The 2024 election is right around the corner, and libertarians have a choice to make. There are many legitimate options; libertarians have historically taken a number of stances, such as abstention, write-ins, voting for principled candidates or the lesser of two...
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TGIF: No Cheers for Decolonization(R)
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 28, 2024 | Economics, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
How can a libertarian oppose decolonization? Colonization not only oppressed conquered peoples, as the staunchest early classical liberals never tired of pointing out, but also burdened the taxpayers of the home country, who were forced to pay through the nose for...
Four Questions Joe Biden Should Have to Answer in the First Presidential Debate
by Ted Snider | Jun 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
On Thursday night, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will face each other in the first ever debate between a sitting president and a former president. Given their past performances, there are many questions each should have to answer. Here are four...
A Tiebreaker? Electoral College Rules Could Bring On Constitutional Crisis
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jun 25, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
While many Americans know that an Electoral College tie sends presidential and vice presidential elections into the House of Representatives and Senate, few realize there’s a constitutional crisis lurking in the incomplete rules for resolving such draws. In 2024,...
TGIF: What Free Market in Health Care?
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 21, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Contrary to a popular article of faith, America has no free market in health care—far from it. Consider this: the largest lobby in Washington, D.C., is—wait for it—the health care and health insurance industries. Last year, they spent 5.8 times the amount the...

Will Trump Learn from Bump Stock Battering?
by Jim Bovard | Jun 18, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
The Supreme Court last Friday struck down one of the most controversial gun control edicts in recent years. The ruling on bump stocks is being widely hailed as a victory for an expansive reading of the Second Amendment. But it is also a stark rebuke to Donald Trump’s...

TGIF: “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 14, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The famous line "We have met the enemy and he is us" is from Walt Kelly's comic strip, Pogo. Kelly adapted the line from a U.S. naval commandant who, during the War of 1812 against Great Britain, reported to his superior, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”...
What Inequality?
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 6, 2024 | Blog, Economics, Politics
According to research conducted by Phil Gramm, the late Robert Ekelund, and John Early, documented in The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate and summarized in this video: The bottom 20 percent of households have an average annual income...