America is definitely not Europe, but we can find a number of parallels between European history and contemporary America. For example, we’ve previously written about the Italian Years of Lead as a possible template for urban unrest and low-level inter-tribal warfare...
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We Must Prosecute American Officials For War Crimes in Yemen
by Doug Bandow | Sep 26, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently announced that it was providing $204 million in aid for the impoverished and war-ravaged country of Yemen. That sounds generous, but it’s the Saudi royals themselves who are responsible for most of the death, destruction,...
What ‘Experts’ Miss About Economic Inequality
by Bradley Thomas | Sep 25, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
How can the U.S. reduce economic inequality? That’s a question USA Today posed to three “policy experts on the left and the right” in this recent article. The responses, while unsurprising, were nevertheless disappointing. For libertarians, economic inequality itself...
How the Military is Using Your Data to Fight China
by Ken Silva | Sep 24, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A new generation of Cold Warriors want your data to build artificial intelligence-powered weapons for their escalating conflict with China. This has been made explicit by the U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), a relatively new and...
Destroying the Village to Save It: Government Overreach in Fearful Times
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
After months of lockdowns, border closures, and inconsistent injunctions issued by local authorities to protect some of their constituents by severely limiting everyone’s freedom not only to move, but also to act, and even to speak, the time has arrived for a robust...
Donald Trump, Anarchism Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
by A.G. House | Sep 23, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Donald Trump seems to think we're all stupid, or he really is stupid. Then again, maybe we can just chalk this all up to neo-McCarthysim. What, you may ask, am I talking about? The 'Dear Fuhrer' keeps using a word as a fear-inducing pejorative, and I don't think that...
Free Assange, Demand Coalition of World Leaders
by Dave DeCamp | Sep 23, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A group of over 160 current and former politicians endorsed a letter that demands the United Kingdom government release WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange immediately. The publisher is currently fighting extradition to the United States at Old Bailey court in London and...
Generals Are Bureaucrats With Extra Stars
by Ryan McMaken | Sep 22, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The United States has always had a love affair with certain generals. George Washington, of course, was immensely popular, and thirteen U.S. presidents were generals before they were president. But prior to the Second World War, generals as a group were not revered or...









