On the eve of America’s 250th anniversary, Americans are asked to accept and pay for a government that knows more about us than we do about it, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
A Requiem for Privacy
Category: Until This Day–Historical Perspectives on the News
The World After America
Alfred W. McCoy on the the causes and consequences at home and abroad of U.S. global decline.
A Nation of Suspects
We now know that the U.S. federal government spies on innocent citizens without suspicion and without warrants, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
China & a World Order on the Verge of Collapse
The bilateral guardrails erected in Beijing last week may buy time, but they do not fix global governance institutions drifting toward a rupture that historically has preceded systemic collapse, writes Tatiana Carayannis.
The Comey Indictment & Free Speech
If the U.S. government can’t leave free speech alone, then its oath to the Constitution and the Constitution’s stated guarantees are meaningless, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Israel’s Yellow-Line Annexation in Gaza
Israel’s imposition of a ceasefire Yellow Line constitutes territorial theft with better branding, writes Ahmad Ibsais. It puts Trump’s plan for the continued colonization of Gaza into operation.
Vijay Prashad: Iran’s Civilizational Strength
The way Iran has been able to stand up to the West has become a source of admiration across the formerly colonised world. Where does that confidence come from?
Military Disasters & the End of Empire
Alfred McCoy on the history of imperial misadventures and how defeat in the Iran War will accelerate U.S. global decline.
American Heresy
Congress defied the plain meaning of the Fourth Amendment when it said data gathered by warrantless surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act could be used by the F.B.I. for prosecution purposes, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Vijay Prashad: Hormuz — Gate to the Great Sea
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a choke point for the world economy, with the gravest consequences falling not on the powerful but on the poorer nations of the Global South.