On July 18, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claimed to have “overwhelming evidence” that President Barack Obama himself, as well as key members of his administration, “manufactured and politicized intelligence to lay the groundwork for what was...
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Robert Taft Foresaw the Dangers of NATO
by James Rushmore | Jul 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
On July 26, 1949, Ohio Senator Robert Taft delivered a speech in which he explicated his reasons for voting against ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty. His remarks included the following: "If we undertake to arm all the nations around Russia from Norway on the...
Ukraine Abandoned
by Ted Snider | Jul 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The war with Russia is going very badly for Ukraine. At the beginning of July, the Russian armed forces took full control of the Luhansk region for the first time. And, though it is too early to tell if they will hold it, there are now unconfirmed reports that the...
Industrial Capitalism and Its Critics
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 28, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, History
The nineteenth century marked the most dramatic leap forward in human welfare ever witnessed. It was a century defined not by aristocrats or emperors, but by coal, cotton, contracts, and capitalists. In his lectures “War, Peace, and the Industrial Revolution” and “The...
I’ll Teach You to Bully Politicians
by Dan McKnight | Jul 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Two weeks ago, I was invited for another interview with Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton, who's still fresh off his extended, three hour appearance with Tucker Carlson. In the closing minutes of his presentation on America's Middle East wars, Scott gave the...
Under Trump, Police Militarization Reaches a New Level
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 28, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Law enforcement in the United States has exhibited an exceptional degree of harshness, if not outright brutality, during the initial months of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. A majority of the most flagrant examples have involved enforcement actions by...
TGIF: What Is Capitalism?
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 25, 2025 | Economics, History, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
So, what is capitalism? The answer will depend on who's being asked. Language, like markets, basic law, and customs, is a spontaneous order. No one plans it. Words drift in their meaning in ways that probably can’t be fully explained. Language is a tool that people...
Domestic Militarization is Trump’s Economic Plan
by Matt Wolfson | Jul 24, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
If spending on war is the politically easiest way to juice an economy, then the smoothest applications for this spending are wars at home, the easiest to begin and to control. This is why, at an accelerating rate since the 1990s, America’s government has waged wars...