A New Golden Age of HUD Hokum by James Bovard The Trump administration effectively condemned the downtown Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), portraying it as unfit for federal workers. HUD Secretary Scott Turner announced: “It is time to turn the page on the Weaver Building and relocate to […]
Trump’s ‘affordability’ bombast won’t solve his very real economic problems by James Bovard Is the affordability issue making President Trump schizophrenic? “I don’t want to hear about the affordability!” Trump declared in a Fox News interview last month after falsely claiming the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner would be 25% cheaper than in 2024. After […]
** Bosnian language version of this article at this link December 5, 2025, COUNTERPUNCH Obama’s PowerPoint Death Parade Led to Trump’s Venezuelan Killings James Bovard Photograph Source: Debra Sweet – CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are provoking outrage across the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently […]
Obama Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuelan Killings James Bovard, December 3 2025 LIBERTARIAN INSTITUTE The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are justifiably provoking outrage. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth recently proclaimed, “We have only just begun to kill narco-terrorists.” Donald Trump and Hegseth are cashing a blank check for carnage that […]
DOGE is dead — long live Washington boondoggles! By James Bovard, November 30, 2025 New York Post DOGE is dead. Just over a year ago, President-elect Donald Trump announced he was launching the Department of Government Efficiency to produce “a smaller Government, with more efficiency and less bureaucracy,” the “perfect gift to America on the 250th Anniversary of […]
An Antidote to the FDR Cult A new biography presents Franklin Roosevelt as one of the greatest scoundrels of American political history. James Bovard | 11.25.2025 8:00 AM Reason.com Share on FacebookShare on XShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL Add Reason to Google (Open Universe) FDR: A New Political Life, by David […]
Property Rights Ping Pong Pandemonium by Jim Bovard | Nov 19, 2025 Remind me again why any reasonable person expects the federal government to obey the law. The Trump administration this week gravely imperiled the nation’s water supply by curtailing federal regulations over dry land. Or at least that’s the story the media is hustling. […]
Geoffrey Britain
"On April 5, 1933, Roosevelt commanded all ci
Jim
Ms. Podojil, thanks very much for your kind words
catherine podojil
Mr. Bovard,
Thank you for laying it all out so
Jim
thanks very much!
Rich Weyhe
Incredibly well written and informative.
