Get your tickets to RPI's "Blueprint for Peace" Conference on August 16, Washington, DC.

Hilton Washington Dulles Airport
Saturday, August 16 · 9:30am – 3:30pm EDT

Order Tickets

Apply For The 2025 Ron Paul Scholars Seminar!

Featured Articles

Imperial Hubris (and its Consequences) in Syria

Imperial Hubris (and its Consequences) in Syria

by | Jan 2, 2025 |

The Syria story, it seems, is not so simple as “President Assad fell” and the “technocratic Salafists“ rose to power. At one level, the collapse was predictable. Assad was known to have been influenced by Egypt and UAE for some years past. They had been urging him to break with Iran and Russia, and to shift to the West. For some 3-4 years he had been incrementally signalling and implementing such a move. Iran especially faced increasing obstacles over operational matters in which they were...

read more
President Jimmy Carter

President Jimmy Carter

by | Jan 2, 2025 |

President Jimmy Carter departed this world with 2024.  He was a good man outfoxed by Washington. A populist, he was not the establishment’s choice for president which set about weakening him by framing his Director of the Office of Management and Budget and then turning on his chief of staff.  President Carter intended to continue President Nixon’s policy of defusing tensions with the Soviet Union.  He and Soviet leader Brezhnev agreed to limit the buildup of nuclear...

read more
Bogus Bird Flu

Bogus Bird Flu

by | Jan 1, 2025 |

I just had a reach out from a guy planning to put pastured poultry on his family farm that currently raises cows and pigs but "mom" is concerned the chickens will invite bird flu which will then infect the pigs and cows. Here's a young wanna-be farmer stymied by parental paranoia regarding bird flu. Everyone needs to realize that the test being used to discover bird flu in milk tanks, dairy herds and elsewhere is the scientifically perfect credible authentic PCR test. Yes, the infamous PCR...

read more
A New Year’s Resolution: Let’s Get the United States Out of the Censorship Business

A New Year’s Resolution: Let’s Get the United States Out of the Censorship Business

by | Dec 31, 2024 |

On this New Year’s Eve, billions of people will gather with friends to ring in 2025 with the hope of a better year to come.  For the first time in many years, free-speech advocates have a reason to celebrate. With 2024, we will say goodbye to one of the most reviled offices in the Biden Administration: The Global Engagement Center. I discuss the Center in my recent book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage as one of the most active components in the massive...

read more
2025 New Year’s Resolutions for DC, Pt. One

2025 New Year’s Resolutions for DC, Pt. One

by | Dec 30, 2024 |

When the end of another year rolls around it is not a bad idea to think about how we might improve ourselves and perhaps even improve the lives of others given the clean slate of a New Year. Many people resolve to exercise more, eat better, spend more time with their families. These are all worthy goals, but shouldn’t our elected officials and the bureaucrats who run DC be making some resolutions of their own? Here are a few suggestions. First up is Congress. Next month the 119th US Congress...

read more
Ukraine Did It the American Way and is Paying a Terrible Price

Ukraine Did It the American Way and is Paying a Terrible Price

by | Dec 30, 2024 |

Drawing on Dr. Kubler-Ross’ five stages of grief, the West is slowly coming to grips with the reality that Ukraine is a lost cause and moving through the five-stage grief cycle. Until recently, US pundits and policymakers were firmly planted in the first-stage: denial. But an article in Friday’s New York Times — Ukraine Slows Firing of Missiles Into Russia as Trump Prepares to Take Office — signals that the US is doing the anger phase and headed...

read more
Our Lying Eyes: New Photo Shows Biden with Hunter’s Business Associates Despite Past Denials

Our Lying Eyes: New Photo Shows Biden with Hunter’s Business Associates Despite Past Denials

by | Dec 28, 2024 |

“Lies.” That response was a mantra for President Joe Biden, who denied ever meeting or knowing about his son’s foreign dealings. Despite the pronounced lack of interest by most media outlets in the alleged multimillion dollar influence-peddling scheme, the House and conservative groups have doggedly pursued the matter and found overwhelming evidence that the President has repeatedly lied about his interactions with foreign clients. Now, a new photo further contradicts the President, who...

read more
In America It’s Another Week to be Proud of!

