Daily Articles

The Abyss Gazes Back

by Matthew Harwood February 14, 2017

The United States of Jihad: Investigating America’s Homegrown Terrorists by Peter Bergen (New York: Crown Publishers, 2016); 400 pages. It took only a few hours after two Islamic State suicide bombings ripped apart the departure hall of Brussels Airport and subway cars in central Brussels for Sen. Ted Cruz to offer a “do something” solution to the threat ...

Economic Ideas: Karl Marx, the Man Behind the Communist Revolution

by Richard M. Ebeling February 13, 2017

When Karl Marx died in March 1883, only about a dozen people attended his funeral at a cemetery in London, England, including family members. Yet, for more than a century after his death – and even until today – there have been few thinkers whose ideas have been as influential on various aspects of modern world history. Indeed, as ...

Let the States Decide

by Laurence M. Vance February 10, 2017

The federal minimum wage was instituted by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The rate was initially set at $0.25 an hour. By 1961, it had quadrupled to $1.00 an hour. The federal minimum has been at $7.25 an hour since 2009 — the result of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 that raised the federal minimum ...

The FBI: The Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich

by John W. Whitehead February 9, 2017

“After five years of Hitler’s dictatorship, the Nazi police had won the FBI’s seal of approval.”— Historian Robert Gellately “Adolf Hitler is alive and well in the United States, and he is fast rising to power.”—Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, on the danger posed by the FBI to our civil liberties Lately, there’s ...

David Stockman: Time to End the War on Drugs

by David Stockman February 8, 2017

Watch David Stockman present his perspectives on why America needs to end the war on drugs. This presentation is part of FFF’s Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate the end of this immoral and destructive government program.

The Libertarian Angle: Welfare versus Charity

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 7, 2017

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling talk about the differences between voluntary charity and coerced "charity." Go to the podcast.

Presidential Inaugurations and the Politics of Stealing Apples

by Richard M. Ebeling February 6, 2017

According to the Nielsen ratings, over 30.6 million people watched Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration on television on January 20, 2017. The newly sworn in president soon was in a battle with the mainstream media about whether this was larger or smaller than the numbers who watched Barack Obama’s swearing in, in 2009. But whether the number of viewers was larger ...

A Billion Dollars of Federally Funded Paranoia

by James Bovard February 3, 2017

When it comes to mindless excess in the war on terror, it is difficult to compete with the 70+ fusion centers bankrolled by the Department of Homeland Security. They began to be set up around the nation shortly after 9/11 as federal-state-local partnerships to better track terrorist threats. But the centers have been a world-class boondoggle from the start. Fusion ...

Rule by Brute Force

by John W. Whitehead February 2, 2017

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”—Ayn Rand The torch has been passed to a new president. All of the

Paul Armentano: Time to End the War on Drugs

by Paul Armentano February 1, 2017

Watch Paul Armentano present his perspectives on why America needs to end the war on drugs. This presentation is part of FFF’s Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate the end of this immoral and destructive government program.

The Assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Immediately after the bombing that killed Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt, Michael Moffitt began screaming, “DINA!” “Assassins!” The Washington, D.C., police who had arrived on the scene were mystified. Who the heck is Dina? they wondered. Moffitt was referring to the National Intelligence Directorate, an internal military-intelligence force within ...

How Food Stamps Subverted Democracy, Part 3

by James Bovard February 1, 2017

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Barack Obama took office in 2009 amidst the worst recession since the early 1980s. He had more faith in government spending than any White House occupant since Franklin Roosevelt. He speedily pushed through a stimulus bill through Congress that helped increase the number of food-stamp recipients from ...