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How the Woke Left Is Destroying Education

Bureaucracy and RegulationEducationProgressivismWorld History

05/01/2023Mises Media
Adherents of leftist dogma increasingly push the notion that teachers should be permitted to distract, confuse, or influence their students by discussing their personal beliefs, ideas, and private activities and choices in the classroom.
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Presidents Are Legally Immune for Their Most Dangerous Crimes

Legal SystemThe Police StateWar and Foreign Policy

05/01/2023Mises Media
Donald Trump legally pays hush money and prosecutors try to fashion a crime from it. However, if a president lies and thousands of people die, it is called foreign policy.
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It Hurts to Pay for Strained China-USA Relations

Big GovernmentU.S. EconomyWar and Foreign Policy

04/30/2023Mises Media
American politicians are beating war drums. They forget that bad relations are costly in many ways.
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Why Do Banks Still Fail?

The FedMoney and BanksU.S. History

04/29/2023Mises Media
Despite all of the supposed safeguards to prevent bank failures, banks still fail. Perhaps the so-called safeguards are causing much of the trouble.
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Do We Need a "National Divorce"? It's Not a New Idea

AntipoliticsDemocracySecessionU.S. History

04/29/2023Mises Media
We are hearing calls both from right and left for an amicable national divorce. In truth, the states were never "hitched" in the first place, at least not by any plausible definition of marriage.
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Equality Requires State Violence

CapitalismEconomic FreedomProgressivismSocialism

04/28/2023Mises Media
Although equality and "equity" are modern buzzwords, the only way to reach such a social nirvana is through violent means. Do we really want to go there?
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No, the Financial Crisis Is Not Over

Booms and BustsThe FedMoney and BanksU.S. Economy

04/28/2023Mises Media
As markets settle down after the last set of bank failures, political elites claim the crisis is behind us. But it is not over, not by a long shot.
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It’s Not Paranoid to Worry about a Central Bank Digital Currency

Money and BanksThe Police StateMoney and Banking

04/27/2023Mises Media
Contrary to Krugman, DeSantis and others warning about a CBDC aren’t being paranoid: they are simply drawing the obvious conclusions from history.
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Why the Dollar Still Beats the Euro and the Yuan

Global EconomyWar and Foreign Policy

04/27/2023Mises Media
Understanding what turns an ordinary currency into a global reserve currency can help us understand how the dollar could go into decline and give way to competing currencies.
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How Australia and New Zealand Helped Provoke and Escalate the First World War

PoliticsWar and Foreign PolicyWorld History

04/26/2023Mises Media
Most Western historians claim that World War I came about because of aggression from Germany and Austria-Hungary. However, Great Britain and its ANZAC allies were not innocent bystanders.
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