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....
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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...
The Lofty Goals and Harsh Realities of DOGE
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Mar 5, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
When President Donald Trump announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to be led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the initiative was met with both enthusiasm and skepticism. The prospect of cutting $1-2 trillion from the federal budget...
Big Brother Is Taking Over Britain
by Owen Ashworth | Mar 5, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
There is perhaps no piece of legislation that the current Labour government will introduce in its tenure that is more dystopian, more depressing, and more dangerous than the Data Use and Access Bill. This bill poses a real threat to the freedoms of every single...
Israel’s Lobby Launches Preemptive War on Thomas Massie
by James Rushmore | Mar 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Two weeks ago, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell announced that he would not seek re-election in 2026. McConnell’s announcement prompted Congressman Thomas Massie to share a poll asking his Twitter followers if he should run for McConnell’s open Senate seat, seek the...
The Mass Expulsion of Palestinians Will Not Be a ‘Cake Walk’
by José Niño | Mar 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Contrary to what Donald Trump thinks, removing Palestinians from Gaza will not be an easy task. The United States president shocked the world when he called for the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Plutocratic America’s War on the Working Class
by Thomas Eddlem | Mar 3, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
Establishment Democrats have long whined that working people pay a higher rate of combined income and payroll taxes than billionaires. They’re not wrong. Income from labor is taxed three times (payroll taxes, income taxes, and inflation) while income from capital is...
What I Told the Oregon Senate About Defend the Guard
by Scott Horton | Mar 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
The following is written testimony that Libertarian Institute Executive Director Scott Horton submitted to the Oregon Senate on February 27, 2025 in support of S.B. 667, the Defend the Guard Act. You can watch the bill's hearing here. Big changes are going on in the...