Mises Wire

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

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.

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.

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.

The state is not "us." Even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority.

Steven Pinker’s attempt to rescue the Whig theory of history and demonstrate that we live in the best of all worlds turns out to be an utter failure.

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

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."

Gustavus Swift liberated people from a diet of salt pork by figuring out how to ship refrigerated beef.

Clearly, the proposal for increased usage of E15 is a government subsidy to corn growers and the ethanol industry.