Tariffs are a tax that a country imposes on itself. It imposes costs in the same way that a tax on gas or beef imposes costs.

In these first 100-plus days of the nation’s 47th presidency, President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk have cast a ...

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Among the Trump administration’s many disturbing shifts in foreign policy, one of its more shameful moves has been to use ...

Empire’s don’t collapse; they commit inevitable suicide by destroying their primary sources of wealth: respect and industry.

Every kid has heard “No means no!” when they want something their parents don’t think they should have. This week that phrase ...

People in cults often find it nearly impossible to get outside the cult outlook on the world. This is very much true of the ...

The Israeli bombing of Gaza since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack has been marked by one demand: the release of all Israeli hostages ...

Former presidential advisor-cum-rightwing podcaster, Steve Bannon, often mentions that discerning the truth of Trump's policy goals entails ...

The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it.  It was the one rare occasion in ...

Ancient oak trees rise above gigantic boulders scattered across a high desert mesa in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest. This ...

Jimmie Christian Duncan learned in April 2025 that a Louisiana judge had dismissed his capital murder conviction and he would ...