America was founded by rowdy folks who enjoyed nothing better than applying tar and feathers to British tax collectors. For a couple centuries, Independence Day was an occasion for raising a ruckus with firecrackers and plenty of other friendly detonations. But in...
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TGIF: “America First” Need Not Be Antiwar
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 30, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Today's Trump-inspired "America First" faction cannot be counted on to be consistently noninterventionist and antiwar. That it may lean that way because its chief rival faction is so enthusiastic about foreign adventurism is hardly a firm assurance that it will remain...
Prigozhin’s Rebellion: What Just Happened in Russia?
by Ted Snider | Jun 28, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader the Wagner group, has ended his siege of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and turned around his march on Moscow. It is not clear what happened nor what was staged and what was real. Each expert and commentator offers a different expert...
The Myth of the ‘Good Leaker’
by Ryan McMaken | Jun 28, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Daniel Ellsberg died on June 16, and he remains one of the nation's most prominent whistleblowers who leaked secret government information to the public. Upon his death the general consensus among the writers of memorials for Ellsberg was that he was right to leak...
Lethal Drones at the U.S.-Mexico Border?
by Laurie Calhoun | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles
Fentanyl has caused many overdose deaths in recent years, and much of it has entered the United States through Mexico. A number of politicians have thrown their support behind a proposal to officially label narcotics traffickers based in Mexico as “terrorists." Not...
An Archaeology of Nineteenth Century American Expansion
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week, context was added to Murray Rothbard’s assertion in Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy that American foreign policy underwent an abrupt shift during the second Cleveland administration (1893-1897). I argued that American foreign policy from...
Weaponization of Politics, an American Tradition
by Ron Paul | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
President Donald Trump is hardly the first political figure who has had the legal and policy processes weaponized against him. In fact, there is a long and shameful history of U.S. politicians and bureaucrats weaponizing governmental powers against their political...
My 40 Year War on Reefer Madness
by Jim Bovard | Jun 26, 2023 | Featured Articles
Forty years ago this week, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner published my first attack on the federal drug war. The previous year, the Reagan administration unleashed its "Just Say No" program, vilifying anyone who smoked a joint, sniffed the wrong powder, or used...