Trump's Tariff Wall Returns With Forced-Labor Duties On 60 Countries

Federal Judge Blocks New York From Enforcing $75 Billion Climate Superfund Law Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal judge ruled on Monday that New York cannot enforce a 2024 state law that sought to impose an estimated $75 billion in charges on carbon-emitting companies for allegedly causing climate damage between 2000 and 2018. Chief U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes in Syracuse, New York, sided with 22 Republican state attorneys general, as well as industry groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in finding the state measure preempted by...

The Penal Leviathan: What Wacquant And Rothbard Reveal About Modern Punishment Authored by Luc Lelièvre via Mises Institute, Loïc Wacquant and Murray Rothbard come from completely different worlds. Wacquant, in Punishing the Poor (2009), analyzes how modern states manage marginalized populations through policing and incarceration. Rothbard, in The Ethics of Liberty (1982), argues that the state is a monopoly of coercion and that real justice means restitution to victims rather than punishment imposed by the government. At first glance, they seem to have nothing in common. Yet, when you look closely...

Romanian officials on Sunday claimed one of their pilots shot down a Russian drone in Romanian airspace on Friday, July 24. They claimed two more Russian drones were shot down over the weekend. In response, Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded a Monday meeting with Russia’s ambassador to Romania, Vladimir Lipayev. They presented him with […]