If you’ve felt the media has heavily emphasized bad news throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, your judgment now has some scholarly corroboration. Dartmouth College and Brown University researchers have analyzed tens of thousands of Covid-19 articles and found major U.S....
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Police Mistakenly Raid Home of Great-Grandfather, Permanently Injure Him
by Matt Agorist | Mar 30, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Despite police and their apologists constantly reminding us that “if we do nothing wrong, we have nothing to worry about,” innocent people continue to be arrested, beaten, and even killed by police carrying out deadly mistakes. Willard J. King, a Great-Grandfather...
The Politics of Reaction: Civil Rights & Social Media Purges
by Derek Franklin | Mar 29, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
On January 11, 2021, Robert Wenzel authored a blog post entitled “Why I Would Like to See Twitter and Facebook Ban More Accounts.” In the post Wenzel makes the astute observation that social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter cannot kill off “deep thinkers from...
The Success of Bottom-Up ‘Constitutional Carry’
by José Niño | Mar 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
Few political movements can boast of success like the firearms movement in the United States. Often overlooked is how before the 1980s there was no concept of licensed, let alone unlicensed, concealed carry in the overwhelming majority of the country. The sole...
TGIF: The Bias against Advertising
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 26, 2021 | Sheldon Richman, TGIF
People who dislike markets harbor a special animosity toward advertising as cynically controlling. This is not new. In the mid-20th century John Kenneth Galbraith and other market opponents condemned advertising as business's way to manipulate people into buying...
How Erdogan Keeps Tricking Europe
by Alaeddin Saleh | Mar 26, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Turkey has put its mind to improving the damaged relations with the European Union and introducing a positive agenda to the negotiations with the EU leaders: this is a deceptive impression that could have been produced on an outside observer by the recent steps of the...
Biden Sees China As Primary Geopolitical Threat
by Dave DeCamp | Mar 26, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
President Biden vowed that he would not allow China to become the world’s “leading” country during his first press conference on Thursday. His comments come as U.S.-China tensions are soaring, and the two countries’ relationship is at its lowest point in decades. “I...
How the Government Covered Up the Waco Massacre
by Jim Bovard | Mar 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
The easiest way to achieve sainthood in Washington is to cover up a federal atrocity. Thus, it is no surprise that former senator John Danforth continues to be treated by the Washington Post as a visionary statesman. The Post showcased Danforth’s attack on Donald...