The Trump administration is ending one of the biggest statistical scams in Washington. For thirty years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued an annual “food security” report that politicians used to fabricate an illusion of mass hunger. USDA announced...
Last week, Pope Leo XIV renewed his calls for peace in the Gaza Strip, this time by commending the various Catholic organizations who registered their solidarity with the besieged population of the territory. Since assuming the papacy in April, Leo has consistently...
Before the IDF launched its attack on Gaza City this month, the head of the Israeli military attempted to warn Benjamin Netanyahu’s government that the operation lacked a “political endgame” and it would endanger the lives of the hostages. Israeli Channel 13 reported...
Download Audio. In his first video interview, Scott brings Matthew Hoh on to talk about his initial reluctance to associate with the antiwar movement, the institutional pressure to keep the war in Afghanistan going, the horrific legacy of General David Petraeus and...
In an interview with Axios last week, Zelensky threatened to attack the Russian capital and request that allies provide Kiev with long-range missiles. Vice President Vance said it was possible to send Ukraine Tomahawks if the missiles were purchased by Europeans. On...
From about 1800 to the present the world's economy did something good, which looks to be permanent and looks to be justified. If contrary to the evidence we cling to our prejudices about economic history—our view that the Industrial Revolution was improverishng, or...
The first of three Patriot air defense systems that Israel retired has arrived in Ukraine. “The Israeli system has been operating in Ukraine for a month,” Ukrainian President Zelensky told reporters on Saturday. “We will receive [another] two Patriot systems in the...
The Israeli leader gave his speech to a mostly empty room after a mass walkout Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to a mostly empty room at the UN as delegates engaged in a mass walkout before the Israeli leader began speaking. Netanyahu claimed Israel had...
Trump fibbed when he signed his first executive order in January, the one that promised never to repeat the Biden-era barriers to free speech. Everyone knows this by now. FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) summed it up well, yet only scratched...
Few twentieth‑century champions of laissez‑faire economics have cast a longer shadow than Leonard Edward Read. Born in Hubbardston, Michigan in 1898, Read founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and wrote nearly thirty books and hundreds of essays. He...
