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by José Niño | Jan 19, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On January 16, 2026, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stood beside Chinese President Xi Jinping to announce what he called a landmark agreement that fundamentally restructured trade relations between the two nations. The deal slashed tariffs on Chinese electric...
by Alan Mosley | Jan 19, 2026 | Featured Articles, History, Libertarianism
On January 19, 1808, Lysander Spooner entered a world in which slavery, bureaucracy, and government monopolies defined the law. Born near Athol, Massachusetts, he grew up on a farm with parents who refused to surrender to prevailing conventions. His father, Asa, an...
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 16, 2026 | Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Welcome to the Trumpian ICE Age, a vivid lesson in the frigidity of collectivism. Take note, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Compared to Trump, you're a piker. We've got a problem, and it's not just Houston's. It's the lawless, authoritarian, liberty-flouting...
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 15, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recent U.S. missile strikes in northwest Nigeria, ordered by President Donald Trump on Christmas Day 2025, were heralded by the administration as a decisive blow against ISIS-linked militants persecuting Christians. Yet, as investigative reporting has revealed, the...
by Alice Johnson | Jan 15, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Wars don't usually start with someone deciding to unleash chaos. They start with confidence—a belief that risks are manageable, responses predictable, consequences containable. History tells a different story. The most destructive conflicts emerge not from clear...
by Alan Mosley | Jan 14, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
During a January 2026 interview with The New York Times, President Donald Trump was asked whether anything could limit his ability to use the vast military and economic power of the United States as he saw fit. His answer was breathtakingly candid. Trump replied,...
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 14, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite the widespread expectation that President Donald Trump would end Washington’s entanglement in NATO’s proxy war using Ukraine against Russia, it is increasingly evident that the fundamental features of U.S. policy remain unaltered. Trump personally has sent an...
by Jim Bovard | Jan 13, 2026 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
“There is no censorship here in Germany,” according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have freedom of speech except for ideas that politicians and government contractors and nonprofit activists don’t like. Germany is...
by Brad Pearce | Jan 13, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
After much back and forth it appears that "Florida Man"-occupied government prevailed, and on overnight on January 4, as if they are the Cuban Mafia or something, the Trump administration broke into Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s house and spirited him to...
by Laurie Calhoun | Jan 12, 2026 | Featured Articles
In 2025, Palantir CEO Alex Karp released his first book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West. The work was co-authored by fellow Palantirian (as they fondly refer to themselves) Nicholas W. Zamiska, who serves as the firm’s...
by Saul Zimet | Jan 12, 2026 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Tucker Carlson, who has recently been identified in The New York Times as “arguably at this point the most significant media figure on the American right,” gave a telling account of his political priorities in his speech at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in late...
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 9, 2026 | Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman
Apart from a few details, I never saw much difference between Trump's America First shtick and MAGA's chief foe, the neconservatives. It appeared to be merely a squabble over details, such as whether democracy or strongman rule abroad best served the so-called...
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 8, 2026 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
From trade frictions to security flashpoints, the new year ahead promises a mix of continuity and potential volatility in U.S.-China relations. While Beijing’s growth in relative power—economic, technological, and military—continues, it is not aimed at “taking over...
by José Niño | Jan 8, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On November 16, 2025, Ecuadorian voters delivered a decisive rebuke to Washington's expansionist ambitions in Latin America, rejecting a proposal to overturn the country's constitutional ban on foreign military bases by a commanding 60.56%-39.44% margin. The...
by Thomas Karat | Jan 7, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Modern wars have a peculiar discipline: they are carefully organized to happen far from the capitals that authorize them. Decision-making remains insulated, prosperity remains intact, and political life continues uninterrupted—while destruction, instability, and...
by Roman Gelperin | Jan 7, 2026 | Featured Articles
In early 2024, Rick Doblin—the man whose work launched one of the biggest social and cultural movements of our time, “the Psychedelic Renaissance”—was expecting to see the crowning achievement of his life’s mission. The non-profit he led and founded, the...
by Matt Wolfson | Jan 6, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Donald Trump’s January kidnapping and deposition of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the subsequent “government-by-coercion” in the name of economic “development” is arguably America’s most dramatic imperial action in Latin America in history. But it...
by Ted Snider | Jan 6, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At 4:21 in the morning of January 3, U.S. President Donald Trump posted, “The United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown...
