Secrecy and lying are two sides of the same political coin. The Supreme Court declared in 1936, “An informed public is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment.” Thus, conniving politicians have no choice but to drop an Iron Curtain around Washington....
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Donald Trump’s Economic Wars Serve No Purpose
by Daniel Larison | Dec 2, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The incoming Donald Trump administration seems determined to wage as many economic wars as it can. The president-elect reportedly plans to pursue another “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran with the goal of “bankrupting” the country. Now he is threatening new...
TGIF: On Fairness
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 29, 2024 | Economics, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Fairness and its synonyms are among the most abused words in English. By that I mean they are commonly manipulated for ideological ends. Wokeness has aggravated a situation that has existed for some time. What better way to score points for a political position than...
I’m Thankful We Defeated the Scolds
by Brad Pearce | Nov 28, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
It's become something of a Thanksgiving tradition that each year we are treated to the same tired op-eds about how the story of the first Thanksgiving is fake and we should feel guilty about making this continent our home and what a difficult day this is for Native...
Peanut and Puppycide
by Robert Blumen | Nov 27, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In the waning moments of the 2024 election, Peanut, a squirrel, went viral. A wildlife rescue, Peanut had been unable to go back to being a wild animal after his rehabilitation so owner Mark Longo adopted him as a pet. Peanut’s heart-warming interactions with his...
New Russian Missile Delivers Six Warheads and Three Messages
by Ted Snider | Nov 27, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On November 21, just two days after Ukraine acted for the first time on American permission to fire Western supplied long-range missiles deeper into Russia, Russia launched a missile attack on a military base in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. That base houses the...
Against the Tyranny of Urban Majorities
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Nov 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In a recent and rather surprising piece, The Wall Street Journal highlighted growing frustrations among rural residents of states like Illinois, solidly Republican regions who feel disenfranchised by the political dominance of urban metropolises like Chicago and the...
Twitter Hypocrisy
by Owen Ashworth | Nov 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
The U.S. election is now over and Donald Trump will be the next president. Elections come and go, but a theme tends to stay: when the establishment wins, we must unite around the winner. But when they lose, their rhetoric always clashes with the reality. We are going...