Did a Special Counsel report officially launch the Biden administration Death Spiral? President Joe Biden is not guilty because he is hopelessly clueless about his own life and career. That is the tacit verdict of Special Counsel Robert Hur, who concluded that Biden...
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The US Keeps Bombing People While Saying It Doesn’t Want To Fight
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
One of the weirdest things happening in the world today is the way US officials keep insisting that they are not at war with the groups they’re dropping bombs on in the Middle East, and that they do not seek conflict with the people they are attacking. Shortly after...
TGIF: Tariffs Tax Consumers
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 9, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
We seem to forget that a tariff is a tax. It is formally levied on importers, not on foreigners or things, but since it can usually be passed along, it ends up as an indirect tax on consumers. The point of tariffs is to protect certain domestic businesses and their...
Beware of Expats Bearing False Loyalty
by Brad Pearce | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar recently found herself at the center of a controversy after her remarks to a Somali group were mistranslated and widely shared. The reality of the situation is that the main thing she said reflects a U.S. policy pre-dating her entry...
America’s Answer Is More Violence
by Ted Snider | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In an administration seemingly bankrupt of diplomacy or imagination, U.S. President Joe Biden and his team, led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, have responded to the most hair trigger situations across the map in just...
A Human White Pill Demolishes Progressives
by Mark Maresca | Feb 7, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
White Pills generally take the form of cultural or political trends. But they are especially satisfying when they take human form. Today’s liberty movement is fortunate to have a host of important White Pill influencers. They are solidly grounded in...
Dumb Republicans Hand Power to Biden
by Tom Woods | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
If I were to describe Joe Biden as a hypocrite, I rather doubt anyone reading would be shocked. But if you spend any time on Twitter you've surely seen a clip of Biden warning that Trump may start a war with Iran, and that of course he would need congressional...
Who Will Fight These Wars Anyhow?
by Kym Robinson | Feb 6, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The war drums are beating, and public officials and the media are certain that the enemy must be conquered. The war is over there, away from home, in someone else's. The public is conditioned to accept that war is inevitable, that for the liberal democracies of...