Global free trade is about individual, not national, freedom—for consumers and producers who import raw materials, tools, and semi-finished products. Aside from its role as an aspect of personal liberty, free trade's efficiency benefits have been well-established...
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You Don’t Want to Get Out of Line…
by John Weeks | Jul 25, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
The fallout from the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania continues. Speculation abounds that it was an “inside job,” the head of the Secret Service became “embattled” and resigned, and the assassin’s...
Black Magic, Mad Science, and Super-Nazis
by Dan Sanchez | Jul 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
On a London soundstage in 1987, a British pop star is filming a music video when he is interrupted by a visitor who has what he considers an insane request: You’re asking me to help you because Nazis from another dimension are trying to take over the world and only...
America’s Palace Coup
by Brad Pearce | Jul 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
On Sunday, July 21 at around 1:30pm Eastern time someone with access to President Joe Biden’s social media accounts posted that he was dropping out of the presidential election. The announcement was not on any form of official stationary and the signature was...
The Trillion Dollar Social Security Trust Fund Robbery
by Thomas Eddlem | Jul 24, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
It may be the most successful financial swindle in human history, one more than a dozen times bigger than Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion swindle. By suppressing interest rates using federal Treasury bills, the Federal Reserve Bank has managed to deprive the Social...
Biden’s Blather and American Democracy Gone Awry
by Jim Bovard | Jul 23, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
Since late 2020, President Joe Biden has invoked “the will of the people” dozens of times to sanctify his power, including arbitrary decrees that were illegal or unconstitutional. Biden’s invocations did not prevent his re-election campaign from being terminated...
Trump’s Attempted Assassination Exposes Establishment Deceitfulness
by Connor O'Keeffe | Jul 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
On Saturday evening, former president and 2024 frontrunner Donald Trump survived an attempted assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The attack was utterly shocking, not only because a would-be assassin was able to get so close to Trump with a...
A Temporary Calm in the South China Sea
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
After a particularly fraught period, complete with water cannons, near collisions, and an actual melee where a Filippino sailor apparently lost a thumb, things in the South China Sea look set to settle down following Manila and Beijing’s reaching of a "provisional...