No other conflict in recent years has captured the emotions of so many people as Israel's war on Gaza, with the former's reputation taking blow after blow due to its own blows on thousands of Palestinian civilians’ lives. It is extremely revealing how small, recent...
Criminal Justice
Under Trump, Police Militarization Reaches a New Level
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 28, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Law enforcement in the United States has exhibited an exceptional degree of harshness, if not outright brutality, during the initial months of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House. A majority of the most flagrant examples have involved enforcement actions by...
Domestic Militarization is Trump’s Economic Plan
by Matt Wolfson | Jul 24, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
If spending on war is the politically easiest way to juice an economy, then the smoothest applications for this spending are wars at home, the easiest to begin and to control. This is why, at an accelerating rate since the 1990s, America’s government has waged wars...
Waco and the Death of Congressional Oversight
by Jim Bovard | Jul 22, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
How many atrocities can the federal government get away with? Americans are still vexed by the answers that Congress failed to deliver in 1995. Thirty summers ago, Washington was fixated by a Capitol Hill showdown over the greatest federal abuse of power of the...
Exponential Increase in Domestic Terrorism Reaches ‘Minnesota Nice’
by Coleen Rowley | Jul 7, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Horribly terroristic (and the apotheosis of weird) shootings in Minnesota—elaborately planned (and attempted) murders of top Democrat Minnesota legislators Melissa Hortman and John Hoffman (and their families) by a 57-year old who effectively disguised himself and his...
In Washington DC, It’s Still ‘Legal’ to Steal Your House
by Patrick Carroll | Jun 4, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
An old family home in Washington DC has become the latest center in the battle over home equity theft—a practice where government can legally seize a property to cover an unpaid tax debt, sell it for far more than the amount of the debt, and then keep all the money...
Marco Rubio’s Hunt for Renegade College Students
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jun 3, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Given Marco Rubio’s long history of subservience to the State of Israel—which has earned him a mountain of campaign cash from the country’s U.S.-based collaborators—many Americans were understandably wary that his ascension from senator to secretary of State portended...
COVID Doubts Made You a ‘Violent Extremist’
by Jim Bovard | Jun 2, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Biden administration policymakers hated you more than you knew. Four years ago, I warned at the Libertarian Institute: “Libertarians are in the federal crosshairs…Many libertarians assume they have nothing to fear because they are not engaged in seeking to violently...