In an interview with Sky News Arabia, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) supported Israel’s genocide in Gaza, comparing it to what the United States and its allies did to their enemies during World War II. “Just flatten it. We flattened Berlin. We flattened Tokyo," he...
On March 2, 1926, Murray Rothbard was born in the Bronx, New York, an only child of immigrant parents. His father worked as a chemist and his mother encouraged his voracious reading. Early interests in history and logic foreshadowed a career in which he relentlessly...
The United States and Israel have started an aggressive war against Iran, and Tehran has retaliated with strikes against Israel and American military bases in the Middle East. In a video posted to Truth Social early Saturday morning, President Donald Trump announced...
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts [tariffs] and Excises…. —U.S. Constituton, Article I, Section 8 Referring to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...
In a landmark 6–3 decision issued on February 20, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump exceeded his statutory authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every trading partner under the International Emergency Economic...
When Alysa Liu glided across the ice in Milan to claim gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics, the celebration was immediate and well deserved. She is a remarkable athlete. What followed just as quickly, however, was a familiar rhetorical maneuver: the deployment of her...
On January 22, 2026—367 days after Donald Trump’s second inauguration and 352 days after his announcement of a plan for America to “Raze and Rebuild Gaza” and the day he launched his “Board of Peace” to “oversee” Gaza—Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner took the stage at...
There is always an urgency to put an end to war. But there is a growing urgency to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. That urgency was expressed in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s claim that the Trump administration had set a June deadline for negotiating an...
On December 5, 2025, the European Commission imposed a €120 million fine on X, formerly Twitter—its first enforcement action under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The stated violations had nothing to do with incitement, fraud, or child exploitation. The Commission...
“The whole question is—who will overtake whom?”- V. I. Lenin,1921 For communists like Vladimir Lenin and all other totalitarians, both of the “left” and “right,” the only question to be answered in matters of state is one of wielding the political power to destroy...
In February 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the United States of "not being ready to fulfill agreements" reached during alleged Trump-Putin talks in Alaska in August 2025. The accusation fits a pattern. During a July 2020 conference on the Open...
A recent Wall Street Journal article recently outlined yet the latest attempts by the U.S. government to bring down Cuba’s socialist government, a process that has been going on without much success for the past sixty-five years. Once upon a time, the U.S. policy...
I pay no attention to the Super Bowl, even less to the overhyped halftime show. But I do pay some attention to the reaction to the show's headliners when they're announced and afterward. So I know that some people did not like that Bad Bunny (whom I knew nothing about...
In late January 2026, China’s Ministry of National Defense announced investigations into two of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) most senior officers: General Zhang Youxia, long-time vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and a close Xi Jinping...
When the Rev. Jesse Jackson died this week in Chicago at age 84, the tributes were predictable. Jackson was a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a two‑time presidential candidate, and the most prominent black civil‑rights leader for decades. The Associated...
The militarization of American cities by ICE is being addressed, or not addressed, around constitutional, moral, and practical questions familiar to Americans from sixty years of debates over “law and order.” Does ICE’s deployment follow the law? What kind of...
Late last year I wrote an article for this website titled “What Has the Government Done to Our Cars” decrying the way decades of excessive regulations have changed America’s automobiles for the worse. Now, just months later, in what EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is...
As we continue to learn more about the Epstein Files, including the gruesome details, due in large part to the valiant leadership of Congressmen Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), we are also beginning to hear more names that are mentioned in the documents. We...
