The family of a 26-year-old Atlanta man who was killed after police shot him 76 times, thought for years that their only course of action was a civil rights lawsuit against the officers involved. However, this month, five years after Jamarion Robinson was gunned down...
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The Meaning of ‘Let’s Go Brandon’
by Laurie Calhoun | Nov 1, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
By now everyone is aware that “Let’s Go Brandon!” is code for “F*ck Joe Biden!” This linguistic innovation came about when a hapless NBC reporter told her audience that the members of a crowd shouting in unison were exuberantly expressing their enthusiasm for Brandon...
Protectionism: Morally and Economically Dumb
by Jim Bovard | Nov 1, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Protectionism is reviving in Washington on both sides of the political aisle. Democrats are cheering proposals to restrict trade to benefit labor unions and save the environment while some Republicans are reviving Smoot-Hawley style salvation schemes. Protectionist...
TGIF: The Challenging Art of Persuasion
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 29, 2021 | Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Anyone who hopes for a peaceful pro-liberty intellectual revolution is interested in the art of persuasion. But is it a practical art? Can enough people be persuaded to abandon long-held anti-liberty views for something quite different? I'm assuming here that one...
Cops Fire 25 Rounds Into Crowd at High School Football Game, Kill 8 Year Old Girl
by Matt Agorist | Oct 29, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
When 8-year-old Fanta Bility and her family attended a high school football game back in August, they never imagined that their worst nightmare would come true that night. Sadly, however, according to a lawsuit filed this week, thanks to a group of trigger happy...
Taiwan Confirms Deployment of U.S. Troops to Their Island
by Dave DeCamp | Oct 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In an interview with CNN that aired Wednesday, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen confirmed reports that said US troops are in Taiwan training the island’s military. The confirmation is the first time since Washington severed diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979...
2% Inflation Is Killing Us
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 28, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Fed chairman Jerome Powell is increasingly under fire for his apparently inability to take inflation seriously or admit it may be more than “transitory.” There’s been much talk of tapering the Fed’s enormous asset purchases, yet—as is typical for the Fed, actual...
The Hawks Are Encircling Iran…Again
by Connor Freeman | Oct 27, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Washington and Tel Aviv’s threats against Iran are rapidly proliferating. The Israelis reportedly just approved a $1.5 billion budget for a possible military attack on Iran. Israel’s Air Force is currently training “intensely” to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities....