The latest flare-up in the geopolitical standoff over Ukraine is a feature, not a bug, of Washington's most recent grand narrative of global affairs. The names of these grand narratives read more like B-list action titles than mass-murder campaigns: From the...
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How a Libertarian Would Solve Land Conflict in the Middle East
by Jeff Deist | Jun 4, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism
The recent spate of bombing violence in Israel's West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza demonstrates the enduring attachment both Israelis and Palestinians have to physical land in the country. Both sides make claims—legal, moral, and political—to land within Israel,...
Biden Proposes Globally-Imposed Corporate Tax Rates
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jun 3, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a move that would primarily benefit the world’s largest economies and most bloated governments, the Biden administration has proposed that all the world’s countries agree to impose corporate taxes at a rate no lower than 15%. Biden also proposes punishing countries...
House Members Demand Pentagon Give Israel an Extra Billion in Aid
by Dave DeCamp | Jun 3, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers sent a letter to the Pentagon on Wednesday urging Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to give the Israelis more military aid after Israel’s Gaza bombing campaign. The effort was led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), who was joined by...
‘I Can’t Breathe’: Three Cops Charged With Murder For Beating Innocent Father to Death on Walk Home
by Matt Agorist | Jun 2, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
For months after her brother Manuel Ellis’ death in police custody, Monet Carter-Mixon fought for answers. She was told that her brother who is a father of two and active member of his community’s church, randomly attacked two cops and was subsequently killed while...
The Regime vs. Joe Rogan
by Finn Andreen | Jun 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
Recently, Joe Rogan, one of the largest podcast hosts in the United States (10.6 million YouTube subscribers), expressed the following opinion about the vaccination of young adults: If you are 21 and ask me if you should get the vaccine, I would say "no". If you are a...
Memorial Day: Remember Political Lies that Caused Soldiers to Die
by Jim Bovard | Jun 1, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This article was originally published at the Institute last year on Memorial Day and is reprinted below. On Memorial Day, the media do their usual sacralizing of war. Instead, it should be a day for the ritualized scourging of politicians. During the last 70 years,...
Neither the Wars Nor the Leaders Were Great
by Ralph Raico | Jun 1, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The king of Prussia, Frederick II ("the Great"), confessed that he had seized the province of Silesia from the Empress Maria Theresa in 1740 because, as a newcomer to the throne, he had to make a name for himself. This initiated a war with Austria that developed into...