On COI #246, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest developments in Ukraine and Iraq. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

"The first casualty of war is truth." This simple yet profound statement is attributed to many, including Hiram Johnson in a speech in the U.S. Senate in 1918, during the "war to end all wars." Hiram Johnson was a progressive Republican who had...

“Today’s inflation report,” US president Joe Biden told us on March 10, “is a reminder that Americans’ budgets are being stretched by price increases and families are starting to feel the impacts of Putin’s price...

The U.S. and Russia, possessing over 13,000 nukes between them, are at war. By imposing economic sanctions designed to collapse the Russian economy, and funneling billions in weaponry into Ukraine to combat the Russian invasion, the US has taken sides, aiding...

In my report on “Day Sixteen” of the Ukraine-Russia war a couple of days ago, I provided a brief summary of the opening segment of the 9 March edition of the Russian political talk show “Evening with Vladimir Solovyov.” I directed special attention to the words of...

After spending the last three decades primarily focused on Europe, the Middle East, and Asia it appears U.S. foreign policy will see a sharp increase in attention to Latin America. Though light on details, Marco Rubio’s Western Hemisphere Security Strategy Act of 2022...

We hold in our hands vast power to both create and destroy, the likes of which have never been seen in history.The nuclear age inaugurated by U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 almost reached its deadly culmination in October 1962, but Kennedy and...

The US weapons sector had a good day on Thursday, with Senator Rand Paul’s effort to block a $2 billion weapons sale to Egypt rejected in the upper chamber. President Joe Biden, meanwhile, vowed to grant Colombia a “non-NATO major ally designation” and made good on...

On COI #245, Kyle Anzalone updates the wars in Ukraine and Syria. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

Reprinted from EconLib with permission.Why would a rational person believe a government? Given the politicians’ and their minions’ incentives to lie and their capacity to avoid (their low cost of avoiding) accountability, there can be only one...