“We’re going to do everything we can to keep a wider war from breaking out,” U.S. President Joe Biden promised when war erupted in Gaza. But that foreign policy legacy is in tatters. War has spread from Gaza to Lebanon and has arrived at the doorstep of Iran. There is...
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Madisonian Liberalism Has Utterly Failed (But It Can Be Fixed)
by Thomas Eddlem | Oct 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
“I had no hesitation to declare that I had but one Gentleman in my Mind for that important command, and that was a Gentleman from Virginia who was among Us and very well known to all of Us, a Gentleman whose Skill and Experience as an Officer, whose independent...
FEMA Still Paying $9,000 For COVID Funerals, Billions On Pandemic Payouts
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Oct 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
As the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) carries out widely-criticized responses to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, officials say the agency’s Disaster Recovery Fund is incapable of handling a third major storm. While some are circulating false accusations that...
Hollywood Hasbara
by Kym Robinson | Oct 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
With its Ernest Gold score enhancing its cinematic majesty, the 1960 film Exodus tells you point blank that it’s an epic motion picture, a religious story of great myth and significance and a cast who depict historical figures in a dramatic way that transcends flesh...
Hurricanes Are Not Going Away; How Can We Adapt?
by Connor O'Keeffe | Oct 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
Two weeks ago, Hurricane Helene slammed into the Deep South and parts of Appalachia, bringing devastating floods to a region often spared from strong hurricanes. A variety of factors combined to make Helene an especially dangerous storm. First, it formed over the Gulf...
Americans Must End Israel’s Serial Slaughter of Gaza’s Children
by Connor Freeman | Oct 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It's time for the American people to stand up to Washington and demand an immediate end to the endless support the United States has provided to apartheid Israel for its killing spree during the past year. For fifty-seven years, Israel has subjected millions of...
Do They Want American Troops to Die?
by Dan McAdams | Oct 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Biden administration mismanagement—or worse—from day one of the latest Israeli multi-front war in the Middle East has led us to where we are today, at the brink of an all-out regional war with some 40,000 U.S. troops and multiple U.S. military bases in the region with...
TGIF: Full versus Shrunken Liberalism
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 11, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Language, like the old common law and other customs, is a decentralized, undesigned, spontaneous institution. It serves humanity well. Nothing is perfect, of course, but no alternative—if one were conceivable—could hold a candle to it. One of the downsides is that...