Featured Articles

Martial Law Disguised as Law and Order: The Oldest Trick in the Authoritarian Playbook

Martial Law Disguised as Law and Order: The Oldest Trick in the Authoritarian Playbook

by | May 7, 2025 |

“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison We are being frog-marched into tyranny at the end of a loaded gun. Or rather, hundreds of thousands of loaded guns. Let’s not mince words: President Trump’s April 28 executive order is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook: martial law masquerading as law and order. Officially titled “Strengthening and Unleashing America’s Law Enforcement to Pursue Criminals...

read more
Why Doesn’t the ‘Deal-Maker’ Close the Deal?

Why Doesn’t the ‘Deal-Maker’ Close the Deal?

by | May 6, 2025 |

The story, both on Ukraine and Iran, is that President Trump wants a “deal” – and both deals are available – yet he seems nonetheless to have boxed himself in. Trump presents his Administration as being something rougher, meaner, and far less sentimental. It aspires to emerge, apparently, as also something more centralized, coercive, and radical. In domestic policy, there may be some truth to this categorisation of the Trumpian ethos. In foreign policy, however, Trump tergiversates. The reason...

read more
Will America Survive?

Will America Survive?

by | May 6, 2025 |

The foreign policy of the United States is in the hands of the least capable, most uninformed, and most reckless morons the American education system has yet produced, and their successors, if any, will be worse. American aggression toward the world is hidden under a euphemism:  “national defense.”  In past years before  euphemisms took over from reality, the Secretary of Defense was known as the Secretary of War. Washington conducted wars against Mexico. Against...

read more
It Was Never About Hostages. It Was Never About Hamas.

It Was Never About Hostages. It Was Never About Hamas.

by | May 5, 2025 |

Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that freeing the Israeli hostages in Gaza was not his top priority, suggesting instead that defeating Hamas should take precedence over a hostage deal. “We have many objectives, many goals in this war,” Netanyahu said. “We want to bring back all of our hostages. That is a very important goal. In war, there is a supreme objective. And that supreme objective is victory over our enemies. And that is what we will achieve.” Nothing the prime minister...

read more
Tariff and Spend

Tariff and Spend

by | May 5, 2025 |

President Trump has proposed using the revenue from his increased tariffs to lower or even eliminate income taxes — with a priority on removing Americans making less than 200,000 dollars a year from the tax rolls. Exempting more Americans from income taxes — and lowering taxes on other Americans— is certainly a worthwhile endeavor. However, replacing income taxes with tariffs may have negative consequences for the very Americans President Trump wants to help. Replacing with tariffs what the...

read more
Agent Waltz?

Agent Waltz?

by | May 3, 2025 |

The Washington Post is reporting today that recently-ousted National Security Advisor Mike Waltz may have been involved in activities even more nefarious than inviting journalists onto highly sensitive Signal group chats. It appears that what really angered President Trump is less Waltz's incompetence (or worse) in keeping sensitive military communications secure, but rather his taking an active role in doing the bidding of a foreign government. As the Post reported, in advance of Israeli...

read more
Will We See Mushroom Clouds Over Kashmir?

Will We See Mushroom Clouds Over Kashmir?

by | May 3, 2025 |

One of the world’s, oldest and most dangerous conflicts went critical this past week as nuclear armed India and Pakistan traded threats of war. The Kashmir conflict is the oldest one before the UN. In my book `War at the Top of the World’ I warned that the confrontation over Kashmir, the beautiful mountain state claimed by both Islamabad and Delhi, could unleash a nuclear war that could kill millions and pollute the planet. After three wars and many clashes, it seemed the two bad neighbors had...

read more
So Much for Free Speech Under Trump

So Much for Free Speech Under Trump

by | May 3, 2025 |

After riding a wave of criticism of Democrats for suppressing freedom of speech, President Trump has just put the quietus on Amazon, which had the audacity to contemplate including the price of Trump’s tariffs in its shopping carts. Upon hearing of Amazon’s plan, Trump went ballistic, calling Amazon’s plan a “hostile and political act.” According to an article in Aljazeera, Trump telephoned Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to express his displeasure. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt even...

read more
I Wish I Could Stop Reading About The Slaughter In Gaza.

