Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries.
Editor’s note: This article by John Whitehead is a perfect follow up to my article yesterday about Trump bringing in billions to the family business; he has truly become an expert in the art of the steal and the privatization…
Nearly 30 years after the first complaints were filed, the Epstein files remain a masterclass in how the ruling class shields its own. This is no longer just about one man’s crimes—it is about the machinery of silence that keeps…
NOTE: This was originally posted over six months ago, but in light of recent developments concerning the Epstein files and Trump’s obvious attempt to protect the sexual predators hiding within America’s power elite, I thought it would be a good…
In 2021, amid a global pandemic, warnings that the federal government might repurpose warehouses into detention facilities on American soil were dismissed as speculative, alarmist, even conspiratorial. Five years later, what was speculation is a blueprint for locking up whomever the…
In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ruler who believed power flowed from his own will rather than the consent of the governed. Paine’s…
Some years chip away at freedom. Others tear the mask off. 2025 was the year the government stopped pretending it was constrained by the Constitution—when executive power expanded openly and unapologetically, surveillance became ambient, dissent became dangerous, and the machinery of…
We are living in a nation where government is unchained. The Constitution has lost its guardrails, and our God-given rights exist in theory, not in practice. What good are rights on paper when every branch of government is allowed to ignore,…