“Tariffs,” President Donald Trump is fond of reminding us, “is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary.” It’s the most beautiful word “because tariffs are going to make us rich as hell. It's going to bring our countries businesses back that left us.” And...
January 22 is a convenient reminder that modern American libertarianism did not begin only in seminar rooms, courtrooms, or party platforms. It also began on the book page, where a few writers treated state worship as an intellectual mistake rather than a civic duty....
Editor's note: The quote from Sheldon Richman has been updated to better reflect his views. On January 7, Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by an employee of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during deportation operations in Minneapolis,...
The next time you wire money internationally, consider this: someone in Washington or Brussels can decide you don't get to complete that transaction. Not because you broke any law. Not because a court found you guilty of anything. But because a U.S. Treasury...
This month a statement from leaders of some of the most ancient Christian churches around Jerusalem condemned “damaging ideologies, such as Christian Zionism” that “mislead the public” and “sow confusion” that “have found favor among certain political actors in Israel...
Donald Trump presented himself as someone who would end America's perpetual conflicts and chart a fresh course in global affairs. Supporters routinely placed him alongside noninterventionist figures such as Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul, insisting he would deliver...
Trump is hardly the first con man in the White House, but he is by far the most flagrant, and his scale is gargantuan. He's also rather inept. His latest confession came in a recent message to Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store: Considering your Country decided...
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday called for Minneapolis to “set up a peaceful protest zone so that these individuals can exercise their First Amendment rights and do so peacefully.” Since 9/11, “free speech zones” have been one of the...
In the comic theater of American politics, few spectacles are as reliably absurd as the utopian promises of protectionism. Donald Trump's tariffs, hailed by their proponents as a bold strike against foreign exploitation, have instead proven to be a blunt instrument of...
In the endless parade of Fox News neocons, Ari Fleisher, the press secretary who helped George W. Bush gaslight the American people into the Iraq War, explained recently that while Donald Trump appears to have desisted from fresh attacks on Iran, he’s merely buying...
With President Donald Trump’s deposition of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and Israel’s and Argentina’s adoption of the Isaac Accords to promote “commercial development,” the contours of a new Latin America may be coming into focus. This is a Latin America where the stick...
There are many metrics by which U.S. President Donald Trump’s first year back in office can be measured. Some will measure it by tariffs and the economy, some by ICE and immigration, and some by civility and democracy. But, from a foreign policy perspective, the best...
Donald Trump has proven Horton’s Law, that politicians only keep their bad promises, true once again. He was always a New York Democrat billionaire, and he was never going to be a champion of working people or free markets. Trump is a Likudnik, not America First, and...
One of the positions that conservatives pride themselves on most is their dedication to free markets. They extol the virtues of the free market in pamphlets and speeches, and they regularly denounce the idea of government control. A recent post on Twitter/X from Nikki...
On January 16, 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood beside Chinese President Xi Jinping to announce what he called a landmark agreement that fundamentally restructured trade relations between the two nations. The deal slashed tariffs on Chinese electric...
On January 19, 1808, Lysander Spooner entered a world in which slavery, bureaucracy, and government monopolies defined the law. Born near Athol, Massachusetts, he grew up on a farm with parents who refused to surrender to prevailing conventions. His father, Asa, an...
Welcome to the Trumpian ICE Age, a vivid lesson in the frigidity of collectivism. Take note, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Compared to Trump, you're a piker. We've got a problem, and it's not just Houston's. It's the lawless, authoritarian, liberty-flouting...
Recent U.S. missile strikes in northwest Nigeria, ordered by President Donald Trump on Christmas Day 2025, were heralded by the administration as a decisive blow against ISIS-linked militants persecuting Christians. Yet, as investigative reporting has revealed, the...
