Since March, Israeli attacks in Lebanon have displaced more than a million civilians and killed or wounded more than 17,000 people. Al Jazeera reported last month: “Israeli artillery shelling is still causing uncontrollable fires. Lebanese civil defense and...
Barely four years after the Pretoria Agreement formally ended one of the deadliest wars of the twenty-first century, large-scale fighting has returned to Ethiopia. In late September the principal anti-government force, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF),...
To get from Miami to the August fundraiser for Angie Nixon’s primary campaign for U.S. Senate at a Palestinian restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, the fastest route was I-95 to the Florida Turnpike. This is a route along which, during a hazy, 90+ degree mid-afternoon on a...
Death, taxes, and politicians being a massive disappointment—the constants in life. I would add one more item to that list: Ron Paul being consistent. As Europe and Latin America faced revolutionary moments throughout the 2000s, it was Dr. Paul who remained a constant...
Although War Secretary Pete Hegseth poo-pooed reports about dire conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier as “fake, America-hating news,” the U.S. Navy finally confirmed that that eight of its personnel in the strike group attempted suicide during...
What happens to a republic when its government lies so often that lying becomes less a scandal than a method of administration? Charles Goyette’s answer is that the republic becomes an empire, and the empire eventually becomes unable to distinguish its propaganda from...
The title of Jim Ostrowski’s brief and latest book The Government Takes 80% reads at first like a libertarian’s exaggerated fever-dream of government rapacity over the economy. The government takes 80% of the average American’s productivity every year? It sounds...
On April 1, 2026, President Donald Trump delivered his harshest verdict yet on the Atlantic alliance. Asked by The Telegraph whether he would revisit membership after the Iran war, Trump replied, “I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration. I was never swayed by NATO....
