In a recent report for the Libertarian Institute, I traced connections between the American and Saudi players rebuilding Gaza into a surveillance city-state—and building Saudi surveillance cities whose offshoots are finding their ways to America. Digging deeper into...
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Got Immigration Problems? Fix Foreign Policy First
by Lora Karch | Apr 2, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As Syria begins to collapse into another civil war, western nations brace for the inevitable surge of Syrian refugees to their borders. Amid a national immigration crisis, America should consider how its own foreign policy perpetuates this problem. Over 1,500 people...
How Bernie Sanders and the Democrats Made Elon Musk the Richest Man in the World
by Thomas Eddlem | Apr 1, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
Just before Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) started their ongoing series of rallies against Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, Sanders stopped by Face the Nation on CBS and hilariously exclaimed in feigned outrage: “We're...
Only Thomas Massie Understands the Problem of Tesla ‘Terrorists’
by Jack Hunter | Apr 1, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
As Donald Trump's administration rushes to call the vandalism of Teslas across the country “terrorism,” at least one Republican is not comfortable with doing so. In a recent story for Semafor on Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), reporter David Weigel highlighted...
A Vaccine Reckoning Under Trump?
by Jim Bovard | Mar 31, 2025 | Featured Articles
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. forced Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, to resign on Friday. Good Washingtonians were horrified, especially since Marks had played a key role in enabling federal dictates...
Does the First Amendment Come with an Israel Exception?
by James Rushmore | Mar 31, 2025 | Featured Articles
Earlier this month, Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner introduced a resolution threatening to cancel the O Cinema’s lease. The theater’s crime? Showing No Other Land, a documentary about the Israeli occupation of Palestinian villages in the West Bank. About a week after...
TGIF: “Liberalism and Capitalism”
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 28, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Ludwig von Mises's 1927 path-breaking work in political theory speaks to the current generations. In section 5 of his introduction to Liberalism: The Classical Tradition, Mises sounds impeccably relevant in describing how the opponents of liberalism and the market...
How Trump Greenlighted the Resumption of Israel’s Gaza Genocide
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Israel resumed its genocidal military operation in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, March 18 with a massive overnight bombardment that killed 404 Palestinians before midday, including 263 women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Among the dead...