Recently, Aaron Bushnell burned himself to death as the world watched. Because of the nature of his suicide, its location, and his reasons, he has become more than another statistic, unlike the many other serviceman who continue to take their life. He is a martyr to...
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Ukraine and the Pretense of Democracy
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 5, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When Russian forces expanded their military presence in Ukraine in February 2022, U.S. officials and most of the Western news media portrayed the development as a brazen act of aggression by a dictatorship against a peaceful democracy. The reality was much more...
Environmentalists Want to Doom the Developing World
by Owen Ashworth | Mar 5, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Climate change and the environment are becoming top issues in most developed countries. People know that humans are contributing to climate change, so they demand action with more done to preserve our very fragile planet. In the United Kingdom, politicians are pushed...
Best of the Best, Worst of the Worst
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Mar 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, History
The past few weeks have seen a predictable reaction to the release of (yet another) survey of “experts” regarding the proper ranking of United States presidents. Apart from the inherent problems any such attempted ranking poses, problems my colleague Hunter DeRensis...
The Stories You’re Not Hearing About the Russo-Ukrainian War…
by Ted Snider | Mar 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Several, seemingly small events in the Russo-Ukrainian War went largely unnoticed in western media recently. But each of them, in their own way, may be significant. The Fall of Avdiivka On February 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that 31,000 Ukrainian...
TGIF: Immigration in an Nth-Best World
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 1, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
We live in an nth-best society. It's neither fully libertarian (though libertarians disagree over exactly what that would mean) nor totalitarian like the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Maoist China, or North Korea. It's somewhere in between, closer to...
Our Bloody Cultural Psychosis
by Laurie Calhoun | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Imagine someone who did not know the difference between right and wrong and felt that he could, and should, take anything he wanted from anyone he wanted because, as far as he could see, there was no reason not to. If he wanted to buy something but was low on funds,...
Biden’s Yemen Policy Isn’t Working
by Trenton Hale | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For the last several weeks, the country of Yemen and their Houthi government have been in the news far more than they were during their war with Saudi Arabia. This is because the Houthis began to attack ships in the Red Sea, a frustrated reaction to the United States’...