Almost 25% of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed a bill to bring “universal mental health screening” to two million Illinois students as part of his Children’s Behavioral...
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Are Democrats More Neocon Than Republicans Now?
by Jack Hunter | Aug 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Last week as Donald Trump met separately with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine head Volodymyr Zelensky to potentially seek an end to the years long war between their countries, Democrats have been very upset. That peace might happen. They are worried...
TGIF: The Poverty of Poverty Data
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 22, 2025 | Economics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
"Poverty has no causes; prosperity has many. As history attests, poverty is humanity’s default condition.... But prosperity is not natural; it does not just happen." —Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux To hear some people tell it, America is in the grip of a vast...
Is Venezuela the Next Target of the U.S. Empire?
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Aug 22, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Donald Trump has deployed several warships and thousands of Marines to the southern Caribbean—just miles off the coast of Venezuela. The provocative mission was launched under the guise of an anti-narcotics crusade, but risks disastrous outcomes for both...
The Federal Reserve Cuts Growth, Increases Economic Chaos
by Thomas Eddlem | Aug 21, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
The same cohort of Democrats who championed the slogan “save democracy” this past year, fresh from having their national party tank the process of "fair" primaries for the third presidential election in a row, are now in a snit over Donald Trump trying to impair the...
Contra Colby
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 21, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
So sick of liberal hegemony, critics of Washington’s foreign policy have long been apt to seize at anything that promises something, anything, different. Hence the vigorous applause directed towards anyone who doesn’t mindlessly embrace every single one of the blob’s...
Ron Paul Cured My Apathy
by Karen Kwiatkowski | Aug 20, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Ron Paul has produced thousands of books, articles, speeches, debates, and smackdowns of truth reverberating through often empty Congressional chambers—the list goes on and on. Millions of people agree that Dr. Paul cured our apathy, taught us economics, inspired us...
Ron Paul: Defender of the Powerless, Critic of the Powerful
by Alan Mosley | Aug 20, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
In a political age that prizes charisma over conviction, Ron Paul's career stands out as a long series of principled noes. The Texas physician–turned–congressman won his first seat in 1976, lost it a few months later, then returned repeatedly to the House, always as...