Gavin is an Associate Editor here at the Libertarian Republic, an editor for YAL's Media Ambassador Program, and is currently writing for The Daily Caller News Foundation. His Op-Eds have been published in the Washington Examiner, Lone Conservative, and the Foundation for Economic Education.
President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Monday that he will appear on major news networks, Tuesday at primetime, to deliver an address concerning the state of the current government shutdown as the crisis enters its third week. As Republicans and Democrats continue to hold “non-essential” government funding hostage over the practical imperative or perceived moral indecency of a
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Protests continued in Paris this weekend for the fifth week in a row, even after President Emmanuel Macron caved to the demands of the “yellow vest” protesters. The turnout at this weekend’s protest numbered at only around 3,000, by police estimation. Last weekend was the pinnacle of the civil unrest. Over 8,000 protestors stormed upscale areas,
READ MORESince Catalonia Declared independence late last month, news coverage of the diplomatic battle has died down but tensions have not. The North-easternmost province of Spain, which contains Barcelona and a fifth of the nation’s GDP, Catalonia has a long, but recently vocal, separatist movement. Since the October 1st referendum and subsequent Declaration of Independence signed
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Northeast Spainhas shocked the world, and particularly Madrid, with sudden and remarkable fervor for independence. The Catalan separatist movement has a long history, beginning roughly in 1922. Independence has only become a feasibility in the last decade or so, however. In 2006 the government of Catalonia announced that its own people would determine the future
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