U.S. History

The fact that the US government can tax citizens directly makes the act of state secession far more difficult.

The ballooning size of legislative districts in the US is just one more illustration of how the United States is too large.

Hillary Clinton's campaign book Hard Choices makes it clear she believes that salvation always lies with the state.

That didn't take long. Only hours after the British vote to secede from the EU passed, political leaders in Scotland renew their drive to secede from the UK.

A hundred years ago, the crisis of the war was forging a new world organized around war itself.

The advent of health insurance and regulated health care brought a new era of rampant health care inflation.

The war left the central government more powerful than ever, and the states, which had traditionally curbed federal power, in danger of total eclipse.

Presidential elections provide candidates an opportunity to repeat age-old economic fallacies that never seem to die.

Pat Buchanan's "America First" economic writings in defense of protectionism are wrongheaded, and often historically inaccurate.

You don't have to be in Venezuela to be a victim of increasingly bad economic policy.