As a libertarian commentator who’s spent years dissecting the bloated machinery of the federal government, I’ve watched with a mix of fascination and fury as the executive branch assumes powers that the Constitution explicitly reserved for Congress. The recent Supreme...
The ground is moving under American politics, and the fault line runs straight through U.S. foreign policy. We unpack how the Israel–Gaza war turned into a domestic litmus test that hardens the left and the right while squeezing the center into brittle talking points....
Data shows that Ukraine’s ability to shoot down incoming Russian drones has decreased in recent months. Ukrainian Air Force data analyzed by ABC News shows that in October, it was only able to down 4,200 of the 5,300 drones fired by Russia. At the start of the year,...
Military officials said Russian forces made gains in southern and eastern Ukraine. On Tuesday, the commander of the Ukrainian military, Oleksandr Syrskyi, admitted that his force’s position had "significantly worsened" in Pokrovsk. Pokrovsk is viewed as critical in...
President Donald Trump sent a letter to Israeli President Issac Herzog requesting a pardon for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu has fought multiple corruption charges for years. "While I absolutely respect the independence of the Israeli Justice System,...
Corporate taxes and other taxes on investment constitute double and sometimes triple taxation. That's more unjust than taxation of labor or consumption. Businesses can't pay taxes; only people can. But who pays business taxes need bear no relation to whom the...
Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk and Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko have resigned following a corruption investigation that was made public earlier in the week. Some of the officials allegedly involved in the scheme are allies of Ukrainian President Zelensky. ...
Responsible Statecraft tends to have a more common sense approach to the profligate spending on the part of the American defense establishment. The retirement of the entire ICBM arm and cancellation of the Sentinel successor would save enormous amounts of money wasted...
When American newspapers framed President Donald Trump’s September visit to Great Britain as the latest symbolic exchange between a dominant empire and a faded one, they followed the approach generally desired by these exchanges’ operators and missed the bigger...
Editor's note: This article is the opening statement given by Libertarian Institute managing editor Keith Knight in his Zerohedge debate with author James Holland on the merits of fighting the Second World War which took place on November 6, 2025. You can watch the...
