Rawdogging the Conclave

Rawdogging the Conclave Plus: Trade deal, Columbia arrests, and more… LIZ WOLFE Mainstream media is not sure how to report on the Papal conclave: How can I tell? Because CBS said, on the air, that the cardinals choosing the next Pope are “rawdogging” the conclave—as in, they are barred from using […]

‘A new arms race’

Week XIX, MMXXV Recently in The Signal: Why are people in the United States eating record amounts of meat? Glynn Tonsor on a mysterious outlier trend in the Western world. Today: “The argument in favor of these systems is ultimately about speed: Combat now often happens so fast […]

Romania’s Revolt Against Liberal Globalism

Orthodoxy and sovereignty strike back. Alexander Dugin May 07, 2025 Alexander Dugin sees George Simion’s first-round win in Romania’s presidential election as another spark in Europe’s conservative surge and a sign of the nation’s Orthodox revival. The victory of the sovereigntist candidate George Simion in the first round […]

An American Pope

NATIONAL REVIEW MAY 09, 2025 ◼ The Catholic Church has come full circle, from a pope born under Caesar Augustus to one born under Mayor Daley.   ◼ The 267th pope of the Catholic Church is a Chicago-born Augustinian, though he is, practically speaking, an adopted son of […]

Bernie Sanders: American Success Story

Bernie Sanders: American Success Story Plus: Habemus papam, deporting grannies, and more… LIZ WOLFE Fighting oligarchy from the P.J.: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) and I actually have a lot in common: We both think private jets are super cool. The only problem is that he’s trying to brand himself […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/8/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Saga, Temtum, CDbio, Cryptostone, Stacks and more…Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 8th, 2025   An Emerging AI Breakthrough That’s […]

Broken Windows and the Broken Logic of Trade Wars

May 7, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, Over the last several days, there have been two especially noteworthy international elections. Friedrich Merz, of Germany’s conservative party, was voted Chancellor […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/7/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Saga, Electroneum, Vertex Protocol, Cryptostone, Convex Finance, Sui and more…Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get early delivery, personalized stock alerts, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 7th, 2025   Market Panic: Trump Just Dropped a […]

Israel Really Is As Evil As It Looks

Caitlin Johnstone May 07, 2025 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot children in the head throughout the Gaza Strip. Israel created an AI system for the IDF to target suspected Hamas fighters when they go home to their […]

India vs. Pakistan (and China)

India vs. Pakistan (and China) Plus: Conclave time, land acknowledgements, deporting to Libya, and more… LIZ WOLFE India strikes Pakistan: Last month, there was a terrorist attack in India-controlled Kashmir that killed 26 tourists. Yesterday, India conducted several airstrikes on Pakistan, saying the strikes were retribution for the attack. The strikes […]

It Could Never Happen Here

TUESDAY, MAY 6, 2025 There is little satisfaction from doing good if individuals are mandated to do the right thing. Character and responsibility are built when people voluntarily choose right over wrong, not when they are forced to do so. – Mark Skousen, Liberty Magazine [September 1991] HORNBERGER’S BLOG May […]

The Woo-Woo Authoritarians

In Donald Trump’s administration, writes Hari Kunzru in the Review’s May 29 issue, “conspiracy—which usually presents the government as a distant object of obsession or fantasy—has become governmental logic.” This can be seen not only in the elevation of the noted vaccine skeptic and natural supplement advocate Robert […]

American carnivores

Week XIX, MMXXV Brought to you by Congo Clothing Company Recently in The Signal: Why are people’s cognitive skills declining? Gloria Mark on how consumer technology is making us more error-prone, more stressed, and less productive. Today: “U.S. society is less trusting of experts. People follow their own […]

Trump 2.0’s Agenda: Making Israel and the Globalist Technocracy Great Again – Part 1a: Project Stargate, AI Statism, “National Security” smokescreen, and Oligarchic Tech Transfer

Sean Jobst May 06, 2025 By Sean Jobst 5 May 2025 Trump 2.0 was inaugurated upon a wave of discontent around the economy, with the Biden regime’s complicity in the Gaza genocide (now continued into the Trump regime) and the Democrats’ Woke gambit (intended as a distraction from […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 5/6/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Saga, Electroneum, Vertex Protocol, Cryptostone, Convex Finance, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX and more…Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio May 6th, 2025   AI Is Exploding […]

The Dangers of a Political Gender Gap

By Joel Kotkin April 26, 2025/in Demographics, Politics Throughout history, poverty, class and economic self-interest have driven radical political movements. The Bolsheviks harnessed the anger of impoverished workers and peasants to create a movement that controlled the world’s biggest country for seven decades. The Nazis came to power […]

Not All Tariffs Are Created Equal

By Michael Lind, Tablet The Trump administration’s rollout of its tariff strategy on “Liberation Day,” April 2, was a debacle of historic proportions, causing the greatest stock market crash since the COVID-19 pandemic and the threat of an even more frightening flight from the dollar as a safe […]