Archival institutions are not known to be pioneers of technological innovation. They are preoccupied with the past, after all. That is why censors still often black out classified information physically, with a marker, a piece of paper or whatnot. The Israeli State...
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500 Criminal Cases Could Be Dropped After NYPD Officer Caught Framing People for Drug Crimes
by Matt Agorist | Jan 25, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Charges against the now-disgraced NYPD detective Joseph Franco are being welcomed by the families of more than 130 more New Yorkers as it is leading to the dismissal of their family members’ charges. Franco was reportedly caught framing innocent individuals last year...
Cold War Served Hot
by Connor Freeman | Jan 24, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The hawks are openly discussing killing Russians again. The last time this happened Donald Trump was running for President against a largely despised, pantsuit sporting war criminal. Confronted with these two alternatives, assuming he was the lesser of two evils, the...
Unmask America
by Jeff Deist | Jan 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
Enough is enough. It is time to stop wearing masks, or at the very least to eliminate mask mandates in all settings. This is especially urgent for children in schools and universities, who suffer the effects of masks for long hours each day despite being at...
TGIF: Easy Cases May Make Bad Rules
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 21, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Hard cases make bad law, an adage apparently coined before 1837 tells us. In other words, "an extreme case is a poor basis for a general law that would cover a wider range of less extreme cases." Not everyone has agreed that this is the case, but we'll let that go. I...
United States to Give Extra $200 Million in Military Aid to Ukraine
by Dave DeCamp | Jan 21, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. is giving Ukraine an additional $200 million in military aid that was approved by the Biden administration in December, a senior State Department official confirmed with reporters on Wednesday. The additional military aid was announced while Secretary of...
The ‘Zero COVID’ Strategy Was a Losing Bet From the Start
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Chinese regime is doubling down in its “zero COVID” strategy. In recent weeks, new covid cases have been detected in several cities. In a world of the more-contagious omicron variant, this is to be expected. But what has been the Chinese state’s response? It’s...
The War Over Your Mind
by Tommy Salmons | Jan 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
Attention is the new currency. This isn’t an original thought. For decades there has been competition for your mind and attention on a multitude of fronts. With the popularity of social media and the twenty-four-hour news cycle the efforts have only accelerated. The...