In his State of the Union address last week, President Donald Trump promised that Americans “will always be free.” That throwaway line assured another round of applause from his Republican devotees on Capitol Hill. But will other Americans be as gullible or servile as...
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Can Putin Be Negotiated With? Yes
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 10, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As President Donald Trump attempts to engage with Russia to end the conflict in Ukraine, supporters of the proxy war in Washington, Europe, and Ukraine claim that President Vladimir Putin is an evil dictator who cannot be trusted. The implication is that talking with...
TGIF: A New Washington Post?
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 7, 2025 | Economics, Featured, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If Jeff Bezos is as good as his word, the advocates of full liberty will owe him a standing ovation. As everyone knows by now, Amazon.com founder Bezos, one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time—a man whose profit-making activities have benefitted mankind...
Why Trump and Zelensky’s White House Meeting Exploded
by Ted Snider | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On February 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got the meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump that he had been hoping for. It was an opportunity to sign their agreement on minerals and, more importantly, to improve relations and heal their recent fight....
Romania’s Dying Democracy
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The commitment of Washington’s European allies to democracy is increasingly fragile, if not hypocritical, as Vice President J D Vance highlighted in his speech to the Munich Security Conference last month. That problem is most acute in Romania. In the first round of...
The Lofty Goals and Harsh Realities of DOGE
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Mar 5, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
When President Donald Trump announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to be led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the initiative was met with both enthusiasm and skepticism. The prospect of cutting $1-2 trillion from the federal budget...
Big Brother Is Taking Over Britain
by Owen Ashworth | Mar 5, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
There is perhaps no piece of legislation that the current Labour government will introduce in its tenure that is more dystopian, more depressing, and more dangerous than the Data Use and Access Bill. This bill poses a real threat to the freedoms of every single...
Israel’s Lobby Launches Preemptive War on Thomas Massie
by James Rushmore | Mar 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Two weeks ago, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell announced that he would not seek re-election in 2026. McConnell’s announcement prompted Congressman Thomas Massie to share a poll asking his Twitter followers if he should run for McConnell’s open Senate seat, seek the...