Recently when President Donald Trump shared an AI image of himself as the next pope in the wake of the death of Pope Francis, apparently in jest, it caused controversy. For neoconservative godson Bill Kristol, it created an opportunity to needle Vice President J.D....
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What Trump Misunderstands About William McKinley
by Patrick Carroll | May 8, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
It’s no secret that one of Donald Trump’s favorite U.S. presidents is William McKinley, who led the country from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. Indeed, Trump recently changed the official name of Denali back to Mount McKinley in honor of the late president. In...
State Schools: Bad Then, Worse Now
by John Weeks | May 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
On April 20, President Donald Trump dropped another executive order: Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities has been received by both supporters and critics as aiming at the complete elimination of the U.S. Department of Education...
Pension Problems and Socialist ‘Solutions’
by Owen Ashworth | May 7, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has provided yet another weapon for the socialists to wield in their war against free markets. The IMF published a report with the suggestion that the Baby Boomer generation could work into their 70s to save the economy: “70 is...
The Kashmir Powder Keg
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On April 22, 2025, militants opened fire near the Pahalgam area of Indian-administered Kashmir, killing twenty-six people—mostly Indian tourists. It was the deadliest attack on civilians in the region in over two decades. Within hours, New Delhi accused Pakistan of...
Do Trump’s Slick Comments Put Iran Talks in Jeopardy?
by Ted Snider | May 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
U.S. President Donald Trump’s unexpected answer on Sunday to an interviewer’s question has thrown his administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran into confusion. Trump has consistently said that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program are limited to...
The Settlers and the Exposure of Settler-Colonialism
by Kym Robinson | May 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
The talent of Louis Theroux is his ability to ask the most obvious questions with a disarming innocence. To draw out truth is a forgotten or less than celebrated trait in modern journalism. In his latest documentary, The Settlers, Thoroux is not a mouthpiece for the...
Nuclear Deterrence Requires Dozens Of Warheads — Not Thousands
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 5, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the next decade, the US government plans to spend nearly $1 trillion on its nuclear arsenal—with the actual cost certain to run even higher than that. The huge outlay is driven in part by the sheer size of America’s doomsday-weapon collection, which comprises an...
TGIF: On Value and Freedom
by Sheldon Richman | May 2, 2025 | Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
To live is to act. To act is to choose. To choose is to prefer. To prefer is to pursue values—that is, to value. That's logic-guided observation. Ego sum, ergo aestimo: I am, therefore I value. (HT: Aristotle, Ayn Rand, and Ludwig von Mises.) Next: to think is to act....
Klaus Schwab, Sophist
by Laurie Calhoun | May 1, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
The existence of Klaus Schwab became known to much of the thinking world during the Coronapocalypse, when so-called conspiracy theories began to flourish about the use of the novel COVID-19 virus as a pretext for reconfiguring the world. The “Great Reset” and the “New...
Let Colleges Fail!
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 1, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
In Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education, Richard K. Vedder delivers a timely, incisive, and much-needed diagnosis of America’s bloated and increasingly dysfunctional university system. Published by the Independent Institute,...
50 Years On, Washington Has Learned Nothing from Defeat in Vietnam
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Today, April 30, 2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the final, definitive defeat of the U.S. military crusade in Vietnam. The images of U.S. helicopters desperately flying American diplomats and Washington’s high-level South Vietnamese collaborators from the roof...
On Free Speech, Trump’s as Bad as Biden
by Jack Hunter | Apr 30, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In September, candidate Donald Trump vowed, “I will bring back free speech in America...I will sign an executive order banning any federal employee from colluding to limit speech, and we will fire every federal bureaucrat who is engaged in domestic censorship under...
Trump Revives the Alien and Sedition Acts
by Thomas Eddlem | Apr 29, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
President Donald Trump promised to revive the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 during his campaign last fall. “To expedite removals of this savage gang,” Trump pledged in an October campaign stop, “I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target and dismantle every...
100 Days: What Trump Told TIME
by Ted Snider | Apr 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
On April 22, U.S. President Donald Trump did an interview with Time on his first one hundred days in office. On foreign policy he made two bold claims. The first was that he would successfully conclude diplomatic deals in the Ukrainian-Russian war and in Iran. The...
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Russia, Ukraine Trade Accusations of Ceasefire Violations
Moscow and Kiev have accused the other side of hundreds of violations of a unilateral Russian ceasefire within hours of it taking effect. The Kremlin said the ceasefire took effect at midnight Moscow time on Thursday. After Russia announced a three-day pause in...
Ukrainian Drones Shut Down Moscow Airports Ahead of Victory Day Celebration
In the three days leading up to the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s WWII victory over Nazi Germany, Moscow’s main airports were shut down by long-range Ukrainian drones.
Thousands of Unexploded Israeli Bombs in Gaza Provide Hamas With Weapons
Hamas is using some of the thousands of unexploded bombs that now litter Gaza as weapons against the invading Israeli forces. Most Hamas munitions are created from cannibalizing dud bombs dropped by Israel.
US to Upgrade, Transfer Missile Defense from Israel to Ukraine
The Donald Trump administration is moving forward with a Joe Biden-era plan to move a retired Patriot missile system from Israel to Ukraine. Washington will upgrade the air defense platform before transferring control to Kiev.
Trump Says US May Walk Away From Ukraine-Russia Talks
President Donald Trump said at some point his administration may give up on attempting to bring an end to the war in Ukraine.
Israel Preparing Major Mobilization to Ramp Up Operations in Gaza
Tel Aviv is calling tens of thousands of reservists into active duty as the Israel Defense Forces fights a myriad of wars in Syria, Lebanon, and the occupied Palestinian territories. Many Israeli reservists have already served multiple deployments and are threatening to ignore orders to redeploy.
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What’s Happening w/Buck Johnson
Buck joined me to discuss fentanyl, drug addiction, boomer cons, media treatment of Trump, and what is going right and wrong in the Trump administration. ALP
100 Memers vs One Pamela Anderson
The social media feed gruel has switched it’s serving of slop from the speculation about the potential outcome of one hundred men versus a gorilla. The content creators who recycle the same shit, because of algorithms and trends now concern themselves with the...
Anti-War Blog – Too Thirsty to Cry
In the photo essay, Ethiopia : The Scorched Earth, Mary Anne Fitzgerald writes in the caption beneath a photo of a young girl crying, “Tears of hunger are a good sign. During the final stages of malnutrition children are too weak to cry.” There was Live Aid and U.S.A....
RIP: Remembering Edward Lozansky, Towering Prophet of Sanity, Decency, and Peace
Our friend Edward Lozansky left this world last week. He was a long-time writer for Antiwar.com. His many articles can be found here and on our blog here. He was president and founder of the American University in Moscow and the U.S.-Russia Forum. He is also a...
F35 Follies: Fat Amy Fails Again and Again
The F35 is in trouble in Europe. NATO observed the U.S. cut off its vital military aid deliveries to Ukraine, and choke Kyiv's access to American-derived intelligence in a bid to bend Ukraine to its will, namely to sit down at the negotiating table for ceasefire...
New Chasing Ghosts Podcast Episode is Live Monday 5 May 2025.
Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War" Military sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a government effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. It can take place...