Israel resumed its genocidal military operation in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, March 18 with a massive overnight bombardment that killed 404 Palestinians before midday, including 263 women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Among the dead...
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Israel’s Minions Smeared an American Hero
by John Weeks | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
American libertarians, regardless of their preferred faction, understand the state is a monster. We view the state the way Karl Marx viewed capitalism (demonic) or William Lloyd Garrison viewed slavery (cannibalistic). Sadly, American libertarians live under the most...
Even Realists Overstate the ‘China Threat’
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Mar 26, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Perusing the most recent edition of Foreign Affairs, which was typically dreadful, one piece caught my eye. In “The Taiwan Fixation,” Stephen Wertheim and Jennifer Kavanagh argued that a full-scale U.S. military intervention over Taiwan would be catastrophic, and that...
Mahmoud Khalil and the Battle of Technocrats vs. Activists
by Matt Wolfson | Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is one of those events that can divide a room, or an X space, just by being referenced. The facts are deceptively simple. A Palestinian student at an Ivy League University on a foreign visa who organized protests at which some participants...
Chronicle of An Unnecessary War: How the West Provoked Russia and Squandered Peace
by Michael Holmes | Mar 24, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Scott Horton’s 900-page masterpiece, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, is a hugely important work that meticulously documents how three decades of Western encirclement provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....
The End of U.S. Soft Power?
by Brad Pearce | Mar 24, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Donald Trump's second term has been something of a mixed bag with some very bad foreign policy moves and a ridiculous and cynical crackdown on anti-Israel dissenters. But it has also featured an incredible war against some of the worst aspects of permanent government....
American Efforts to Separate Russia from China are Doomed to Fail
by José Niño | Mar 20, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, there was an initial sense of hope that he would wind down the conflict in Ukraine. However, continued flows of military aid to Ukraine and slow progress in the negotiations still make a lasting peace...
With a Ceasefire Imminent, Thousands of Ukrainians Have Died in Vain
by Ted Snider | Mar 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine with a small force of around 142,000 troops. Not enough to conquer Ukraine, the invading force was sufficient to persuade Ukraine to the negotiating table. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that was the original...