The coming year could bring a major milestone to America’s fitful relationship with the military draft: The Supreme Court may declare male-only draft registration unconstitutional, while Congress could either expand registration to women or end it altogether. Out of...
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Cops Sic Dog on Sleeping 13 Year Old Boy, Falsely Accuse Him of Stealing Car
by Matt Agorist | May 3, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The Cedar Rapids police department was slapped with a lawsuit this week by the mother of a 13-year-old boy who was mauled by a police K-9 as he slept in the backyard. According to the lawsuit, the boy was wrongly accused of being involved in a car theft when he was...
TGIF: Bust the Conservative “Trust Busters”
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 30, 2021 | Economics, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
When right-wing leader Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) recently declared that "liberty and monopoly do not go together," I fantasized that he had become a free-market anarchist. When I hear monopoly, I think government because what's the most literal of monopolies (or source...
Gene Editing Goes to Clincial Trials
by David D'Amato | Apr 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
Gene-editing using the groundbreaking CRISPR technology is about to be put to the test in the first-ever clinical trial of the treatment in humans. CRISPR is a protein in bacteria that can be used to manipulate genetic material to, according to Jennifer Doudna, who...
When Murray Rothbard Predicted the Menthol Ban
by Murray N. Rothbard | Apr 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
Murray Rothbard wrote the following article in August 1994. Quick: Which is America’s Most Persecuted Minority? No, you’re wrong. (And it’s not Big Business either: one of Ayn Rand’s more ludicrous pronouncements.) All right, consider this: Which group has been...
Remembering Reese Erlich, Pillar of Independent Journalism
by Norman Solomon | Apr 29, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When Reese Erlich died in early April, we lost a global reporter who led by example. During five decades as a progressive journalist, Reese created and traveled an independent path while avoiding the comfortable ruts dug by corporate media. When people in the United...
Conservatives Created the War on Terrorism, and Are Now Its Victims
by Tho Bishop | Apr 29, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
The security walls around the U.S. Capitol may be removed, but the federal response to the January 6 protests has only just begun. The Democrats in Washington are determined to treat the incident as on par with the events of September 11, which may explain a troubling...
Don’t Stop with Chauvin: A List of Unprosecuted Killer Cops
by Matt Agorist | Apr 28, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On Tuesday former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin found guilty of unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin was seen on video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd — who was handcuffed and not resisting —...