From a federal government operating far beyond the bounds of the Constitution to law enforcement agencies routinely entering private property without warrants, tyranny takes many forms in the United States. However, few are as shocking to the sensibilities as civil...
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The World Order Is On Trial at the International Criminal Court
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Dec 5, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On November 21, the International Criminal Court (ICC), after months of delay, finally issued arrest warrants as requested by the ICC Prosecutor for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Both men are charged with being...
Ignoring China’s Redlines Could Make Taiwan the Next Ukraine
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 5, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The recent meeting between outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Lima, Peru offered a stark illustration of the divergent priorities and perspectives shaping the fraught U.S.-China relationship. While the Biden administration’s...
Donald Trump and the Left’s ‘Fascist’ Boogeyman
by Scott Boykin | Dec 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
The claim that Donald Trump is a fascist was an essential feature of the Democratic Party's electoral strategy in 2024. Despite its massive failure, the left continues to beat this dead horse and will no doubt continue. And while Trump has abundant negative qualities,...
The Roads Are Getting Worse, and We Know Who to Blame
by John Weeks | Dec 4, 2024 | Featured Articles
Approximately eighty million Americans were expected to hop in their motor vehicles and hit our nation’s roads for Thanksgiving last week. Despite the immediate “lived experience” of abysmal transportation infrastructure, most people will not level criticism at the...
Syrian Civil War Redux
by Dan McKnight | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
You turn your head for one moment to focus on turkey and stuffing, and all of the sudden the Syrian Civil War restarts. The conflict which erupted during the 2011 Arab Spring, and which over the course of a decade killed over half a million people, has been static...
Secrecy and the Divine Right to Deceive
by Jim Bovard | Dec 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
Secrecy and lying are two sides of the same political coin. The Supreme Court declared in 1936, “An informed public is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment.” Thus, conniving politicians have no choice but to drop an Iron Curtain around Washington....
Donald Trump’s Economic Wars Serve No Purpose
by Daniel Larison | Dec 2, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The incoming Donald Trump administration seems determined to wage as many economic wars as it can. The president-elect reportedly plans to pursue another “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran with the goal of “bankrupting” the country. Now he is threatening new...