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June 30, 2014
Blog

Immigration Enforcement Aids Smugglers – Unaccompanied Children Edition
… and increase in penalties for unlawful crossers does not represent a decrease in total enforcement. Matt Graham from the Bipartisan Policy Center wrote an excellent breakdown of the reprioritization of immigration enforcement, the increase in penalties, and how it has …
By Alex Nowrasteh
June 30, 2014
Forbes

From Iraq to Ukraine, From Syria to Yugoslavia: Terrorists Who Wrecked the Modern World a Century Ago are Creating More Wars Today
World War I demonstrated the importance of saying no.
By Doug Bandow
June 27, 2014
Orange County Register

Stay out of the Mideast
… sirens of death. Attempting to forcibly transform Iraq never was Washington’s responsibility. Having botched the job once, U.S. policymakers should not try again. There was much to despise about Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, but he helped constrain Iran …
By Doug Bandow
June 27, 2014
Blog

Is the Export-Import Bank More Important than Economics?
… Not.” There will always be challenges for U.S. companies in a global economy. Small, targeted amounts of mercantilist industrial policy like Ex‐Im subsidies will not create growth regardless of the character of those challenges. In other words, subsidies …
By K. William Watson
June 27, 2014
National Interest (Online)

From Stalwarts to Scapegoats: America’s Foreign Clients
… that a change of leadership would make the troubling developments go away. It is a lazy, naïve style of foreign policy that ignores far deeper causes of instability in many of Washington’s client states. [pullquote]We must stop portraying …
By Ted Galen Carpenter
June 27, 2014
Caixin Online

The Fed’s Stimulus Is a Chimera
… large‐scale asset purchases to suppress longer rates, the Fed has increased risk taking, depressed saving and investment, allowed monetary policy to grease the wheels of big government, and misallocated capital. Low rates have reduced the velocity of money, and …
By James A. Dorn
June 26, 2014
Blog

Drones Risk Putting US on ‘Slippery Slope’ to Perpetual War
Drones encourage us to think we can repair problems we cannot, feeding our tendency to see U.S. military power as the answer to distant political conflicts
By Benjamin H. Friedman
June 26, 2014
Blog

Big Business Clashes with Libertarians and Tea Party over Ex-Im Bank
A battle in Congress over the Export-Import Bank pits libertarians and Tea Party supporters against the country’s biggest businesses.
By David Boaz
June 26, 2014
China-US Focus

China’s Participation in RIMPAC Exercise: Model for Future Cooperation?
It will be up to Beijing, its Pacific neighbors, and the U.S. to find other opportunities to further invest the PRC in the existing geopolitical order.
By Doug Bandow
June 25, 2014
Blog

Small Is Beautiful
A handsome new DownsizingGovernment.org bumper sticker!
By Chris Edwards
June 25, 2014
Blog

Sugar from Mexico: Who’s Being Injured?
Those who support economic growth and opportunity should hope that no suspension agreement is reached, and that the ITC ends the threat of AD/CVD duties by concluding that Mexican sugar has not injured the U.S. sugar industry.
By Daniel R. Pearson
June 25, 2014
Blog

The Truth about Military Spending
We are still spending too much on our military, because we are still asking our military to do too much.
By Christopher A. Preble
June 25, 2014
Blog

Poland’s Alliance with America: Worthless to Whom?
Americans always felt sympathy for the plight of the Poles—for centuries stuck among avaricious empires. Although unfortunate, even tragic, Poland’s situation is no casus belli for the United States.
By Doug Bandow
June 25, 2014
Blog

Are Beef Prices at An All-Time High?
The World Bank data shows remarkable stability in the inflation-adjusted price of ground beef over the last half-a-century.
By Marian L. Tupy
June 25, 2014
National Interest (Online)

Is Poland’s Alliance with America “Worthless”?
Sikorski’s comments should be a wake-up call in America.
By Doug Bandow

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Immigration Enforcement Aids Smugglers – Unaccompanied Children Edition

From Iraq to Ukraine, From Syria to Yugoslavia: Terrorists Who Wrecked the Modern World a Century Ago are Creating More Wars Today

Stay out of the Mideast

Is the Export-Import Bank More Important than Economics?

From Stalwarts to Scapegoats: America’s Foreign Clients

The Fed’s Stimulus Is a Chimera

Drones Risk Putting US on ‘Slippery Slope’ to Perpetual War

Big Business Clashes with Libertarians and Tea Party over Ex-Im Bank

China’s Participation in RIMPAC Exercise: Model for Future Cooperation?

Small Is Beautiful

Sugar from Mexico: Who’s Being Injured?

The Truth about Military Spending

Poland’s Alliance with America: Worthless to Whom?

Are Beef Prices at An All-Time High?

Is Poland’s Alliance with America “Worthless”?