The first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump presented a bleak picture of the future of U.S. foreign policy no matter who wins in November. On the most urgent and important foreign policy issue of the year, the...
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A Tale of Two Disputes: How China Handles Hanoi and Manila
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A recent article in the South China Morning Post caught my eye—the topic being why Beijing has taken such an apparently different approach to its territorial disputes with Vietnam versus the similar disputes it has with the Philippines. Given the now weekly near...
Walter Block Is a Zionist Extremist, Not a Libertarian
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Sep 11, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
In an episode of The Tom Woods Show published on August 30, 2024, comedian and libertarian political commentator Dave Smith debated the topic of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip with academic Walter Block, who argued in favor of the debate resolution that “The...
Politicians Can’t Think In the Long-Term
by Owen Ashworth | Sep 11, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
I’m a fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). For those unaware, this is the most dominant mixed martial arts (MMA) organization in the world. They put on fantastic pay-per-views at least once a month where fighters put every part of their being out there to...
Pro-War Lobby Attacks Alleged ‘Russian Influencers’
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Sep 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In recent weeks, there has been a surge of allegations that Moscow has long orchestrated an illegal campaign to influence U.S. public opinion. On September 4, 2024, the U.S. Justice Department charged two Russian media executives with an alleged scheme that...
Fighting the ‘Middle State’
by Brad Pearce | Sep 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
From around the middle of the twentieth century, federal agencies tasked with law enforcement, intelligence gathering, and various types of “defense” have accrued overwhelming power in the United States. Democrats, who now worship such agencies, may wail at the term...
Did the IRS Manipulate the 2020 Election?
by Jim Bovard | Sep 9, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
Hunter Biden pled guilty on Thursday to a barrage of federal tax crimes. But will the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department ever plead guilty to stealing the 2020 election for Joe Biden? In 2023, the IRS assessed 18,599,109 penalties on individuals who...
The Ultimate Case Against the Churchill Cult
by Keith Knight | Sep 7, 2024 | Don't Tread on Anyone, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Libertarianism
Editor's Note: Language originally referring to "poison gas" has been updated to "tear gas" for clarity. According to the National WWII Museum, the Second World War resulted in 45,000,000 civilian deaths, 15,000,000 combat deaths, and 25,000,000 soldiers permanently...