America’s “prison industrial complex” appears to be all about stats. Anyone who is a huge sports fan knows that stats are king when it comes to competition. In baseball, no one will ever beat Cy Young’s 511 career wins (or his 315 losses for that matter). It’s been a...
Justice
The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment: Understanding the Court’s Landmark Decisions
by Sam Jacobs | Aug 13, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice
The Second Amendment is one of most fundamental provisions of the Bill of Rights, and one of the most fiercely debated. Since it was first put to paper, legal scholars, gun owners and anti-gun activists have engaged in an endless discussion over the meaning and scope...
‘Paperz Pleaze!’ – How the Immigration Crackdown is Expanding the Police State
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 2, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
A common trope in American-made, Nazi propaganda movies, was that in their police state, at any moment and for no reason, you could be stopped and forced to show your “papers.” Well, maybe not forced but if you didn’t the implications were obvious. You might be “black...
Why Did They Bomb Black Wall Street?
by Zack Sorenson | Jul 27, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Op Eds, Politics
In 1921, the black dominated Greenwood community in Tulsa, Oklahoma was one of the wealthiest in the city. The presence of nice hotels, jewelry shops, and so forth earned it the nickname: "Black Wall Street". By the end of the year, members of the city's white...
Policing For Profit: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Has Perverted American Law Enforcement
by Sam Jacobs | Jul 25, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice
Picture this: You’re driving home from the casino and you've absolutely cleaned up – to the tune of $50,000. You see a police car pull up behind you, but you can’t figure out why. Not only have you not broken any laws, you’re not even speeding. But the police officer...
Nothing Personal…Except Your Freedom
by Phil Gibson | Jul 24, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
What is freedom? How do we protect it? As a libertarian, anarchist, agorist, minarchist, collapsatarian, or whatever liberty-minded label your strut from this radical spectrum, it's easy to get bogged down by the difference between human rights (civil rights/personal...
Weapons of War On Our Streets: A Guide to the Militarization of America’s Police
by Sam Jacobs | Jul 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
The claim often heard from those attempting to pass more gun control legislation is that all they’re trying to do is get the “weapons of war off our streets,” but it’s simply untrue that “weapons of war” are available to the general public. You’d last about three...
Independence Day: The Forgotten History of America’s 4th of July and What It Commemorates
by Sam Jacobs | Jul 4, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Every American knows what Independence Day is. Alongside Christmas and Thanksgiving, it’s one of the few holidays that hasn’t fallen prey to having to be celebrated on the closest Monday, rather than the actual day it falls on. However, less known is the history of...