Coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s run for New York City mayor is focused on the outsized politics at play in the race: democratic socialism, Islam, state-owned grocers, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, until recently incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, and President Donald Trump. But...
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Greasy Poles and Slippery Promises
by Owen Ashworth | Oct 13, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
Not averse to rearranging the proverbial chairs on the deck of the Titanic, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, has reshuffled the members of his government. This comes after his deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, was forced to resign after...
TGIF: Hooked on the State
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 10, 2025 | Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Since the government partial shutdown began, we've been seeing panicked headlines about states being denied federal money for promised or already-started energy and infrastructure projects. Other sorts of subsidies are also in jeopardy. You'd think that not getting...
TGIF: Trump Fibbed about Favoring Free Speech
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 26, 2025 | Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Trump fibbed when he signed his first executive order in January, the one that promised never to repeat the Biden-era barriers to free speech. Everyone knows this by now. FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) summed it up well, yet only scratched...
How Zionists Hijacked MAGA
by Matt Wolfson | Sep 24, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
On the Wednesday of the last week of July, a former Florida State University employee approached a man wearing an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) shirt on campus and began berating him for his support of a state she believed was committing genocide. By the next day, she...
Promises Made, Promises Betrayed
by Alan Mosley | Sep 22, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
In his polemical essay Vision of the Anointed, economist Thomas Sowell argues that grand political visions seldom survive contact with reality. Politicians promise to banish war and debt, only to preside over more of both. The bigger the promises, the easier it is to...
TGIF: Social Peace through Government Retrenchment
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 19, 2025 | Economics, Featured, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
For at least 200 years, classical liberals (aka libertarians) have warned that the more power the government wields, the greater the lengths people will go to get their hands on it before their ideological opponents do. This is not rocket science, yet resistance to...
Billionaire Bill Ackman’s Plan to ‘Educate’ America’s Next Elite
by Matt Wolfson | Sep 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Empires, unlike revolutions, don’t have heralds; they work off quiet aggrandizements of power, not bold declarations of freedom. But America’s imperial class appears to have a member who’s missed that memo: the Zionist hedge fund manager William Ackman, a...