The Donald Trump administration suspended top officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development earlier this week. The move, labeled a “Monday afternoon massacre,” was spurred by allegations that top USAID officials were circumventing President Trump’s ninety...
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Trump vs Ukraine: The Coming Battle Over Conscription
by Ted Snider | Jan 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There may be a battle looming, not just between the United States and Ukraine over the conscription of men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, but also within the Donald Trump administration. The call for Ukraine to cast a wider conscription net predates the...
The State is Nothing but Appetite
by Oscar Grau | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Be it the group that controls the state apparatus or the one that represents the institution of government, let us simply refer to the state. While the state cannot achieve everything, it can certainly achieve much, because the state is the monopoly of monopolies—the...
A Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
One of the earliest points to become apparent about Donald Trump’s second term as president is that there is a significant difference in foreign policy priorities and a vast change in style from his predecessors over the past eight or nine decades. Blather about the...
Is Racism Enabled by Capitalism, or the State?
by John Weeks | Jan 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
The November 2023 issue of Texas Monthly contains an article that deploys the archetypes of our great anti-capitalist, government-supremacist, domestic imperialist passion play so deftly it could be a Hollywood movie: “Black-Owned Land Is Under Siege in the Brazos...
Donald Trump Is Protecting Free Speech
by Norman Singleton | Jan 27, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Donald Trump wasted no time implementing his agenda by issuing a series of executive orders just hours after being sworn in as the 47th president. The orders covered subjects ranging from immigration, to energy production, to a freeze on both new federal regulations...
TGIF: Why McKinley?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 24, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Now what will hasten the day when our present advantages will wear out and when we shall come down to the conditions of the older and densely populated nations? The answer is: war, debt, taxation, diplomacy, a grand governmental system, pomp, glory, a big army and...
Biden Family Corruption Laid Bare
by Brad Pearce | Jan 23, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
For many years, Joe Biden’s corruption has been as well known as his dementia to anyone remotely out of the Democrat Party and MSNBC messaging zone. Throughout his half-century career as an unimpressive politician, his family has accumulated enormous wealth through...