Venezuelan nationals interviewed by Reason say they don’t feel safe returning to the country while Maduro’s regime is still in power. “It’s like taking the hood off, but the engine is still running.”
It is a “gesture” to keep the peace, according to Jorge Rodríguez, president of Venezuela’s National Assembly.
When we use our military and roll the dice with the fate of nations, the consequences play out in a much longer time frame than social media trends.
Polar War demonstrates how difficult it is for armies to operate in the high north—and just how far America is behind Europe in Arctic warfare.
If an indictment is enough to justify military action, why bother seeking congressional approval?
Presidents should try to nudge the world toward more trade and less war whenever possible. Trump is doing the opposite.
Trump chose to work with a sanctioned regime insider rather than the country's elected opposition.
Plus: The difficulties of rebuilding trust in public health, Maduro's arraignment, U.S. threats against Greenland, and more...
Plus: Trump’s expanding view of U.S. power abroad, Zohran Mamdani touts the “warmth of collectivism,” and Tim Walz won’t seek reelection
His explanation for why the Trump administration attacked Venezuela without congressional authorization does not stand up to scrutiny.
Plus: the illegality of the Maduro raid, the wide open question of what happens next, and more
Nicolás Maduro’s removal should be welcomed by anyone who values liberty. Yet data show Americans—led by the youngest adults—are turning noninterventionist.
Maduro is a brutal dictator who is getting what he deserves. But Trump's actions are still illegal, because lacking proper congressional authorization. Whether they result in a beneficial regime change in Venezuela remains to be seen.
When asked who would be in charge, Trump said: “We’re designating those people.”
The strikes against Venezuela and the capture of Nicolás Maduro might be popular or defensible. They were not legal.
Uniformed and armed men and women can be seen all over the city wielding leaf blowers, hoses, and brooms as they do municipal chores.
Even as the president blows up drug boats, the government routinely declines to pursue charges against smugglers nabbed by the Coast Guard.
Plus: the limits of Zohran Mamdani's ability to ruin New York, Trump's National Guard withdrawal, and a deadly New Year's blaze in Switzerland
The president asserted broad powers to deport people, impose tariffs, and deploy the National Guard based on his own unilateral determinations.
Presidents, legislators, and police officers were desperate to blame anyone but themselves.
I spent two weeks teaching and lecturing in Israel. Here are some tentative impressions.
The U.S. military is fighting or preparing to fight in more countries than it was when the self-proclaimed "peace president" took office.
The decision is a preliminary "shadow docket" ruling. But it strongly suggests the majority believes Trump's use of the Guard is illegal.
The justices suggested the president is misinterpreting "the regular forces," a key phrase in the statute on which he is relying.
"Once a president establishes for himself that he has a shiny toy, good luck getting that toy ever wrested away from whoever the president is," the CNN anchor tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
The self-made tycoon was convicted this week of violating Hong Kong's "national security" law. But he could have escaped it.
The executive order does not accomplish much in practical terms, but it jibes with the president's conflation of drug trafficking with violent aggression.
A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota is the Trump administration's latest excuse for demonizing immigrants and refugees.
These metrics are bad proxies for prosperity, but they reveal just how flawed the president's arguments have been.
U.S. immigration authorities should not do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party.
The defense secretary claims the video, which shows a second strike that killed two floundering survivors, would compromise "sources and methods."
Reason's Robby Soave and Elizabeth Nolan Brown go head to head with Emily Jashinsky and Ryan Grim from Breaking Points in a thought-provoking debate about Big Tech.
Not even 35 years after escaping Soviet-style central planning, Poland has become a capitalist success story.
Plus: reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III drug, mass shootings at Bondi Beach and Brown University, and the U.S. seizes a Venezuelan oil tanker
The weekend’s ISIS attack came as the Trump administration is trying to expand the U.S. presence in Syria.
The country's transition leader was selected not at the ballot box but on a 100,000-person Discord chat.
The version of the NDAA passed by the House is larger than the administration’s budget request.
Plus: Cocaine and mustard gas, U.S. seizes oil tanker, billionaires in the White House, and more...
Why make the government a middleman in the chip war?
Calling suspected cocaine smugglers "combatants" does not justify summarily executing them.
So far, by the president's reckoning, he has prevented 650,000 U.S. drug deaths—eight times the number recorded last year.
Plus: Are college football bowl games dead, and can the playoff be fixed?
Plus: Trump’s economy shows new signs of strain, Congress pushes a $900 billion defense package, and Kalshi stirs backlash over “financializing everything”
The footage shows what happened to the survivors of the September 2 attack that inaugurated the president's deadly campaign against suspected drug boats.
Plus: Hep B vaccines, national parks nonsense, Trump involvement in Netflix deal, and more...
A former leader of Al Qaeda has convinced Washington that he’s a liberal reformer. Now comes the hard part of following through.
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