Mises Wire

A big chunk of the voting population relies on taxpayer-funded benefits to pad their incomes. The effects on voting and public policy can't be ignored.

Given that you conservatives love Medicare, which guarantees government health care for seniors, why not love it even more by expanding it to everyone?

If politicians cared about affordable housing, they'd be doing all they could to repeal regulations and encourage more construction.

Today would have been  Ralph Raico's eighty-second birthday. He was a foremost historian of classical liberalism and a leading libertarian theorist.​

The American lifestyle — not the American healthcare system — is likely the biggest factor in lagging American life expectancy.

What causes financial crises, domestic and global, is the underlying, continuing credit expansion.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968.

It is the boosters of aggressive government action, such as a carbon tax, who ignore the peer-reviewed research on climate change.

Politicians never let due process or evidence stand in the way of a declaration of guilt.

There's a long history of deliberately producing terrible scholarship with the intent of showing how arbitrary, political, and incompetent editors and publishers are.