They Said They Didn't Want War With Iran. Now They're Cheering on War With Iran.
Many of the Washington hawks calling for war with Iran had sworn up and down that more pressure was not a path to war.
Many of the Washington hawks calling for war with Iran had sworn up and down that more pressure was not a path to war.
I coauthored it with Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy.
Trump's offhand insult of the late John Dingell is part of how he reshapes the GOP into his own image, to the applause of supporters fed up with Washington's exaggerated self-regard
Why did a leading businessman go from calling Donald Trump "a national disgrace" to saying he's doing a good job?
It's too early to make predictions based on public opinion surveys.
Confidants of the late senator have either buckled, joined #NeverTrump plotters, or bolted.
He's a social conservative, but not necessarily an immigration hawk or a Trump loyalist.
Your unfettered expression is only one click away, and the late senator himself engaged in ritual self-criticism, Matt Welch argues on Bloggingheads.
What the reaction to John McCain's death tells us about the values of Washington's political class
Even the most revered politicians are just human-and no human can resist The Robot.
The senator was wrong about plenty, but not about the immorality of inflicting cruelty on prostrate detainees.
The late Arizona senator's relentless energy and patriotic sense of honor led him to heroic acts of defiance, but also misguided support for disastrous foreign interventions.
The Senate asks the Pentagon's F-35 program to explain its sizable discrepancy in savings estimates.
McCain biographer Matt Welch talks about the Arizona Republican's latest book and personal crusades.
One reason the national political press has almost always liked the Arizona maverick? He shares their disdain for the conservative media bubble.
The Arizona senator goes out shooting against the Paul family, even as he and the Kentucky senator make common cause on Gina Haspel.
As the Senate prepares to vote on Gina Haspel's nomination, senators call for more transparency on torture and her role in it.
"I have to accept my share of the blame for it," the ailing senator writes in a new book, even while defending several other interventions and surges.
In the Arizona senator's waning days, it's an open question whether his familiar vision of a robustly interventionist America idealistically leading the international trading order will survive in Donald Trump's GOP.
Now that it's out, nobody's minds seem to have changed.
McCain and Jeff Flake are right to slam the president's juvenile rhetoric, but questionably blame Trump for global trends while neglecting the press crackdowns of his predecessor.
Rand Paul squares off against John McCain yet again on military spending, in a fight that could derail both the budget and tax reform.
The ailing senator is right that "half-baked, spurious nationalism" is wrong. But so is his brand of hawkish intervention.
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Eric Boehm, and Andrew Heaton discuss the president's NFL feud, Graham-Cassidy, and tax reform.
A looming Senate deadline might push holdout Republican senators over the line.
Kentucky senator talks about his vote on intervention-authorizations, says John McCain "has never met a war he wasn't interested in getting the U.S. involved in," and worries about "these generals whispering in" Trump's "ears every day."
Trump's rescinding of DACA has produced widespread condemnation and a demand that Congress act to reform immigration.
Behold a squabbling but still powerful coalition of nationalist authoritarians, immovable interventionists, finger-in-the-wind opportunists, and vastly outnumbered libertarian-leaners.
As people rightly freak out over a president invoking nuclear war, a trip through recent history shows widespread support for pre-emptive bombing.
Reason editors discuss the president's management casualties, free speech on Twitter, blowing up Mt. Rushmore, and more.
Listen to Sirius XM Insight channel 121 for discussion on civil asset forfeiture, Steve Bannon, John McCain, Dunkirk, and New York's grotesque subway
Watch Michael Moynihan get his junk checked, and listen to Kmele Foster wax poetical about his family's immigration.
The cancer-stricken senator's eternal pursuit of honor and integrity are a welcome tonic in a tawdry age, even while his policy misjudgments helped pave the way for the new Republican politics he abhors.
A British spy. An Arizona senator. And one inflammatory dossier on Donald Trump. The connection between them is starting to unravel...
Kurt Volker, the McCain Institute's well-connected executive director, has been appointed special representative for Ukraine negotiations.
Examining McCain's philanthropic past reveals a long history of personal abuse of nonprofit resources, shady connections, and shoddy work.
From pill theft to cozying up to authoritarians, Trump's pick for U.S. ambassador on human rights has a long history of abusing the system.
In comparing Trump and Clinton, the senator apparently meant to highlight the distinction between impropriety and criminality.
Apparently, opposing Montenegro's inclusion in NATO is the new treason.
But what can the U.S. accomplish in its 16th year in Afghanistan that it couldn't accomplish in the first 15?
No, not at all. But for military hawks, more isn't just always better, it's the only way to be patriotic.
How can Kutcher's group have helped in dramatically more sex-trafficking investigations than were actually opened across America?
The media's favorite maverick makes his priorities clear: America must stay militarily extended, forever
'Shut up,' the president explained.
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