In his defense of the proposed Constitution, James Madison warned in Federalist No. 47 that the accumulation of all powers—legislative, executive, and judicial—in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. Elsewhere, he observed that of...
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Our Meddling in Yemen Has Gone On Too Long
by José Niño | Apr 3, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the middle of March, the United States has launched extensive air and naval strikes targeting Houthi installations across Yemen. These strikes killed at least 53 people, including Houthi leaders, and injured many others. The strikes were ostensibly aimed at...
A Dangerous Circle: How the CCP Uses Israel and Saudi Arabia to Infiltrate America
by Matt Wolfson | Apr 2, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
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...
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...