Venezuela Reminds Us That Socialism Frequently Leads to Dictatorship
Nicolas Maduro's Venezuela is one place where Friedrich Hayek's most dire warnings remain relevant.
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Venezuela Arrests Bakers for Making Rolls, Claims They Were Waging 'Economic War' Against Country
It's not the bakers who are waging "economic war" against the people of Venezuela. It's the government.
Frederick Douglass Hated Socialism
He stood for natural rights, racial equality, and economic liberty in a free labor system. At the heart of his worldview was the principle of self-ownership.
34 Lawmakers Want Trump to Sanction Venezuela
The calls arise after allegations of corruption and human rights abuses under Maduro.
Donate to Reason Because Our Journalism Helps Poor Venezuelans AND Teen Sexters
Stories that inspire others to generate bitcoins for the victims of socialism and legal representation for cellphone Romeos.
Venezuela Seizes Medicine from Catholic Charity, Skips Talks with Opposition as Starving Residents Flee Country in Boats
Socialist Venezuela may not outlast Fidel Castro by much.
The Secret, Dangerous World of Venezuelan Bitcoin Mining
How cryptocurrency is turning socialism against itself
Venezuela Raises Minimum Wage, Public Sector Pay to Quell Protests
Government responds to inflationary pressure by contributing to it.
Venezuela's Nightmare Government Will Not Get a Recall Vote This Year
Maduro-aligned election board delays referendum until 2017, virtually guaranteeing socialist rule until 2019.
Why Is Socialism So Damned Attractive? New at Reason
It's allure is a primitive evolutionary hold over.
Venezuela Prepares for Massive Protests By Arresting Activists
2008 Cato Institute Milton Friedman Prize winner Yon Goicoechea is among the arrested.
Venezuela's Latest Response to Food Shortages: Ban Lines Outside Bakeries
Maduro's government claims the lines are a calculated political attempt to stir up "anxiety."
Venezuela's Maduro Decrees All Workers Subject To Forced Labor
Can be ordered to work in fields for up to 60 days or longer to provide food for starving country.
On the Day That Hillary Clinton Accepts the Democratic Nomination, Bernie Sanders Hangs Out at the Hampton Inn
It's an on-brand choice for the Democratic Socialist senator.
Fun-Hating Socialist Magazine Jacobin Says PokemonGo Must Be Destroyed
Free-market capitalism, I choose you.
Disaster Déjà Vu in Venezuela
Planning a recovery is tough in a country where an awful lot of guys with guns aren't ready to admit that socialism has failed again.
Starved by Socialist Policies, Venezuelans Urged to Take Up Urban Farming
The Ministry of Urban Agriculture promotes home and community gardening in hunger-wrecked Venezuelan cities.
Socialist Venezuela Facing Food Shortages 'Despite' Central Planning, Food Rights
Self-induced catastrophe
Venezuela's Supreme Court Bans Publishing of Lynching Footage; Opposition Lawmakers Physically Attacked
President Maduro says images of the horror his country has become are part of a conspiracy against his government.
Roseanne Barr, Socialist for Trump
Why a leftist sitcom star prefers Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton
Former MLB Pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee Running For Governor of Vermont
One of baseball's weirdest players ever wants to be chief executive of America's crunchiest state.
5 Ways Capitalist Chile is Much Better Than Socialist Venezuela
The story of Chile's success starts in the mid-1970s, when Chile's military government abandoned socialism and started to implement economic reforms.
Capitalism, Not Socialism, Led to Gay Rights
What system better allows people the freedom to live how they choose?
Rule of Law Collapses in Venezuela As Maduro Continues to Push Socialist Agenda
Vigilante violence plagues the streets, citizens are hunting dogs and cats for food, but the president insists Bolivarian socialism will save the day.
Hey Kids, Don't Be Suckers for Socialism!
Instapundit Glenn Reynolds points to the real-time economics lessons coming out of Venezuela...
Venezuela Spends Millions on Incredibly Dumb Things While Its Economy Collapses
Bolivarian socialism apparently means financing things like lousy race-car drivers while the people lack medicine, food, and toilet paper.
Anthony L. Fisher on SiriusXM's Insight Hour Today 12p-1p ET
Former Reasoner Michael Moynihan hosts, Reason contributor Johan Norberg calls in to discuss Bernie Sanders and socialism
Millennials Hate Capitalism Almost as Much as They Hate Socialism
Seize the means of production? Meh. Millennials love private enterprise-as long as you don't call it "capitalism."
Forget Denmark, Venezuela is the Real Culmination of Bernie's Socialist Dreams
For the Vermont senator who favors press censorship and sees bread lines as evidence of success, the Bolivarian regime would seem to embody his ideals.
#DrunkenSocialism vs. The State
How Virginia is screwing over bars, customers, and common sense
GE CEO Fighting Back on Bernie Sanders' Anti-Corporate Rhetoric
While Hillary Clinton starts to call into question whether Sanders understands banking policy.
Obama Renews Declaration that Venezuela is a National Security Threat
But it's more just a desperately poor nation suffering from socialist mismanagement and oppression.
Bernie Sanders is No Barack Obama—Iowa is a Ceiling, Not a Floor
In a state where 43 percent of Democrats identify as socialist, Sanders should be doing particularly well.
Friday A/V Club: Fascism vs. Socialism vs. Communism vs. Democracy
Lawrence Dennis, Norman Thomas, A.J. Muste, and Raymond Moley debate the ideal social system.
Living Standards Up Since the Fall of Communism
Young people don't remember just how bad it was under socialism.
What Bernie Sanders Won't Say in His Socialism Speech Tomorrow
In which we relate the strange saga of Jasper McLevy, because he probably won't turn up in Sanders' speech