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A call from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convinced President Donald Trump not to order an attack on Iran last week. Netanyahu was concerned that the attack would not be decisive, and Israel would be unable to repel an Iranian counterattack without more...
A Nigerian activist’s disputed statistics, adopted by several US Republicans and echoed by President Donald Trump, have come under fresh scrutiny after they were used to justify American airstrikes on Christmas Day. Emeka Umeagbalasi, a screwdriver salesman who runs...
President Donald Trump has announced a 10% tariff on eight European countries that have objected to his efforts to “purchase” Greenland, insisting that Washington must control the territory for the sake of “world peace.” Announced on Saturday, Trump said the “strong...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Donald Trump, requesting that the US delay an attack on Iran. Other Middle Eastern countries have asked Washington not to start a new war with the Islamic Republic. According to the New York Times, on...
US forces captured another tanker carrying Venezuelan oil in the Caribbean. After President Donald Trump declared a blockade of Venezuelan oil, the US has seized six tankers. “In another pre-dawn action, Marines and Sailors from Joint Task Force Southern Spear, in...
Hamas confirmed that one of its senior commanders in Gaza was killed by an Israeli strike. Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said that local al-Qassam Brigades commander Muhammad al-Hawli was killed in Deir al-Balah on Thursday. The Palestinian group said the attack...
Turkish intelligence has warned Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that Kurdish fighters have been entering Iran from Iraq amid protests inside Iran, Reuters reported on Wednesday. An unnamed senior Iranian official speaking to the outlet said that the...
Listen to the article with analysis from the author: President Donald Trump has a more limited range of options for attacking Iran now than he did in June. The US has moved military assets out of the Middle East in recent months, including moving an aircraft...
Listen to the article with analysis from the author: There are multiple indicators that the US will soon launch an attack on Iran. Iran and the US appear to be positioning their military for war, and a Western military official warned that an attack could be...
Listen to the article with analysis from the author: President Donald Trump called on Iranians to continue protesting. Rights groups say at least 500 people have been killed since demonstrations began over two weeks ago. “Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE...
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Missed signals are costly; misplaced confidence is worse. We open by unpacking the concrete indicators that war planners watch—carrier deployments, airspace changes, and last‑minute strike deliberations—and what they tell us about the real likelihood of a U.S. hit on...
He stood composed, the wind pushed him. The trees waved and leaned above and around. Clouds considered rain, though retained a deep grey. Birds, breeze and his own breathing a convalescence of harmony. He was alone. Standing as if on a horse, the ancient position...
What happens when war becomes a market and foreign policy turns into an odds board? We dive into the uneasy world of prediction platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi, where traders place bets on battlefield maps, covert raids, and even the exact words politicians will...
The Greenland drama is amusing but reality about the players is rather sobering. A casual look at Russia's habitual military presence in the Arctic for generations dispels any illusion. Europe is presently making lots of noise in a scheduled exercise in Greenland to...
A young woman lies dead on a Minneapolis street, an ICE officer pulled the trigger, and the official story leans on power instead of necessity. We open with what the footage actually shows, why the shot trajectory matters, and how a federal investigation shifts...
Dear NATO and EU/SSR, Keep this in the back of your mind in your salons and conference rooms in Brussels: “Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.” Frederick the Great
Occam's Razor provides the easiest answer to the "day care" fraud splashed across the media: NO government subsidy whatsoever. Then when you discover fraud in other government programs you do the same, eventually the fraud is reduced. Simple, elegant and logical
Yes! NATO members are actively planning a military confrontation with US forces in the event of a Greenland operation. I am indifferent to adding Greenland to US territories. This isn't without historical precedent. Greece and Turkey have nearly come to blows on...
