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Twenty-five years ago, in the immediate wake of 9/11, Ron Paul did not propose doing nothing. Instead, he proposed targeting Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda rather than launching a global War on Terror.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/ron-pauls-2001-alternative-what-could-have-been

The federal government has poured billions of dollars into the mental health industry, and the result seems to be even more diagnosed mental illnesses with no relief in sight.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/legitimate-care-or-tax-fed-racket-mental-health-care-adolescent-girls

Cuba’s economy is collapsing in large part because the US government is engaged in illegal and immoral economic warfare against it.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/american-governments-shameful-economic-warfare-against-cuba

As government grows and people on most sides of the political debates demand government punish their political enemies, we are seeing an increase in political violence. Government cannot prevent this violence; government is the violence.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-leads-violent-populism

From a Misesian and Rothbardian perspective, can the absence of a unified and centralized state, under certain conditions, create greater space for political pluralism, institutional competition, and constraints on state power? Kurdistan might provide some answers.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/kurdistans-liberty-consequence-its-pre-state-condition

Instead of trying to seek peaceful relationships between southern whites and former slaves during the Reconstruction period, the Reconstruction governments armed the former slaves and helped to set off violence and strife.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-party-politics-fueled-militarization-race-relations

The free market isn’t an entity that exists in a vacuum, but a social condition that exists under a specific cultural strand that respects individuality and proportionality in regards to competition—willingness to accept loss when outcompeted. 

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/polish-golden-liberty-and-myth-multicultural-equality

Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu writes that western colonialism of African countries has permanently fixed their institutional direction. This ignores what we know about the history of these nations.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/do-institutions-matter-taking-another-look-claims-daron-acemoglu

Keynesians claim that government debt is no problem because “we owe it to ourselves,” as though owners of US debt don’t care if they are repaid or not. Taxpayers, who actually will pay the debt, are left out of the equation.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/you-are-collateral-forty-three-cents-dollar

The temptation to think of China as an economic juggernaut needs a reality check. While China’s government-dominated economy has many impressive building projects, there are underlying malinvestments that the government continues to subsidize, leading to future problems.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/chinas-economic-miracle-has-run-out-road