When the internet went mainstream at the turn of the twenty-first century, it was widely celebrated as a revolutionary force for freedom and democracy. Its decentralized architecture promised to empower…
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The US seizure of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is being framed publicly as a counternarcotics and democracy-restoration operation. But it is oil — not cocaine or fentanyl — that sits…
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W.E.B. Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts (where AIER is now headquartered), in 1868. Today, this towering figure of the early civil rights movement is remembered as a…
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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are widely – but wrongly – panned as unregulated casinos or Ponzi schemes that create no real value. For example, US Senator Elizabeth Warren called crypto…
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The shocking capture and extradition of former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife over the weekend is the culmination of months of US pressure on the regime. President Trump…
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Recently, Minnesota and Governor Tim Walz have come under scrutiny for Medicaid Fraud. The debacle received renewed focus on December 1 when Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent posted on X that…
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Recently, two Federal Reserve governors delivered speeches with interesting differences. Michael Barr warned against weakening bank supervision, citing “growing pressures to scale back examiner coverage, to dilute ratings systems” that…
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Elon Musk recently put forth a bold vision: that within two decades, AI will automate virtually all productive activity, work will be optional, and money will lose meaning. Coming from…
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On January 3, 1976 — 50 years ago — the United Nations’ “International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights” entered into force with the backing of the Soviet Union…
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Zohran Mamdani garnered a bit more than 50 percent of the vote in the recent New York City mayoral election. Have voters learned nothing from history? Apparently not. As Nobel…