In America It’s Another Week to be Proud of!

by | Dec 27, 2024 |

Something good happened in Washington last week, suggesting that the year might actually end on a high note without Joe Biden starting World War 3 and opening up all the country’s prisons for the on-the-street rehabilitation of the inmates where they will undoubtedly learn new skills. The good thing was the signing by Biden of a bill, perhaps with a little bit of help from his friends to make sure he spelled his name correctly, to make the Bald Eagle the official bird of the United...

read more
Taking Christmas Seriously

Taking Christmas Seriously

by | Dec 27, 2024 |

We all know that God works in mysterious ways. Last weekend, two friends and I were deeply moved when we saw a theatrical production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” This is the famous and popular tale of the transformation and redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge from a rasping, grasping old miser into a lovable, generous old man who, late in life, becomes determined to make amends for all his extreme selfishness and his public denunciations of charity. After tossing and turning in bed on...

read more
The ‘King-Makers’ Pull the Rug from Syria, Yet Again… A ‘Greek tragedy’ Begins

The ‘King-Makers’ Pull the Rug from Syria, Yet Again… A ‘Greek tragedy’ Begins

by | Dec 27, 2024 |

James Jeffrey, former US Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey, in a March 2021 interview with PBS Frontline, laid out very plainly the template for what has just happened in Syria this month: “Syria, given its size, its strategic location, its historical importance, is the pivot point for whether [there can be] an American-managed security system in the region … And so you’ve got this general alliance that is locked in with us. But … the stress point is greatest in Syria.” Jeffrey explained (in the...

read more
Syrian Christians Protest Presence Of Foreign Jihadists After Christmas Display Burned

Syrian Christians Protest Presence Of Foreign Jihadists After Christmas Display Burned

by | Dec 25, 2024 |

Starting Monday night and into Tuesday, large demonstrations broke out in Christian areas of Damascus and other parts of Syria over the continued presence of foreign jihadists in the country. The ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has vowed to protect the sizeable non-Muslim communities of Syria (Christians, Alawites, and Druze) following the overthrow of the secular-leaning President Assad and his Baath government, but deep fears have remained that an Islamic state based on Sharia...

read more
2025 New Year’s Resolutions for DC, Pt. One

End Congress’s Christmas Tradition

by | Dec 23, 2024 |

This week saw a new twist in what has become a D.C. Christmas tradition. I am not referring to the lighting of the White House Christmas tree but to passage of a “continuing resolution” (CR) funding the government and thus avoiding a Christmastime government shutdown. It took the production of three separate CRs before one passed in the Senate after midnight Friday night and was then signed by President Joe Biden. A reason an earlier CR failed to obtain congressional approval was that...

read more
Putin weighs in on the Syrian situation

Putin weighs in on the Syrian situation

by | Dec 23, 2024 |

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his Results of the Year annual marathon yearender interactive televised discussion with the Russian public and the media in Moscow on December 19, spoke at some length on the recent developments in Syria.  These were Putin’s first public remarks on the topic and, coming 12 days after armed opposition forces seized Damascus and the exile of former president Bashar al-Assad and his family in Moscow, they signified that the Kremlin is...

read more
Righty Tighty: A Simple Way Donald Trump Can End the Ukraine and Israel Wars

Righty Tighty: A Simple Way Donald Trump Can End the Ukraine and Israel Wars

by | Dec 22, 2024 |

Upon his inauguration as president, Donald Trump will become the leader of a United States executive branch mired in two major wars via its continuing pumping of money, weapons, and intelligence into support of the Ukraine and Israel governments. Trump has declared his opposition to the continuation of these wars. But, how can he end them? The means by which Trump can end the wars is simpler than many Americans think. This means just does not come to mind for many Americans because it is far...

read more
Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision

Eminently Overdue: The Supreme Court Considers New York Case That Could Overturn the Infamous Kelo Decision

by | Dec 20, 2024 |

As an academic and a legal commentator, I have sometimes disagreed with the United States Supreme Court, but I often stress the good-faith differences in how certain rights or protections are interpreted. One case, however, has long stood out for me as wildly off-base and wrongly decided: Kelo v. New London. The case allowed the government to seize property from one private party and then give it to another private party. There is now a petition before the Supreme Court that would allow...

read more
Is Seeking to Stop a War a Crime?

Is Seeking to Stop a War a Crime?

by | Dec 20, 2024 |

The early November detention of Asif Rahman, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, indicted in a federal national security court in the Eastern District of Virginia on two counts of “willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act,” was largely downplayed in the national media. He was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Tuesday November 5th at the US Embassy in Phnom Penh in Cambodia where he was...

read more

Peace & Prosperity Blog

Donate to The Ron Paul Institute Today!

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

Donate Today