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...
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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...

Zombie Congress: The Democracy of the Dead
by Thomas Eddlem | Apr 21, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
How does Congress pass budget spending levels these days? It doesn’t. It’s really that simple. The federal government’s $6.95 trillion budget will spend more than $52,000 per household in America in 2025 and it is spending more than $38,000 of that without a single...

The ‘Foreign Policy Consensus’ Is Alive and Well in Washington
by José Niño | Apr 17, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Despite branding himself a political outsider, President Donald Trump’s foreign policy reflects a deep continuity with the bipartisan consensus that has defined U.S. interventionism since the Cold War. Trump made ending America’s involvement in “endless wars” a...
Exclusive: Rand Paul Gives History Lesson on Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates
by Jack Hunter | Apr 14, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Whether it was President Barack Obama ordering airstrikes on Libya and Syria over a decade ago, or President Donald Trump directing strikes on Yemen and the Houthis today, non-interventionists often insist these presidents need congressional approval, as the...
The Deep State Manages Elections, At Home and Abroad
by Thomas Eddlem | Apr 9, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
Blatant election corruption is now the rule rather than the exception across the western world, including in the United States. Elections now serve only one purpose in modern government: They perpetuate the illusion of an elected government that makes decisions. This...
How Bernie Sanders and the Democrats Made Elon Musk the Richest Man in the World
by Thomas Eddlem | Apr 1, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
Just before Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) started their ongoing series of rallies against Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, Sanders stopped by Face the Nation on CBS and hilariously exclaimed in feigned outrage: “We're...
Only Thomas Massie Understands the Problem of Tesla ‘Terrorists’
by Jack Hunter | Apr 1, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
As Donald Trump's administration rushes to call the vandalism of Teslas across the country “terrorism,” at least one Republican is not comfortable with doing so. In a recent story for Semafor on Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), reporter David Weigel highlighted...