A community in Tulsa joins together to stop city officials from following through with plans to tear down homes for “urban renewal” Tulsa, Okla.—Today, residents and supporters of Tulsa’s Pearl District announced the formation of a new group, Save the Pearl Coalition....
Libertarianism
New DNA Evidence Likely Exonerates a Texas Death Row Inmate. The Government Won’t Test It.
by Billy Binion | Nov 12, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Rodney Reed is set to die by lethal injection in less than two weeks. Time is running out for Rodney Reed, a Texas man on death row who is scheduled to die on November 20. There are many reasons to doubt Reed's guilt, but the most glaring one is that several experts...
Is The ‘Mother of all Bubbles’ About to Pop?
by Ron Paul | Nov 12, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
When the New York Federal Reserve began pumping billions of dollars a day into the repurchasing (repo) markets (the market banks use to make short-term loans to each other) in September, they said this would only be necessary for a few weeks. Yet, last Wednesday,...
Politicians Suffer Identity Crisis, Should Let Veterans Lead Instead
by Dan McKnight | Nov 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism
President Donald Trump withdraws U.S. troops from Syria and is broadly attacked. Hillary Clinton accuses fellow Democrat Tulsi Gabbard of being a “Russian asset,” and Congresswoman Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, calls Clinton...
My First Time to East Berlin
by Jim Bovard | Nov 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism
This is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall — one of the most glorious moments in the modern history of freedom. I first passed through that wall while hitchhiking around Europe in the summer of 1977. After camping in West German woods within mortar...
Crime and Punishment
by Jim Davidson | Nov 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment The guard closed the door. There was an inch of raw sewage water on the floor, and about twenty men were detained in the holding cell. David Mayer and I had been arrested on charges...
4 Reasons Why Socialism Is Becoming More Popular
by Alexander Zubatov | Nov 11, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The newfound openness of large numbers of Americans to socialism is, by now, a well-documented phenomenon. According to a Gallup poll from earlier this year, 43% of Americans now believe that some form of socialism would be a good thing, in contrast to 51% who are...
War Is Not a Conservative Thing
by Michael Maharrey | Nov 8, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
Perpetual war and aggressive interventionism have become the hallmark of Republican foreign policy. But war is not a conservative thing. Last month, I saw somebody assert unironically and in complete seriousness that Californians need to reelect Rep. Maxine Waters...