I Wish I Could Stop Reading About The Slaughter In Gaza.

by | May 2, 2025 |

(Photo: journalist Fatima Hassouna, murdered by Israel) As I sat in church last Sunday, before the service started, I thought maybe I read too much. I wish I had not read about Mohammed Hegazy, a seven-year-old Palestinian boy who was blinded by an Israeli grenade that blew up in his face as he played outside his home which is now rubble. His father said he used to smile all the time. “Now we rarely see him smiling. He is having difficulty interacting with people due to his blindness and the...

read more
Britain’s Coalition of the Willing Decides, Upon Reflection, That it’s unwilling to fight in Ukraine

Britain’s Coalition of the Willing Decides, Upon Reflection, That it’s unwilling to fight in Ukraine

by | May 2, 2025 |

The UK mainstream media has puffed up British military might and fortitude since the war in Ukraine began. Now it turns out that Britain would struggle to send 5000 troops to Ukraine in a so called "deterrence force." Policy thinkers in Whitehall desperately need to engage their brains and reach for peace. In a remarkable turn of events, the Times Newspaper of London published an article of 29 April in which it said Europe would struggle to put 25,000 troops on the ground in Ukraine. This from...

read more
Home Invasions on the Rise: Constitution-Free Policing in Trump’s America

Home Invasions on the Rise: Constitution-Free Policing in Trump’s America

by | May 2, 2025 |

“One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle.”—James Otis, Revolutionary War activist, on the Writs of Assistance, 1761 What the Founders rebelled against—armed government agents invading homes without cause—we are now being told to accept in the so-called name of law and order. Imagine it: it’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is asleep. Suddenly, your front door is splintered by battering rams. Shadowy figures...

read more
End The Ukraine War With This One Simple Trick

End The Ukraine War With This One Simple Trick

by | May 1, 2025 |

This was adapted from an RPI subscriber update. Subscribe here for free and see it first. The long-debated "minerals deal" was finally signed between the US and Ukraine late Wednesday, after a months-long, whiplash-producing back and forth between the two parties. In the end, Wednesday started with an affirmation that the deal would be signed, then by mid-day we were told that the Ukraine government aircraft turned around mid-flight and the deal was off, and then later in the afternoon the...

read more
US is Flummoxed by Yemen

US is Flummoxed by Yemen

by | May 1, 2025 |

I almost don’t know what to say about Pete Hegseth’s social media post (see above). It is juvenile, counterproductive and dangerous. During my time living in Central America, I learned a very important piece of wisdom… i.e., The fish dies by its mouth. We need a comparable expression for social media posts like this one. Hegseth, like some angry teenager, is upset that Trump’s version of Operation Prosperity Guardian is a bust. Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG), which was...

read more
Arresting a Judge

Arresting a Judge

by | May 1, 2025 |

Last week the FBI arrested a Wisconsin state judge as she was walking into the courthouse where she works. The feds had alerted the media -- but not the judge -- to this event, and they arrived and recorded the arrest. The standard and preferred practice when arresting a nonviolent person who is a public official with deep roots in the community is to invite the person to surrender with counsel. Instead, without notice, this judge was stopped on a public street, handcuffed behind her back -- a...

read more
The House of Representatives Won’t Stop Approving Government Expansions

The House of Representatives Won’t Stop Approving Government Expansions

by | Apr 30, 2025 |

The Republican-majority United States House of Representatives demonstrated this week, through votes on several relatively modest bills, that it will just keep demanding more US government spending and control. Republican representatives often claim to support limited government and frugality, but mostly they, and their Democratic Party colleagues, keep acting as government-loving spendthrifts. In May of last year, I wrote about the House Republican leadership putting on the House floor for...

read more
IMF and World Bank: Crony Covid Crackdown Enablers

IMF and World Bank: Crony Covid Crackdown Enablers

by | Apr 30, 2025 |

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained last week that the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are suffering from “mission creep.” But Bessent announced that Trump will be “doubling down” on supporting the largest foreign aid gushers on earth. “Far from stepping back, ‘America First’ seeks to expand U.S. leadership in international institutions like the I.M.F. and World Bank,” Bessent declared.  Bessent complained that the IMF “devotes disproportionate time and resources to work...

read more

Peace & Prosperity Blog

Bring Back Constitutional Money

Bring Back Constitutional Money

by | May 17, 2024

The United States Constitution specifies that gold and silver are money. “No State shall … make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts,” declares the...

read more
The Libertarian Nonparty

The Libertarian Nonparty

by | May 15, 2024

Check out the United States Libertarian Party’s website for its national convention later this month at which a major focus will be the choosing of the party’s presidential...

read more
See Texas in Your Kei Truck

See Texas in Your Kei Truck

by | Apr 16, 2024

In the 1950s Dinah Shore sang her encouragement to “see the USA in your Chevrolet.” Decades later, some Americans would like to take that road trip in their kei trucks imported...

read more

Donate to The Ron Paul Institute Today!

Support our upcoming set rebuild. We plan to improve our reach by amplifying the message.

Donate Today