Mises Wire

America's healthcare system is now a government-dominated healthcare system. Let's stop pretending it's a market system.

Private entrepreneurs have solved many environmental problems by finding ways to turn garbage into something people were willing to pay for.

For example: Nonviable babies who die quickly after birth are recorded as live births in the U.S., but are more likely to be classified as stillbirths in other countries.

There were three important victories related to cannabis, i.e., marijuana, legalization and only the most radical measure failed.

Bad ideas can spread more quickly than good ones, often because they sound so good until you spend some time thinking about them.

Since each person votes for different reasons, we can't morally say that the outcome of an election binds people to any specific law or policy.

It's true that JFK would feel at home in the modern GOP. But that's because the GOP has stopped even pretending to want significant cuts to government spending.

In a way, the separation of the Czechs and Slovaks was like Brexit and the UK’s 1980s privatizations combined, only a lot more complicated.

Voting "no" on a tax increase doesn't mean you really consented to it. And Lysander Spooner argued there's not anything wrong with voting "defensively."

We argue viciously about who governs us from DC, less so about how and whether they should.