On September 11, the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed by the director of the Asia Engagement Program at Defense Priorities and director of the China Initiative at Brown University, Dr. Lyle Goldstein, on the need for Washington to work to improve its relations with...
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The Philosophy that Framed the Constitution
by Dan Sanchez | Sep 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Today [September 17] is Constitution Day in America. The federal holiday (technically Constitution Day and Citizenship Day) commemorates the signing of the US Constitution on September 17, 1787. The 2004 law that established it requires all taxpayer-funded educational...
Economic Nationalism and Corporatism Go Hand in Hand
by John Weeks | Sep 17, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Former President Donald Trump could return to power in 2025. We can expect a second Trump administration to give us more of the same: economic nationalism. This is concerning because economic nationalism degrades our economy, impoverishes our citizens, and promotes...
To Promote Peace, You Must Fight Statism
by Oscar Grau | Sep 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
U.S.-Zionist imperialism in the Middle East is far from coming to an end. The Hamas attack of October 7 on Israel triggered a highly murderous phase in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The subsequent retaliation of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and...
Drone Swarms and the Homicidal Impunity of Governments
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Drone swarms have been under development for years now, with the usual suspects touting the virtues of the latest and greatest automated technology to be purchased through lucrative government contracts for what are claimed to be purposes of national defense. As the...
Pragmatic Genocide
by Kym Robinson | Sep 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
The lesser of two or many evils is a line of reasoning that tends to favor the status quo. It compromises principles and human dignity to a point where we are made to understand the benefits of injustice and less freedom. We are told, it could always be worse. If one...
TGIF: The Russians Are Coming? The Russians Are Coming?
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an...

Double Standards Reveal the True Western Strategy
by Ted Snider | Sep 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Two recent events in Europe have the potential to send shock waves well beyond the continent. They are significant both in themselves and in how their double standards chisel away at the West’s heroic narrative and reveal its true cynical strategy. The first is...