Politics

The democratic mandate of the incoming Trump administration, along with Republican control of Congress and a confrontation of wills between the Pre

Episodes that made a difference involved an ideological and philosophical battle about policy and the role of government. That’s what the Mises Institute is all about–we’re in the business of idea bombs.

The evidence is quite clear. It really doesn't matter who's in the White House long term. Spending will continue to go up, and they'll be using the tax code to manipulate interest rates.

Since 1956, few presidential candidates have managed to get more than 51 percent of the vote in national elections.

Even if whole regions of the country vote overwhelmingly against a president, they are still forced to submit to four years of that president’s rule-by-decree.

Lena Petrova interviews Ryan McMaken on World Affairs In Context.

When the bankers called for a central bank in the US, they claimed to only want a way to stop bank runs. It turns out that they wanted—and got—much more. The permanent regime of inflation and asset bubbles is the result.

One sign of a fraying society is that its laws increasingly become political tools. The latest round involves Democrats trying to use criminal law in a very questionable way to try to put Donald Trump in prison, while Trump promises to retaliate if he is elected.

With Trump as president, will we move in the direction of capitalism, or will we move in the direction of socialism?

While many are busy offering intellectually-deficient reasons as to why Kamala Harris lost—sexism, racism, Nazism, hatred of democracy—Lipton Matthews explains some simple truths as to why Harris lost.