With Taiwan’s presidential election now concluded, and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai Ching-te having won a plurality due to the failure of the major opposition parties (the KMT and TPP) to combine behind one candidate, tensions in East...
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Americans Are Fighting For Control Of Federal Powers That Shouldn’t Exist
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jan 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
It’s no secret that politics in the United States is growing increasingly acrimonious—to the point that a 2022 poll found 43% of Americans think a civil war is a least somewhat likely in the next decade. But here’s what few people realize: The intensity of our...
Biden Lied, Now People Will Die
by Dan McKnight | Jan 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Sometimes when you’re celebrating a victory you get a big reminder of why that victory matters. As you should all know, last week the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed the Defend the Guard Act, which would keep their National Guard units out of overseas...
Why Kentucky Needs School Choice
by Trenton Hale | Jan 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Republicans in Kentucky’s House of Representatives are pushing for school choice. This comes after Kentucky's Supreme Court ruled that no tax dollars could go to any school besides public schools. Now, the GOP fighting back. State Rep. Josh Calloway introduced a bill...
The Martin Luther King Jr. Speech You Need to Hear Today
by Libertarian Institute | Jan 15, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
TGIF: Smells like Genocide
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If it looks like genocide, sounds like genocide, and smells like genocide, chances are it's genocide. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule provisionally on whether that is what Israel is committing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. The...
The EU Wants to Spy on Europeans’ Internet Use
by Robert Blumen | Jan 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
The European Commission is a legislative body in the European Union with regulatory authority over digital technology. The EC’s eIDAS Article 45, a proposed regulation, would deliberately weaken areas of internet security that the industry has carefully evolved and...
Imperialists Will Always Double Down
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
While one could choose many appropriate representatives of the quotidian inanity of U.S. foreign policy—the deleterious consequences of which somehow never do anything to dent the authors’ respective career prospects—one could find many equal to but none better than...