Scott interviews James Carden about his latest article, which explores the recent return of many prominent neocons to the Democratic Party in opposition to Trump. Carden reminds us that during the 1960s a group of hawkish Democrats moved over to side with the...
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9/5/20 Gareth Porter on Trump’s First Term Foreign Policy Record
Gareth Porter discusses President Trump's foreign policy as we near the end of his first term. The story of Trump's time in office, as everyone knows, has been that despite his sense for the futility and unpopularity of America's endless wars, he, like Obama before...
A Protected Class: Police Union Issues ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards to Civilians
Known as blue privilege, there is an unwritten law among police officers: when they catch their fellow cop, or even their fellow cop’s family member or friend breaking the law, they are let go without consequence. Situations that have led to the murder of minorities...
9/4/20 David Henderson on the Supposed Economic Threat of China
Scott interviews David Henderson about the threat to the U.S. posed by China's growing stature as an economic powerhouse. In general, Henderson thinks that such concerns are overblown, citing the real economic figures behind the trade relationship. In particular, he...
9/4/20 Trevor Timm on the Vindication of Edward Snowden
Trevor Timm discusses an important new ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which says that the NSA's mass data-gathering program, famously exposed by Edward Snowden, was illegal all along. It also came out during the court proceedings that not a single act...
The Greatest Enemies of Free Speech in America: the Israeli Government
I know you might have thought it was the cancel culture crazies on Twitter. Yeah right. They're nothing compared to the Israeli government and their traitorous American fifth column pushing to outlaw criticism of their lousy, lawless, Jim Crow, apartheid police state....
Police Reform In Congress Is All Talk, and No Action
A friend, and reader of the Libertarian Institute, asked me a few questions recently. Why did a group of protestors demand that Rand Paul say Breonna Taylor’s name when he was the senator that introduced the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act? Why do we see very little...
Jerome Powell Is Stealing Your Wealth
The Federal Reserve has doubled down on its policy of devaluing your money. During a speech in Jackson Hole last week, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced a shift in the central bank’s inflation policy. In the past, the central bank has targeted a 2...
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