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Marion Millar has been charged in Scotland with the crime of “malicious communication” due to tweets criticizing gender self-identification. Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/why-banning-hate-speech-evil

The Mexican-War resulted in more territory for the new American empire, but the US government started it under false pretenses. A young US soldier who fought—Ulysses Grant—knew better, exposing the lies from Washington.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/unjustified-conflict-grants-memoirs-mexican-american-war

The Lane Kiffin saga has dominated sports headlines this past week, highlighting the sea changes that have come over college sports—an especially college football—in the past decade. Much of this change is being driven by the easy money regime of the Federal Reserve.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/lane-train-and-rest-college-football-madness-has-been-fueled-easy-money

New York’s mayor-elect believes he can implement socialist policies through sheer rhetoric, as though mere words can make socialism work. However, economics involves real things and reality will hit New Yorkers soon enough, and they won’t like it.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/zohran-mamdanis-socialism-flunks-basic-economics

For 150 years, Thanksgiving has been primarily an apolitical holiday that's really about family fun and eating a huge meal.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebration-domestic-life

The first English settlers in America learned a hard lesson about socialist economics in the early years of their new colonies as they faced starvation. Once they embraced free enterprise, however, they had something to be thankful for.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebration-free-enterprise

From the perspective of the state, the ideal society is one composed of single parents raising a small number of children in irreligious households.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/families-are-key-building-alternatives-state

In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/thanksgiving-celebrating-birth-american-free-enterprise

Is minarchism an antidote for the growing statism and socialism infecting our body politic? Think of it as “statism lite.”Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/minarchism-worst-kind-state-idolatry

The rent is too high. However, government interference into rental markets has been the main reason rents are so high in the first place.Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/government-intervention-not-blackrock-blame-housing-crisis