As American consumers and businesses face the looming possibility of additional tariffs under a second Trump administration, it is worth revisiting the incisive critique of protectionism put forth by economist Murray Rothbard in his book Power and Market. Rothbard’s...
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Pulling the Money Chain: The NGO Network in Ukraine and the Global War on Terror
by Matt Wolfson | Feb 5, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Detritus from Joe Biden's administration doesn’t just amount to the obvious—inflation and deficit spending, regulations and wars. There’s also been a more subtle shift off of these failures, affecting who has power in our country and how they’ll use it in the future....
What DeepSeek Means for the AI Cold War
by Kym Robinson | Feb 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
Suddenly artificial intelligence (AI) is on people's lips again...well, in their screens. Many had lost interest, speculated on AI's demise and assumed that because they no longer found random image generating fun, that it was no longer a thing. But with revelations...
Forty Years Bashing the National Endowment for Democracy
by Jim Bovard | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Sunday, Elon Musk posted on X: Those who know, please reply to this post listing all the evil things that NED has done. It’s a long list. https://t.co/8smJsP5Hji — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025 After that merciless arm-twisting, I have no choice but to...
Did Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Just Leak?
by Ted Snider | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A leaked document has given us a first glimpse at President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian online newspaper Strana, U.S. officials handed the plan to European diplomats who then passed it on to Ukraine. The existence of the plan has...
‘Red Hand’ Revolt in Serbia: People Power or Color Revolution?
by Nebojsa Malic | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For six weeks now, Serbia has been rattled by what purports to be a student rebellion, leading to the prime minister’s resignation last week and rumors of a snap election. Students from sixty-three colleges of five state and two private universities, as well as four...
Political Instability Looms Amid Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
by José Niño | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On January 15, 2025, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement, bringing Israel’s punitive military campaign in the Gaza Strip to a temporary halt. While this agreement will allay tensions in the short-term, Israel will soon be confronted with tensions on...
TGIF: Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.... —U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV Donald Trump says he wants a "revolution of common sense." If he means it, he will abandon his...