Politics Is Better as Fiction
By David Boaz If the season’s got you thinking cynically about politics and politicians, TCM has the movies for you. It’s running a series all this month called “American Politics on Film.” You’ve...
View ArticleMoney and Politics in the Tennessee Democratic Party
By David Boaz Buried inside a Washington Post feature on “America’s worst candidate” is this revealing look on politics as it is played: Tennessee Democrats, who’d watched their conservative voters...
View ArticleThe Politics of Hope — and Denial
By Roger Pilon This morning POLITICO Arena asks: What does President Obama’s victory mean? My response: Obama’s victory means, for now at least, that the politics of personal destruction and division...
View ArticleThe Politics of Procrastination—Russian Trade Edition
By K. William Watson The House of Representatives passed a bill today authorizing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status with Russia, by a vote of 365-43. The bill repeals a cold war–era trade...
View Article“Good” Politics: The Government Redefines Poverty (In a way in which poverty...
The federal government has just decided that poverty for family of 4 in New York City means an income of up to $37,500, not $22,500. Quite a leap. As before, the figure excludes earned income tax...
View ArticleIt’s Cowboys vs. Packers in the Game of Politics, and the Price of Beef Is at...
K. William Watson An effort is underway at the Department of Agriculture to reform the federal government’s mandatory country-of-origin labeling rules for beef. The current scheme was successfully...
View ArticleAre Spending Cuts Good Politics?
Chris Edwards Grover Cleveland says “yes.” Calvin Coolidge says “yes.” Chris Edwards says “yes.” From Downsizing the Federal Government: Another myth is that policymakers cannot make budget cuts...
View ArticleThis Month at Cato Unbound: What Keeps Money Out of Politics?
Jason Kuznicki It’s called the Tullock Paradox: if you run the numbers, the expected returns to lobbying commonly appear much larger than they ought to be. Bad behavior pays really well, and yet...
View ArticleAntitrust and Politics as a Process
James M. Buchanan is a Nobel Prize winning economist widely recognized for his work in the field of public choice theory and constitutional economics. In this video from a 1983 Center for the Study of...
View ArticleIt’s Obvious Student Aid Is Driven by Politics. But Not This Obvious
Neal McCluskey Federal aid for college students, it’s really no secret, is driven by what works politically, not what’s best for students. While logic and evidence strongly suggest that aid mainly...
View ArticlePolitics, Ideas, and Freedom
Dr. Ron Paul has been a three-time candidate for President of the United States; as a Libertarian in 1988 and as a Republican in 2008 and 2012. He served for many years as the U.S. Representative for...
View ArticleAcademics, Intellectuals, and Politics
Edward H. Crane is the founder and president emeritus of the Cato Institute. Prior to Cato’s founding, Crane was heavily involved in the leadership of the Libertarian Party; he worked on John...
View ArticleWar and Conflict • Syria, Pipeline Politics, OPEC & the USDollar
Syria, Pipeline Politics, OPEC & the USDollar By: Jim Willie CB, GoldenJackass.com – Posted Friday, 30 August 2013 | Share this article | 2 Comments Syria is about the last gasp for the...
View ArticlePolitics and Politicians
David Boaz The New York Times, which wants politicians to run everything from our schools to our health care to our retirement, has lately been telling us just what kind of people it wants us to trust...
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