When Congress discusses banning TikTok to keep our children safe from Chinese government spying, what do they really have in mind? And is it a pretext to bring back the military draft? The debate conjures up memories of when Congress adopted children’s interests in...
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Can a Libertarian Support ‘Law and Order’?
by Laurence Vance | Apr 17, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The election year of 1968 was a tumultuous one marked by the assassinations of Sen. Robert Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, urban race riots, college antiwar demonstrations, and a Democratic National Convention that saw the Chicago police and the...
TGIF: Has Libertarianism Passed Its Sell-By Date?
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 14, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Ron DeSantis, who could be the next president of the United States, made his views frighteningly clear: "We understand that freedom is not just about the absence of restrictions.... I think we have to understand that the threats to freedom are not simply as a result...
A Frightful Australia Must Emerge from Under the Yank’s Skirt
by Kym Robinson | Apr 13, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Frightened County is what Alan Renouf, one of Australia’s most prominent public servants, called Australia in his 1979 book of the same title. Renouf’s book is a delicate balance of criticizing past Australian alliances and military adventures while also embracing...
For 90 Years, U.S. Farmers Have Been Getting This Handout
by Connor O'Keeffe | Apr 13, 2023 | Featured Articles
The 2018 Farm Bill is due to expire this year, and U.S. lawmakers have already begun working out the next version. This food-related omnibus bill was introduced ninety years ago as a “temporary” measure during the Great Depression. It’s been reauthorized by Congress...
WATCH: One Cop Holds Person Down, the Other Bashes Their Face In
by Matt Agorist | Apr 13, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In a sickening display of police brutality, reminiscent of countless incidents we've exposed before, a Flint police officer was caught on camera mercilessly assaulting a handcuffed man. What should have been a routine arrest will now cost Flint taxpayers dearly all...
America’s Mission in Ukraine is Creeping Towards World War III
by Brian Clark | Apr 12, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In February 2022, when Vladimir Putin sent 200,000 of his troops to topple the Ukrainian government, the Biden administration was quick to respond. Within days of the invasion, it approved $350 million worth of weapons to be sent to Ukraine, as well as a series of...
How One Undercover FBI Agent Infiltrated BLM and the Militia Movement
by Ken Silva | Apr 12, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In August 2020, an FBI undercover agent code-named “Red” unsuccessfully tried to foment a plot to assassinate Colorado’s attorney general. The next month, an FBI undercover agent with the same code-name and physical description played a major role in the conspiracy to...