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[This article is chapter 3 of  Breaking Away: The Case for Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities . Now available  at Amazon  and in  the Mises Store .] In recent decades, many pundits, scholars, and intellectuals have assured us that advances in communications and transportation would eliminate the different political,

The US Justice Department on Monday  sued the State of Texas  over floating barriers installed by the state government in the Rio Grande river. The state government had installed the barrier to block migrants crossing from Mexico. The measure also accompanies other efforts by the state to control border access, such as laying razor wire along many

A federal judge this week  vacated the desertion conviction of former US Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl , who was convicted in 2017 of desertion for leaving his post in Afghanistan. Bergdahl was then captured by Taliban forces, tortured, and imprisoned for four years before being freed by a prisoner exchange in 2014.  Since his release, Bergdahl has

People with jobs, children, and actual responsibilities might not have noticed, but Hollywood is nearly shut down right now thanks to both a writers’ strike and an actors’ strike. Or more accurately: only the writers and actors  who are members of unions  are on strike. Members of SAG-AFTRA (SAG) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are refusing

In March 2009, in the midst of recession, then Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner was pressed to respond on the question of whether or not another currency—possibly the IMF’s special drawing rights (SDRs)—might displace the US dollar as the dominant global reserve currency. Geithner responded that he’s open to more use of SDRs but then felt the

This spring marks the twentieth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. After an initial frenzy of war fever in the early years of the war, support for the war has since largely evaporated. Nearly two thirds of veterans now say the war was “not worth fighting.” Two thirds of American adults say the same thing. Even among Republican

The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday raised the target policy interest rate (the federal funds rate) to 5.25 percent, an increase of 25 basis points. With this latest increase, the target has increased 5 percent since February 2022. This is the highest rate reached since August 2007, shortly before a recession

If you have an actual life and important things to do, you probably haven’t been paying attention to the latest debt-ceiling theater now going on in Congress. Congress is indeed at it again, however, and the leadership from the GOP and the Democrats are fighting over how federal tax dollars will be spent over the next year. Until an agreement is

In March 2021, Dominion Voting Systems—a company that produces electronic voting equipment and software—sued Fox New Channel for $1.6 billion. Dominion claimed the company had been harmed by allegedly false claims made by Fox program hosts and guests about Dominion’s role in alleged efforts to rig the 2020 US presidential election. In April 2023,

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today ruled against a Hawaii state law banning the possession, manufacture, and sale in the state. Bloomberg Law reports the appeals court:  instructed the lower court to continue proceedings in compliance with its determination that butterfly knifes are protected by the Second Amendment. A butterfly