It’s no secret that one of Donald Trump’s favorite U.S. presidents is William McKinley, who led the country from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. Indeed, Trump recently changed the official name of Denali back to Mount McKinley in honor of the late president. In...
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State Schools: Bad Then, Worse Now
by John Weeks | May 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
On April 20, President Donald Trump dropped another executive order: Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities has been received by both supporters and critics as aiming at the complete elimination of the U.S. Department of Education...
Pension Problems and Socialist ‘Solutions’
by Owen Ashworth | May 7, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has provided yet another weapon for the socialists to wield in their war against free markets. The IMF published a report with the suggestion that the Baby Boomer generation could work into their 70s to save the economy: “70 is...
The Kashmir Powder Keg
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On April 22, 2025, militants opened fire near the Pahalgam area of Indian-administered Kashmir, killing twenty-six people—mostly Indian tourists. It was the deadliest attack on civilians in the region in over two decades. Within hours, New Delhi accused Pakistan of...
Do Trump’s Slick Comments Put Iran Talks in Jeopardy?
by Ted Snider | May 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
U.S. President Donald Trump’s unexpected answer on Sunday to an interviewer’s question has thrown his administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran into confusion. Trump has consistently said that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program are limited to...
The Settlers and the Exposure of Settler-Colonialism
by Kym Robinson | May 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
The talent of Louis Theroux is his ability to ask the most obvious questions with a disarming innocence. To draw out truth is a forgotten or less than celebrated trait in modern journalism. In his latest documentary, The Settlers, Theroux is not a mouthpiece for the...
Nuclear Deterrence Requires Dozens Of Warheads — Not Thousands
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 5, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the next decade, the US government plans to spend nearly $1 trillion on its nuclear arsenal—with the actual cost certain to run even higher than that. The huge outlay is driven in part by the sheer size of America’s doomsday-weapon collection, which comprises an...
TGIF: On Value and Freedom
by Sheldon Richman | May 2, 2025 | Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
To live is to act. To act is to choose. To choose is to prefer. To prefer is to pursue values—that is, to value. That's logic-guided observation. Ego sum, ergo aestimo: I am, therefore I value. (HT: Aristotle, Ayn Rand, and Ludwig von Mises.) Next: to think is to act....