Politics

How Governments Use Terror To Expand Their Own Authority

Bait and Switch

Terrorists will always attempt to exploit the civil liberties of a free society. Surrendering those liberties in exchange for empty promises of security is a sucker’s bet.

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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May was not about to let a good tragedy go to waste. After three ISIS-inspired extremists wreaked havoc on London Bridge days ahead of the

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