In 1992, I was just a kid sitting in front of the TV, flipping through channels, looking for something—anything—to watch. No cartoons. No sitcoms. Just golf on one channel and an old businessman sitting at a desk on another. He had that Southern drawl, the kind that...
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The World Should Have Seen the Ukraine Aid Pause Coming
by Ted Snider | Mar 11, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At the end of June 2024, the world got its first glimpse at what Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Ukraine in one day might look like. Retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg and former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz submitted a plan to then candidate Trump. In an...
Barzani’s Deadly Betrayal: The Yezidi Massacre of 2007
by William Van Wagenen | Mar 11, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On 14 August 2007, four massive truck bombs tore through the small Yezidi towns of Tel Ezer and Siba Sheikh Khidr in Sinjar, a remote district in northwest Iraq. The explosions killed over 800 members of the persecuted religious minority, marking it one of the...
No Donald Trump, America Was Not ‘Always Free’
by Jim Bovard | Mar 10, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
In his State of the Union address last week, President Donald Trump promised that Americans “will always be free.” That throwaway line assured another round of applause from his Republican devotees on Capitol Hill. But will other Americans be as gullible or servile as...
Can Putin Be Negotiated With? Yes
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 10, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As President Donald Trump attempts to engage with Russia to end the conflict in Ukraine, supporters of the proxy war in Washington, Europe, and Ukraine claim that President Vladimir Putin is an evil dictator who cannot be trusted. The implication is that talking with...
TGIF: A New Washington Post?
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 7, 2025 | Economics, Featured, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If Jeff Bezos is as good as his word, the advocates of full liberty will owe him a standing ovation. As everyone knows by now, Amazon.com founder Bezos, one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time—a man whose profit-making activities have benefitted mankind...
Why Trump and Zelensky’s White House Meeting Exploded
by Ted Snider | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On February 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got the meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump that he had been hoping for. It was an opportunity to sign their agreement on minerals and, more importantly, to improve relations and heal their recent fight....
Romania’s Dying Democracy
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The commitment of Washington’s European allies to democracy is increasingly fragile, if not hypocritical, as Vice President J D Vance highlighted in his speech to the Munich Security Conference last month. That problem is most acute in Romania. In the first round of...