Legal System

Government Medicine: Court Declares Child Should Die Rather Than Receive Privately-Funded Health Care

Tags: Health, Legal System

06/29/2017 • Ryan McMaken

Once you're inside the state's healthcare system, you may find it's impossible to get out. Even if you're seeking only privately funded treatment.

The American Bar Association Stifles Legal Education

Tags: Education, Legal System

06/25/2017 • Allen Mendenhall

Ending the ABA's expensive accreditation authority would be a first step to making quality representation available to poor and rich alike.

Edward Stringham on Radically Rethinking Police

Tags: Featured Mises Weekends, Legal System, Strategy, The Police State

06/24/2017 • Edward Stringham • Jeff Deist

Ed Stringham and Jeff Deist discuss why the US criminal justice system is broken, and how private security firms could create vastly better outcomes.

Week in Review: June 24, 2017

Tags: Business Cycles, Labor and Wages, Legal System, Media and Culture, Money and Banks, Taxes and Spending

06/23/2017 • Mises Institute

While the Federal Reserve is desperate to depict an optimistic vision for the global economy, their fellow central bankers aren't buying it.

The Tragedy of the Commons in the Courtroom

Tags: Political Theory, Legal System, Taxes and Spending

06/22/2017 • Chris Calton

Since using the court system costs them nothing, police and prosecutors have an incentive to load up the court system with non-violent "crimes."

Jeff Sessions’s Reefer Madness

Tags: Political Theory, Legal System

06/20/2017 • Mark Thornton

Jeff Sessions's war against marijuana legalization will do nothing to fight crime or improve health.

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Terry McAuliffe’s Fuzzy Math on Gun Homicides

Tags: Health, Legal System

06/15/2017 • Ryan McMaken

Governor Terry McAuliffe likes to use made-up numbers about "gun violence."

Behind America’s Skyrocketing Overdose Death Rates

Tags: Health, Legal System

06/09/2017 • Alice Salles

Thanks to over-use of prescription painkillers, many patients are becoming addicts who must later turn to illegal drugs to get their next fix.

The Medical Marijuana Racket

Tags: Bureaucracy and Regulation, Legal System

06/08/2017 • Laurence M. Vance

Some freedom is better than no freedom, but the lengths to which governments will go to regulate legal marijuana is amazing.

Civil Asset Forfeiture: Another Stealth Tax

Tags: Political Theory, Legal System, Taxes and Spending

06/07/2017 • Ryan McMaken

Local governments could go to the taxpayers and ask for more revenue to fight crime. But, it's much easier to seize it from innocent suspects instead.