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The U.S. Murders of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, Part 3

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 27, 2025

Part 1 | Part 2 Imagine that in 1970, a right-wing, procapitalism, pro-U.S. candidate had been elected president of Chile. Imagine that in 1973, a Chilean communist group armed by communist Cuba had successfully implemented a coup that had installed a communist dictator into power and left the democratically elected Chilean president dead. Imagine that Chilean communist forces ...

Trump’s Everywhere War: An Insurrection Against the Constitution

by John W. Whitehead October 24, 2025

When they came in the middle of the night, they terrorized the families that were living there. There were children who were without clothing, they were zip tied, taken outside at 3 o'clock in the morning. A senior resident, an American citizen with no warrants, was taken outside and handcuffed for three hours. Doors were blown off their hinges, ...

Will Trump End Sham Democracy Promotions?

by James Bovard October 21, 2025

The Trump administration has slashed federal spending for democracy promotion efforts around the globe. That rollback of U.S. meddling is perhaps the most positive foreign-policy reform of the Trump presidency. Since 1946, the U.S. government has intervened in more than a hundred foreign elections to assist its preferred candidate or party. Democracy is so important that the U.S. government refuses ...

Parallel Polis Reborn: Freeing the Market through Decentralized Technologies

by Michael S. Milano October 20, 2025

In a surveilled society where property rights are undermined and truth is distorted, freedom demands building alternatives beyond the regime’s reach. Within the Soviet bloc, Václav Benda advocated for the creation of an invisible society as a form of resistance. To combat the atomization of the citizenry, he called for the construction of parallel structures. As he explained in a ...

The Right to Try

by Laurence M. Vance October 17, 2025

In all of the founding documents, the 13 states are referred to in the plural. In the concluding paragraph of “The unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen united States of America,” which is always referred to as merely “The Declaration of Independence,” it says that the 13 colonies or states “are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent ...

Inflation, Immorality, and Destruction

by Angelo Monaco October 16, 2025

"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end," ( E. Kant ) Inflation during the four years of the Biden administration left the average American worker with 20% less spending ...

Russia’s Collectivist Cult of the Strong State

by Richard M. Ebeling October 15, 2025

In April 2004, I attended a Cato Institute conference in Moscow, Russia. The highlight of the event was when prominent members of the Cato staff, including the Institute’s president, Ed Crane, held a four-and-a-half-hour-long meeting with Valdimir Putin, president of the Russian Federation, at his residence outside of Moscow. When they returned to the hotel venue of the conference, almost ...

Liberation on the Subject of Freedom

by Gary Galles October 14, 2025

If one were to describe the positions to which Leonard E. Read, the founder of The Foundation for Economic Education, adhered consistently in a lifetime devoted to liberty, there are many phrases which could be used. But one especially accurate description is that he was adamantly devoted to the liberation of people from their misunderstandings on the subject of ...

Howard Homan Buffett: Rothbard’s Favorite Anti–Cold War Warrior, Part 1

by Wendy McElroy October 10, 2025

Part 1 | Part 2 The prospect of a military draft has roared back into America’s national conversation. On June 14, the House of Representatives passed a bill to automate the already mandatory registration of every male required to do so. The Senate is currently (July 10) working on a different version of the bill that requires ...

Cancel the FCC, Not Jimmy Kimmel

by Laurence M. Vance October 7, 2025

Turnabout may be fair play, but there is nothing conservative about it. I have never watched Jimmy Kimmel Live! other than occasionally seeing a video clip. Neither have I ever watched late-night talk shows staring Seth Myers, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien, or David Letterman; again, other than seeing a video clip. I think the only late-night talk shows ...

FFF’s New Civil Liberties Series

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 6, 2025

The Future of Freedom Foundation is pleased to announce its new Civil Liberties Series entitled “The Critical Importance of Civil Liberties.” For the following six weeks, our weekly Libertarian Angle will be converted into a special format that will consist of a presentation on civil liberties by a guest speaker, followed by discussion with Libertarian Angle co-hosts Jacob ...

The U.S. Murders of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 6, 2025

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 During the three-year period 1970–1973, the CIA had to have been in close contact with top officials within the military-intelligence branch of the Chilean government. We have evidence of only some of those contacts, and those still-secret CIA records undoubtedly contain evidence of many more. But this is where common ...