Conservatives are cheering and progressives are crying about the recent Supreme Court decision in the case of Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, which was consolidated with Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North...
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Is the United States Pursuing a Permanent Cold War with Russia?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 11, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There is growing speculation about how the Russia-Ukraine war might eventually end. Three competing scenarios are strong possibilities. The most likely outcome is a definitive Russian victory after a grinding, bloody struggle lasting several more years. As time drags...
Mearsheimer Predicts a Grim Future for Eastern Europe
by Zachary Yost | Jul 11, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The war in Ukraine has been going on for over a year and shows little signs of abating anytime soon. This is bad news for the people of Ukraine, who continue to suffer from Russian missile strikes and from their own government dragging men off the streets to send off...
‘The Most Massive Attack Against Free Speech in United States History’
by Jim Bovard | Jul 10, 2023 | Featured Articles
Sometime since January 2021, Biden administration policymakers decided that they were infallible—or a “close enough for government work” level of infallible. They claimed a divine right to suppress the online posts and comments of conservatives and anyone else who had...
As France Disintegrates, Gun Control Leaves Citizens Defenseless Against Rioters
by The Free Thought Project | Jul 10, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In case you missed it, France entered into a pseudo-civil war this past weekend. Rioters took to the streets, destroyed billions of dollars in local property, violent criminals pulled out their illegal guns, and there was nothing the average disarmed Frenchman could...
TGIF: Good News on Free Speech — for Now
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Occasionally, the news makes one cheer. That's the case with a preliminary injunction granted this week (July 4) to stop the federal government from suppressing lawful speech on social media. U.S. District Court Judge Terry A. Doughty took the action in the case of...
As America’s Influence Wanes, China’s Grows
by Ted Snider | Jul 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In recent weeks, the world has been vibrating with multipolarity in ways barely picked up by the mainstream news. Iran is a regional power that pursues a foreign policy that defies U.S. hegemony and refuses to get in line with the American vision of a unipolar world....
The Fake China Threat, Then and Now
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Republicans are terrible on China. Examples abound, but perhaps the most instructive illustration of this long-term handicap comes from the following quotation: “We must be prepared to go it alone in China if our allies desert us. We must not fool ourselves into...