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Republicans and MAGA: Carrying a Gun Is a Bad Thing Now https://mises.org/power-market/republicans-and-maga-carrying-gun-bad-thing-now ![](https://m.stacker.news/127741) By Ryan McMaken > In 2026, conservatives cheer the masking of police in a way that would have been viewed as shockingly sinister, illegal, and downright creepy by Americans of earlier generations.
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Norms, Emergencies, and the Administrative State https://mises.org/mises-wire/failure-constitutionalism-through-ages-norms-emergencies-and-administrative-state **On the Failure of Constitutionalism Through the Ages** By Joseph Solis-Mullen > What happens if those that govern exempt themselves from the rules? - Republican Rome: Constitutional Norms Without Enforcement - Medieval Florence: Republican Forms and Oligarchic Reality - 20th Century England: Soft Despotism and the Administrative State - The Illusion of Constitutional Restraint
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Virtuous Market Distribution vs. Nefarious State Redistribution https://mises.org/mises-wire/virtuous-market-distribution-vs-nefarious-state-redistribution By Finn Andreen > Progressives sell state intervention into economic affairs as “protecting” consumers and workers. In all cases, free markets do a better job of protecting all participants.
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Trump's Tariffs Made His Farm Bailouts Inevitable | The Libertarian Institute By Joseph Solis-Mullen > In the comic theater of American politics, few spectacles are as reliably absurd as the utopian promises of protectionism. Donald Trump’s tariffs, hailed by their proponents as a bold strike against foreign exploitation, have instead proven to be a blunt instrument of economic self-sabotage—particularly for the nation’s farmers. From his first administration to the present day these policies have not only disrupted free markets but have necessitated a cascade of government bailouts, turning independent producers into wards of the state. Such interventions are not savvy trade strategy but are classic crony capitalism: politicians picking winners and losers, all while taxpayers foot the bill for the inevitable fallout. > Let’s rewind to Trump’s initial foray into tariff warfare, beginning in 2018. Under the guise of national security and “fair trade”—invoking dusty provisions like Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962—the administration slapped duties on imports ranging from steel and aluminum to a broad array of Chinese goods.
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Will Trump's DHS 'Zone Out' the First Amendment? | The Libertarian Institute By James Bovard > Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday called for Minneapolis to “set up a peaceful protest zone so that these individuals can exercise their First Amendment rights and do so peacefully.” Since 9/11, “free speech zones” have been one of the biggest constitutional shams around. > Both major political parties have used “free speech zone” restrictions to seek to silence dissent.
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Trading with the Enemy: An American Tradition (2022) https://mises.org/mises-daily/trading-enemy-american-tradition By Murray N. Rothbard > Rothbard recounts how during the French and Indian War (1754–63), Americans continued the great tradi­tion of trading with the enemy.
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Trump Plotting Regime Change in Cuba by Year’s End: WSJ | Libertarian Institute By Will Porter > The Donald Trump administration hopes to execute a regime change in Cuba by the end of 2026, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal. The report comes just weeks after the US military kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on dubious drug charges. > The newspaper said Washington is now “searching for Cuban government insiders who can help cut a deal to push out the Communist regime by the end of the year,” with senior US officials holding regular meetings with Cuban exiles and pressure groups in recent months.
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Trump Refuses To Rule Out Military Option for Greenland | Libertarian Institute By Will Porter > President Donald Trump declined to rule out the use of force to take control of Greenland, soon after several European allies dispatched troops to the territory in an apparent warning to Washington. > Asked by NBC News whether he would use military force to seize Greenland during a brief interview on Monday, the US leader simply replied “No comment.” He previously hinted at a military option, saying last week that the United States would take the territory “one way or another.” > Further ratcheting up tensions over the issue, Trump additionally said he no longer felt “an obligation to think purely of peace” with regard to Greenland, according to a letter he penned to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store and obtained by Bloomberg. The president went on to blame the Nordic state for failing to award him with a Nobel Peace Prize, adding that “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”
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Colonial Exploitation Did Not Fuel the West's Economic Development (2020) https://mises.org/mises-wire/colonial-exploitation-did-not-fuel-wests-economic-development By Lipton Matthews > The West did not need resources from “Third World” colonies to attain economic development. It may be that they were not necessary, but the stronger point is that they were not sufficient to explain the West's growth.
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Weak, Not Limited: Early Ming Governance and the Illusion of Proto-Liberalism https://mises.org/mises-wire/weak-states-not-limited-states-early-ming-governance-and-illusion-proto-liberalism By Joseph Solis-Mullen > Although some scholars have labeled the early Ming Dynasty as a proto-liberal state, they are mistaken. The Ming governance at that time was weak, not limited by law and ideology.
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The Bureaucratization of Science Is a Feature, Not a Bug https://mises.org/mises-wire/bureaucratization-science-feature-not-bug By Thiago V. S. Coelho > As Murray Rothbard warned decades ago, government-sponsored science is simply an extension of the bureaucracy used by the regime to force its policies on others. This is not an accident or anomaly; it is how government works.
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