed. The...
Milley: 'That mission is not yet complete' In an interview Sunday on ABC, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley predicted that US troops would stay in Afghanistan “for several more years,” the first such estimate offered since President Trump scrapped a...
The majority of U.S. military veterans say America's most recent wars were not worth fighting, according to the results of a recent Pew Research Center survey published ahead of Veterans Day. In addition to polling 1,087 former service members on their opinions of the...
The newfound openness of large numbers of Americans to socialism is, by now, a well-documented phenomenon. According to a Gallup poll from earlier this year, 43% of Americans now believe that some form of socialism would be a good thing, in contrast to 51% who are...
Scott talks to Tara Copp about her research on cancer rates among military veterans, particularly air force pilots, whose powerful radar systems may be a contributing factor to multiple types of cancers. Copp reminds us that causality is very difficult to establish in...
Ali Latifi talks about his reporting on the drone war in Afghanistan, the most drone-bombed country in the world. He tells us one of the most troubling facts about America's drone campaigns: that almost everyone who is killed in a drone strike gets labeled an "enemy...
On November 9, I participated in a Mises Institute event in Lake Jackson, Texas with Jeff Deist, Dan McAdams, Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell and Ron Paul. (Ain't that something?) Jeff asked me to speak on "Propaganda and the 2020 Foreign Policy Debate." I was first:...
Check out this great article about BringOurTroopsHome.us and the great event they're holding next week in D.C.. I beg any and all Iraq and Afghan war vets in the Institute audience who can possibly attend to do so. The opportunity we have to truly change the narrative...
84 Minutes A Couple F Bombs Pete invited Gene Epstein to return to the show to discuss his November 5th, Soho Forum debate, with Professor of socialist economics, Richard Wolff. They discuss some of Wolff's arguments in favor of the debate resolution, "Socialism is...
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