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Slash Military Spending: ‘Defense’ Budgets Are Bigger than Ever Before

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12/7/2024

Want to Cut Federal Workers? Just Cut Spending.

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12/6/2024

Why Commies Hate Your Thanksgiving Dinner

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11/29/2024

Abolish the Department of Homeland Security

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11/16/2024

Here Come the Awful Neocon Trump Appointments

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11/16/2024

Congress Should Fire Jerome Powell

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11/12/2024

National Elections Expose the Sham That Is Centralized “Democracy”

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11/9/2024

Tax Cuts Without Spending Cuts Won’t Reduce the Taxpayers’ Burden

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11/8/2024

The Abortion Lobby Wants Taxpayer-Funded Abortions

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10/30/2024

Haiti: Why Open Borders Don’t Work in the Developing World

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10/25/2024

Is the Federal Reserve a Private Bank? It Doesn’t Matter.

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10/22/2024

Why It’s Not Enough To Hate the State

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10/12/2024

Why the Fed’s Two-Percent Inflation Target Is Meaningless

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10/5/2024

Yes, Car Seat Laws Reduce the Birth Rate

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10/2/2024

Why the Family Is Not the Model for the State

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10/1/2024

The Rise of the Western Nuclear Family and the “European Miracle”

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9/14/2024

The National Socialists Were Enemies of the West

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9/9/2024

Powell: More Easy Money Is Coming Soon

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8/27/2024

Kamala Wants Price Controls, and It’s Not Because She Has “Good Intentions”

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8/17/2024

What Ludwig von Mises Meant by ‘Democracy’

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8/15/2024

Self-Determination, Imperialism, and Secession

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8/14/2024

Princeton Historian: Just Get Over Watergate Already!

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8/9/2024

The ‘October Revolution’ Was a Coup, Not a Revolution

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8/3/2024

The Fed Is Holding Interest Rates Steady. This Won’t Last Much Longer.

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8/2/2024

Socialism, Not US Sanctions, Ruined the Venezuelan Economy

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8/1/2024

Unelected Technocrats Are Now the Nation’s Chief Executives

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7/26/2024

Choose One: Law Enforcement at Trump Shooting Was Either Incompetent or Complicit

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7/20/2024

There Is No Such Thing as ‘Wage Slavery’

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6/24/2024

Frédéric Bastiat Was a Radical Opponent of War and Militarism

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6/20/2024

Saudi Arabia Drifts Away from Washington and the Dollar

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6/17/2024

The Mises Institute’s Concern Trolls

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6/3/2024

We Oppose the State, Its Socialism, and Its Wars

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5/30/2024

Excellent Talk from John Mearsheimer on the State of Israel v. the Palestinians

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5/22/2024

How Westward Expansion Strengthened the Federal Government

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5/18/2024

The Problem with Microlibertarianism

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4/29/2024

Speaker Mike Johnson Continues the GOP’s War Against Freedom

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4/25/2024

Tariffs Are Taxes on Americans—But Protectionists Pretend Otherwise

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4/24/2024

Trump Is Right about Abortion and Lindsey Graham Is Wrong

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4/18/2024

A Lecture on State Militias and the Second Amendment

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3/23/2024

Covid Showed Us Who Really Rules America

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3/11/2024

Thomas Jefferson Still Supported Secession Forty Years After the Declaration of Independence

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2/7/2024

A Short History of the Right to Self-Determination

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2/5/2024

It’s Biden vs. Texas, and Texas Is Right.

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1/30/2024

The United States Is a Colonial Empire, and an Extremely Successful One

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1/29/2024

‘Humanitarianism’ as an Excuse for Colonialism and Imperialism

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1/22/2024

Immigration and Geopolitics: Should Latvia Have an Open Border with Russia?

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1/11/2024

Why More Secession Means Lower Taxes and More Trade

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1/5/2024

When Nationalism Fuels Decentralization and Secession: Lessons from the Cold War

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1/2/2024

How Capitalism Made Christmas a Holiday for Children

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12/27/2023

The Immorality of Protectionism

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12/2/2023