The Latest Breaking News from Prohibition

While the lethal effects of Iran’s booze ban are widely recognized, politicians ignore similar consequences from U.S. drug laws.

Cato Institute immigration policy expert David Bier outlines how the US immigration system bars the vast majority of potential migrants, much like Prohibition banned almost all uses of alcohol.

The emergence of the animal tranquilizer as an opioid adulterant illustrates once again how the war on drugs makes drug use more dangerous.

Warren G. Harding was a terrible president, but he did get two things right. He freed an ailing Eugene Debs from federal prison, where Debs had been locked up for criticizing World War I, and he appointed Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Los Angeles’ first female public defender, as assistant attorney general…

It doesn't make sense to create laws that restrict activities enjoyed by the general populace to protect a tiny minority that will undoubtedly partake in those activities anyway.

Is it just to punish the many for the excesses of the few?

Pauline Sabin was a freedom-loving heroine.

Your tax-deductible support helps us make the case against today's overbearing nanny state.

How a Prohibition-era legal precedent allows warrantless surveillance on private property.

Handwritten letters by gangster Al Capone offer insight into life during Prohibition, an assassination attempt, the Chicago Outfit gang, Hindman Auctions said.

Peaky Blinders reminds us that when the government bans or artificially limits a resource, control of that resource often gets decided through violence.