The U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics released new Consumer Price Index inflation estimates this morning, and the official numbers for June 2022 show that price inflation has risen to 9.1 percent year over year. That's the biggest number since November 1981, when the...
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Turning Off the Saudi Faucet in Yemen
by James R. Webb | Jul 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In modern dating parlance, “ghosting” is when someone suddenly stops returning your calls and seemingly vanishes as if your involvement was merely an apparition. Moreover, if the “ghost” unexpectedly returns, trust is undermined, and a continuation of any relationship...
Family’s House Burned, 15 Year Old Killed in SWAT Raid
by Matt Agorist | Jul 13, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
An innocent family is homeless and a 15-year-old boy is dead after a SWAT team engaged in a standoff to arrest a suspect for a parole violation. Police are now conducting damage control to avoid taking the blame. Last week, police said they were pursuing a suspect,...
From Russia to Ohio…to the Cancer Ward
by Ken Silva | Jul 12, 2022 | Featured Articles
Residents of Piketon, Ohio have long suspected that the area’s sky-high cancer rate stems from the nearby Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS), which served as a uranium enrichment facility for nuclear bombs throughout the Cold War. Recent reporting from Local...
Living With the Cuban Revolution, 60 Years Later
by Carlos Martinez | Jul 12, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
In his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia, Robert Nozick has a chapter named "The Tale of the Slave" in which he explains the nine phases from the most restrictive to more liberating states of slavery. He writes that even though enslaved people have certain forms of...
Top Gun: Maverick and Participatory Propaganda
by John Weeks | Jul 11, 2022 | Featured Articles
Top Gun: Maverick is a brilliant film. Any film that can elicit the praise of Ben Shapiro, Willie Geist and Russell Brand, receive a five-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival and make over $1 billion is, as the Stalinists would say, “objectively”...
A Dissenter’s History of the First World War
by Hunter DeRensis | Jul 11, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Just as villains can be more compelling than heroes, are dissidents more intriguing than the leaders of history? “I’ve been interested, in some ways, in the history of losers,” Justus Doenecke tells The American Conservative. Doenecke, who taught at New College of...
TGIF: Why Can’t You Shout “Fire!” in the Virtual Public Square?
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 8, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Almost 10 years ago the free-speech champion Trevor Timm, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the time and now with the Free of the Press Foundation, implored readers "to stop using the ‘fire in a crowded theater’ quote" to justify limits on free expression....