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Politicians promise they’ll “help” us. President Donald Trump says he’ll “create the jobs and future you deserve.” President Joe Biden liked to say, “Help is on the way.” I prefer President Ronald Reagan’s: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'” An economy runs best when government gets out of the way and lets free market competition work. Economist Donald Boudreaux gets that, and it’s why The Triumph of Economic Freedom is the title of his new book. Boudreaux explains in my new video: “The more we move away from…
The Iraq War didn’t just “happen” it was sold with a storyline, staffed by specific operators, and justified by a strategy that had been circulating for years. I’m joined by Scott Horton of the Libertarian Institute to unpack the Clean Break doctrine, what it tried to achieve for Israel’s right wing security vision, and how a set of wildly wrong assumptions helped push the US into a war that ended up strengthening Iran instead of containing it. We walk through the mechanics of how the war case was built: exile sourcing, the Office of Special Plans, alternative intelligence streams, and…
To the Americans who spent their childhoods racing through the wet grass of suburban soccer fields-and who eventually traded soccer for something else: This summer, come back to the beautiful game, writes Jillian Lederman. Source link
Are You There God? It's Me, Spielberg Source link
France seeks to rebrand itself as a partner of African sovereignty rather than as a custodian of neocolonialism while the living legacy of anti-colonial resistance across Africa remains a decisive force. Anthony Okello, Kenya, Orders from Above, 2012. (Via Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) By Vijay PrashadTricontinental: Institute for Social Research On May 11-12, at the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, French President Emmanuel Macron stood in front of more than thirty African heads of state and announced, “We are the true Pan-Africanists.” This was an extraordinarily obnoxious comment that was sandwiched between bureaucratic banalities about ‘growth,’ ‘innovation,’ and ‘partnerships.’ In…
How the Machine Buried Spencer Pratt Source link
A month in London. I looked forward seeing family and friends, and the bookstores, and the affordable theater (in fact, most things are more affordable than in New York) and the easy interraciality of the place, and the low-slung Georgian and Victorian rows—and always, the efflorescent green. I also anticipated seeing America—and Trump—from a distance. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link
Inflation rose to 4.2 percent year-over-year in May, the highest level since April 2023, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics consumer price index report. Energy shocks from the Iran War accounted for 60 percent of the price increases.Energy prices continued to soar, rising by 3.9 percent, following a 3.8 increase in April and 10.9 increase in March.Exempting volatile items like food and energy, inflation rose 2.9 percent, still above the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target. This report marks the third consecutive increase in consumer price inflation, which had stabilized in the months before the war in Iran began. The…
After spending more than a year in the political wilderness, former president Joe Biden and his family are suddenly everywhere again. Jill Biden has been touring the country to promote her book and rehash many of the arguments surrounding Joe’s decision to end his re-election bid. Hunter Biden recently joined Substack and X, his early […]Read More…Read Full Article ⟶ Source link
There is a lot of political discourse about “affordability,” but the meaning of the term can be difficult to pin down. Is it just a jargony way of talking about high nominal prices? Is it really all about housing? Could it be, as President Donald Trump has suggested, a “con job” invented by Democrats to make his administration look bad? Different people will have different answers, and I suspect we will continue to debate those questions through the midterms and into the 2028 presidential cycle. But probably the most straightforward way to think about the “affordability” question is the relationship…