Just before Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) started their ongoing series of rallies against Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, Sanders stopped by Face the Nation on CBS and hilariously exclaimed in feigned outrage: “We're...
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Only Thomas Massie Understands the Problem of Tesla ‘Terrorists’
by Jack Hunter | Apr 1, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
As Donald Trump's administration rushes to call the vandalism of Teslas across the country “terrorism,” at least one Republican is not comfortable with doing so. In a recent story for Semafor on Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), reporter David Weigel highlighted...

A Vaccine Reckoning Under Trump?
by Jim Bovard | Mar 31, 2025 | Featured Articles
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. forced Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, to resign on Friday. Good Washingtonians were horrified, especially since Marks had played a key role in enabling federal dictates...

Does the First Amendment Come with an Israel Exception?
by James Rushmore | Mar 31, 2025 | Featured Articles
Earlier this month, Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner introduced a resolution threatening to cancel the O Cinema’s lease. The theater’s crime? Showing No Other Land, a documentary about the Israeli occupation of Palestinian villages in the West Bank. About a week after...
TGIF: “Liberalism and Capitalism”
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 28, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Ludwig von Mises's 1927 path-breaking work in political theory speaks to the current generations. In section 5 of his introduction to Liberalism: The Classical Tradition, Mises sounds impeccably relevant in describing how the opponents of liberalism and the market...
How Trump Greenlighted the Resumption of Israel’s Gaza Genocide
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Israel resumed its genocidal military operation in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, March 18 with a massive overnight bombardment that killed 404 Palestinians before midday, including 263 women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Among the dead...
Israel’s Minions Smeared an American Hero
by John Weeks | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
American libertarians, regardless of their preferred faction, understand the state is a monster. We view the state the way Karl Marx viewed capitalism (demonic) or William Lloyd Garrison viewed slavery (cannibalistic). Sadly, American libertarians live under the most...
Even Realists Overstate the ‘China Threat’
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Mar 26, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Perusing the most recent edition of Foreign Affairs, which was typically dreadful, one piece caught my eye. In “The Taiwan Fixation,” Stephen Wertheim and Jennifer Kavanagh argued that a full-scale U.S. military intervention over Taiwan would be catastrophic, and that...
The First Amendment Protects Mahmoud Khalil
by Gary Chartier | Mar 26, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
One of Donald Trump’s first official actions as president was to sign an executive order designed to protect freedom of expression against government pressure. Soon after, Vice President J.D. Vance issued a vigorous challenge at the Munich Security Conference to...
Don’t Treat Pro-Palestine Protesters Like J6 Protesters
by Jack Hunter | Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
“Treason.” “Sedition.” “Coup.” These were the words used immediately to describe the protesters—or “insurrectionists” who participated in the January 6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill. As ugly as that day was without having to embellish, Democrats and Never Trump...
Mahmoud Khalil and the Battle of Technocrats vs. Activists
by Matt Wolfson | Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is one of those events that can divide a room, or an X space, just by being referenced. The facts are deceptively simple. A Palestinian student at an Ivy League University on a foreign visa who organized protests at which some participants...
Chronicle of An Unnecessary War: How the West Provoked Russia and Squandered Peace
by Michael Holmes | Mar 24, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Scott Horton’s 900-page masterpiece, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, is a hugely important work that meticulously documents how three decades of Western encirclement provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
The End of U.S. Soft Power?
by Brad Pearce | Mar 24, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Donald Trump's second term has been something of a mixed bag with some very bad foreign policy moves and a ridiculous and cynical crackdown on anti-Israel dissenters. But it has also featured an incredible war against some of the worst aspects of permanent government....
TGIF: The Income Stagnation Myth
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 21, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Many people, including some free-market advocates, think Americans are materially worse off today than they were in the 1970s. Some subscribers to that view blame globalization, that is, free trade in goods, which means in labor services. By any reasonable measure,...
One Majority to Rule Them All
by Jeb Smith | Mar 20, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Decentralization, or localism, is based first on the extended family or household; when grouped with other clans, this became a locality creating laws organically for the benefit of all. On the other hand, centralization occurs when forces far from these...
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White House Spent $40 Million In First Month Housing Prisoners at Gitmo
President Donald Trump is spending $40 million per month to house about 300 migrants at facilities in US-occupied Cuba. Some of the detainees are being held at an infamous George W. Bush-era torture prison.
Palestinian Teen Is 63rd to Die in Israeli Prison Since October 7
A 17-year-old from the West Bank died in an Israeli prison, becoming the 63rd Palestinian and first minor to die in detention since October 7, 2023. The youth was held for six months without charges prior to his death.
NYT Investigation Reveals New Details About the US Proxy War in Ukraine
A new investigation by the New York Times discloses the extent of the US support for the proxy war in Ukraine. One European official said Washington is “part of the kill chain now.”
Sen. Sanders To Force Vote To Block Arms Sales to Israel
Senator Bernie Sanders has vowed to force votes on two separate measures that would bar $8.8 billion in proposed weapons sales to Israel, demanding that Washington end its “complicity in the carnage” in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Mossad Seeking Countries To Take Large Numbers of Palestinians
As Tel Aviv works to implement President Donald Trump’s plan to cleanse the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Mossad is approaching other countries to take in large numbers of Gazans. Trump has said that he wants to send the Palestinians to refugee cities in another country.
Russia Says Negotiations With US on Black Sea Truce Still Ongoing
The Kremlin says that Russian and US officials are meeting to discuss a “new agreement” to implement the limited Black Sea ceasefire. Moscow has said some sanctions relief is key to the success of the deal.
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Ron Paul – “Trump 2.0”
Dr. Paul on his career, the universe and everything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo-mrUV32F4
I Am the Senate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieTfE6Odfxo
Tom Woods Speech: “The Ron Paulian Roots of MAGA (and What It Still Has to Learn)”
Institute senior fellow Tom Woods' speech at the recent Ron Paul Institute event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-02TxeEEULQ
Vindication
Tom Woods interviews his old Harvard professor Vladimir Brovkin about US-Russia relations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRyRx8fA4yE
Thank You George Foreman
“Don’t do it son,” big George Foreman said as he shielded his commentary partners, Larry Merchant and Jim Lampley from violent rioters. The conclusion of the first Andrew Golota vs Riddick Bowe fight had ended in controversy which led to brawls and a ringside riot. It...
The Next Aircraft Debacle: The F47!
The Pentagon did not get the memo on the death of manned combat aircraft in the 21st century. Is the 47 designation the year the first aircraft may be aloft? Don't believe any promises on price or schedule much less efficacy. They will not deliver. China’s two...