If you are middle class and lately feel like you're not getting ahead, you're not wrong. The economic facts bear this out. The middle class household is taking home about the same in inflation-adjusted dollars after taxes today compared to their income in 1971....
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Orwell’s War: When War is the Path to Peace
by Ted Snider | Oct 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The freshly elected President Barack Obama probably never imagined that he would be delivering his Nobel Peace Prize lecture by defending war. But there he was, in December 2009, doing just that. “I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy...
Twelve Secrets of the Deep State
by Keith Knight | Oct 1, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Libertarian Institute managing editor Keith Knight opened the Rage Against the War Machine rally on September 28, 2024 in Washington DC. You can read his full speech below. War is a euphemism for theft funded mass murder based on lies often involving slaves known as...
The War Party Circled Around Its Mythology
by John Weeks | Oct 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
Since Tucker Carlson’s interview with friend of the Libertarian Institute Darryl Cooper, the War Party apparatchiks have been losing their minds. The spectacle of War Party consolers lashing out at Cooper highlights the intellectual depravity of regime-sanctioned...
American Atrocity: Remembering the Shenandoah Burning
by Jim Bovard | Sep 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, History
George Orwell wrote in 1945 that “the nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” This week is the 160th anniversary of one of the worst atrocities of the American...
Joe Biden Is Responsible for Burning Lebanon
by Daniel Larison | Sep 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Joe Biden administration claims to be pushing for a “temporary ceasefire” between Israel and Hezbollah to avert a larger conflict, but this is very late in the day and it is not a serious effort to prevent a new war in Lebanon. It is at best a desperate,...
TGIF: Who Cares about Inequality?
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 27, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
What accounts for the preoccupation with income and wealth inequality? We hear about it every day. Isn't our absolute living standard what matters and whether it is improving or deteriorating? I'll bet that's what regular people care about. However, the professional...
Do Not Risk Calling Putin’s Bluff
by Ted Snider | Sep 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As Russia continues its advance west toward the key logistical city of Pokrovsk, whose fall would threaten Ukraine’s ability to supply its troops in the Donbas and expose fields to the west of the city over which Russian troops can pour into the rest of Donbas,...