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A Critique of Pure Hasbara
by John Weeks | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Hasbara is a central feature of genocidal Zionism: “Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has successfully created a new illogic of its own; an illogic that has made the illegal seem legal, the immoral appear moral and the undemocratic sound democratic. It has...
On Wealth Inequality, the Left Has a Point
by Thomas Eddlem | Jun 12, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
The federal government has been waging a war against the middle class and working poor since at least 1970. Wealth inequality has steadily increased since the early 1970s, and it’s not a coincidence. It’s a result of a series of policies. The government wants the...
Joe Biden’s Time Interview Should Set Off Alarms
by Ted Snider | Jun 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On May 28, U.S. President Joe Biden gave an interview to Time. His delivery and content were concerning for a number of reasons. Biden, at times, seemed misinformed and detached from reality. Sometimes, he seemed off message; other times, he seemed convinced by his...
DOJ, Lay Off Live Nation!
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 11, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) finally came out with their long anticipated antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment. Alleging anti-competitive practices which “suffocates its competition,” everyone’s least favorite Attorney General (since...
Why Libertarians Loathe Tariffs
by Laurence Vance | Jun 11, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump loves tariffs. In his 2011 book Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again, Trump included as part of his five-part tax policy “a 20 percent tax for importing goods.” During his first campaign...
Politicians Will Always Be Damn Rascals
by Jim Bovard | Jun 10, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Former President Donald Trump was recently convicted by a New York jury after prosecutors claimed he was guilty of “hoodwinking” voters in the 2016 election by paying to cover up his boinking of a beefy porn star. Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg proclaimed that Trump...
Government Has Turned Universities and Businesses into DEI Bureaucracies
by David Brady | Jun 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on May 13, announced that they would be diverting the $2.3 million that the university spends on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies toward campus safety amidst protests over the...