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There will be life after Trump one way or another, but in the long run, it seems as though the ruling party always wins. Original Article: After Trump, Then What? [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

In 2022, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used political favors and government grants to maneuver thousands of workers into jobs producing electric trucks. But consumers aren’t interested. Original Article: How Governor Whitmer Doomed Detroit Autoworkers [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

While South Africa’s political authorities pursue genocide accusations against other countries, those same leaders are destroying the nation’s economy and basic infrastructure. This is a failed state. Original Article: The "New" South Africa Is Now a Newly-Failed State: Don't Look for Things to Improve [embedded content]...

School choice would seem to have benefits, but as Thomas Sowell says: “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” Enthusiastic “school choice” proponents forget that with government money comes government control. Original Article: The Double-Edged Sword of School Choice [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

Another Pentagon audit, another massive failure. But the Pentagon's problems are not just simple accounting. They reflect the reality of an unaccountable rogue empire that tries to prop up the US empire. Original Article: What Can We Learn from the Latest Pentagon Audit? Both Plenty and Not Much [embedded content] Tags:...

The “One-China” policy assumes Taiwan to be a runaway province. The people of Taiwan, however, see their country as sovereign, and their reasons have merit. Original Article: Is Taiwan a De Facto Sovereign Nation or a Province of the PRC? [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

Some economists believe that the balance of payments is what determines currency exchange rates. In fact, exchange rates are always about the purchasing power of some currencies relative to others. Original Article: Does the Balance of Payments Determine Exchange Rates? [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

Seizure fever is toxifying law enforcement across the nation. For more than thirty years, federal, state, and local government agencies have plundered citizens on practically any harebrained accusation or pretext. You could be at risk of being pilfered by officialdom anytime you sit behind a steering wheel. Between 2001 and 2014, lawmen seized more than $2.5 billion in cash from sixty thousand travelers on the nation’s highways—with no criminal charges in most cases,...

[A selection from Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, Spring-Autumn 1967.] The chronic Middle East crisis goes back – as do many crises – to World War I. The British, in return for mobilizing the Arab peoples against their oppressors of imperial Turkey, promised the Arabs their independence when the war was over. But, at the same time, the British government, with characteristic double-dealing, was promising Arab Palestine as a “National Home” for...

Argentina’s Javier Milei is racking up some solid wins, with the fiscal basket case seeing its first monthly budget surplus in 12 years. Apparently, it took Milei just nine and a half weeks to balance a budget that was projected at 5% of GDP under the previous government. In US terms, he turned a 1.2 trillion-dollar annual deficit into a 400 billion surplus. In 9 and a half weeks. How did he do it? Easy: he cut a host of central government agency budgets by 50% while...