Recent reports indicate the United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus, allegedly to facilitate a security agreement between Syria and Israel. This development represents yet another misguided expansion of American military...
Americans who value civil liberties are justifiably outraged at reports about some of the enforcement tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Similar complaints are now surfacing about the behavior of ICE’s sister agency, Customs and Border...
Across the American political spectrum, support for the State of Israel is steadily eroding. With the long-running, staggeringly expensive redistribution of American wealth and weapons to one of the world’s most prosperous countries under unprecedented threat,...
Once again, the U.S. global military empire is the father of the fear that it propagates. And this time it’s right here in our own backyard. Just as freezing Russia’s dollar assets has encouraged foreign central banks’ gold accumulation and driven global...
The proposed merger of Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) "could be a problem," Donald Trump says, because Netflix has "a very big market share. When they have Warner Bros., that share goes up a lot." He said he would consult "some economists" on the matter,...
The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy of the United States of America, published last week, presents itself as a decisive break from the bipartisan foreign policy consensus that has shaped Washington’s posture since the end of the Cold War. In some...
On December 5, 1886, on a windswept homestead near De Smet in Dakota Territory, Rose Wilder Lane entered a world of adversity. She was the only surviving child of Laura Ingalls and Almanzo Wilder. Within a few short years her family’s cabin burned, her parents were...
If you attempt to smuggle heroin into Indonesia, where I happen to be writing this sentence, and you are caught and convicted of doing so, then you will be subject to the death penalty. There are other places in the world as well where smuggling drugs is, by law, a...
The Guardian, among other mainstream outlets, have reported the revelation of senior British military officers covering up the war crimes of the Special Air Service (SAS) units while deployed in Afghanistan during the Global War on Terror. The whistleblower, an...
With the retirement next month of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in the face of vociferous attacks from President Donald Trump, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is the only member of any of the three branches of our government who consistently and on principle opposes...
There was a time, not long ago, when the United States had the social etiquette to conduct its coups clandestinely. That is important because it means they recognized that it is wrong. Coups were carried out by the CIA, and we often only found out years later. Now,...
When President Donald Trump announced that Kazakhstan would join the Abraham Accords after a celebratory call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kazakhstan President Kassym Jomart Tokayev, he treated the move as another triumph of personal diplomacy...
Since its creation in 1949, NATO has been the keystone of U.S. foreign policy in Europe. Indeed, the alliance has been the most important feature of Washington’s overall strategy of global primacy. America’s political and policy elites have embraced two key...
Although much has already been said, I can't not comment on Sarah Hurwitz, the former Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama speechwriter, who faults young people (especially young Jews) for applying their power of abstraction in thinking about the Holocaust. What do I mean...
Austrians are used to being called cranks. Point out that inflation is a hidden tax, that monetary expansion distorts the structure of production, or that fiat currency erodes living standards in ways far subtler than headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers ever...
When journalism reveals a government’s dirty deeds, a country founded on constitutional constraints faces a stark test. Reports allege that a senior U.S. official ordered Special Operations commanders to “kill everybody” on a suspected Venezuelan drug boat in...
The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are justifiably provoking outrage. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.” Donald Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that...
Most Americans are unaware that President Abraham Lincoln implemented a much more centralized and authoritarian government than the one he inherited. He overthrew the original union, which was very libertarian in policy, eradicating a union of consent and replacing it...
