Daily Articles

James Comey and the Unending Bush Torture Scandal

by James Bovard July 1, 2018

The vast regime of torture created by the Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks continues to haunt America. The political class and most of the media have never dealt honestly with the profound constitutional corruption that such practices inflicted. Instead, torture enablers are permitted to pirouette as heroic figures on the flimsiest evidence. Former FBI chief James Comey is the ...

Seven Implications of Protectionism

by Laurence M. Vance July 1, 2018

In a speech on the campaign trail in 2016, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said about Hillary Clinton and trade, Hillary Clinton unleashed a trade war against the American worker when she supported one terrible deal after another, from NAFTA, to China to South Korea. It doesn’t matter. No matter where she went, the American worker was hurt and you’ll ...

The Deep Hurt

by Stephen Kinzer July 1, 2018

More than a century has passed since American hearts were first seized by the grand debate about overseas expansion. During that period, much of what anti-imperialists predicted has come to pass. The United States has become an actively interventionist power. It has projected military or covert power into dozens of countries on every continent except Antarctica. In many places, ...

How to Drain the Swamp: End the Failed War on Drugs, Part 2

by David Stockman July 1, 2018

Part 1 | Part 2 According to the most comprehensive investigations, the United States spends nearly $50 billion per year on the war on drugs — including about $34 billion annually at the state and local level for police, courts, and incarceration. By contrast, it is estimated that were drugs to be legalized and taxed at the ...

The Danger Is Real

by John W. Whitehead June 29, 2018

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the ...

Five Hundred Days of the Welfare/Warfare/Police State

by Laurence M. Vance June 28, 2018

Earlier this month, Donald Trump reached his 500th day in office. A White House “Fact Sheet” touted “Trump’s 500 Days of American Greatness.” Many Republicans and conservatives were jubilant, and sang Trump’s praises. And of course, Trump himself, on his 500th day in office, tweeted that he had “accomplished a lot — many ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 1

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 27, 2018

In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: Trade and Immigration Controls (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 26, 2018

If the free movement of goods is beneficent and desired, does that not also hold true for people? And more importantly, don't people have the right of free movement? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

Tariff Wars and the Fallacy of the Balance of Trade

by Richard M. Ebeling June 25, 2018

The world may be on the brink of a series of trade wars between the United States and both the European Union and China. All the parties say they don’t want this — though President has asserted that trade wars are not a problem and easy to win. That remains to be seen! It may have become a cliché, but ...

We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State

by John W. Whitehead June 21, 2018

“We’re run by the Pentagon, we're run by Madison Avenue, we're run by television, and as long as we accept those things and don't revolt we'll have to go along with the stream to the eventual avalanche.... As long as we go out and buy stuff, we're at their mercy… We all live in a little Village. ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Licensure Racket (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 19, 2018

FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling discuss how government licensing violates the non-aggression principle and distorts the market. Go to the podcast.

An “Identity Politics” Victory Would Mean the End of Liberty

by Richard M. Ebeling June 18, 2018

America started a “great experiment” in human history, that being the ideas of individual freedom and limited government. All of history before this assumed that the individual was subservient to the tribe, and governments had nearly absolute power over people in the form of ruling kings and princes. Today, again, there are counter-revolutions against this great experiment in human liberty. ...