President Donald Trump’s response to last week’s attack on the U.S. Capitol led Twitter to permanently ban him from its platform, and Facebook and YouTube closed his accounts on the grounds that he had used their platforms to incite violence. Then Apple and Google banned Twitter competitor Parler from its app stores, on the grounds […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has imposed some of the most stringent COVID-19 restrictions in America, and some Golden State residents are starting to revolt. Newsom’s “dictatorial attitude toward California residents while dining in luxury, traveling, and keeping his business open and his kids in private school is very telling about his attitude towards California residents, […]
Will Donald Trump give clemency to Ross Ulbricht, who is serving two life sentences plus 40 years without the possibility of parole for founding and operating the black market e-commerce platform called Silk Road? He’s considering it, according to two anonymous sources who spoke with The Daily Beast. The case for commuting Ulbricht’s sentence is […]
Some establishment journalists in the U.S. consider Julian Assange to be a criminal whose work doesn’t fit into the same category as their own. In April 2019, police dragged the WikiLeaks founder out of the Ecuadorian embassy where he’d lived for seven years after the U.S. government indicted him for allegedly helping Chelsea Manning access […]
On November 22, Los Angeles became the only county in America this winter to ban outdoor dining. The order, which will last a minimum of three weeks, will be financially devastating for many restaurants and could lead would-be diners to congregate in venues that are less safe. There’s no evidence that outdoor dining has contributed […]
President-elect Joe Biden is promising a return to normalcy in U.S. foreign policy following the turbulent Trump years, calling for “America to restore dignified leadership at home and respected leadership on the world stage.” Be careful what you wish for. Biden backed the wars in Iraq and Syria and drone-bombing campaigns in countries like Pakistan, […]
The 2020 presidential election gave libertarian voters few good options: A serially dishonest and incompetent leader who bungled the COVID-19 pandemic and imposed trade and immigration restrictions versus someone who promised $11 trillion in new spending, who played a role in many of the greatest policy failures of the last 30 years, such as the […]
In 2018, President Donald Trump teamed up with then–Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) to offer $4.5 billion in subsidies and tax incentives to the Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn in exchange for building a 20-million-square-foot factory in the rural community of Mount Pleasant. “I think we can say this is the eighth wonder of the world,” Trump […]
