Let the Afghan People Come
Joe Biden doesn’t have to feel bad about bringing the troops home if he lets the persecuted come here.
Joe Biden doesn’t have to feel bad about bringing the troops home if he lets the persecuted come here.
Many U.S. complaints about China aren’t about actions that threaten U.S. security.
The strike was probably legal (as were similar small-scale strikes by Trump). But there are serious constitutional problems with the overall US military presence in Syria.
Anne-Marie Slaughter hasn’t given up on intervention and the “responsibility to protect” doctrine.
What should come next for the U.S.-Saudi Arabia relationship
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Auditors now say the military may be able to pass an audit before the end of the next decade, so at least that's something.
If we can't trim the Pentagon's budget this year, will we ever?
Giving one man control of all nuclear weapons is a mistake.
Selling weapons to the UAE would stamp brutality and extremism abroad with American approval.
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Much of the military spending in the GOP's HEALS Act replaces funding that was redirected to pay for Trump's border wall.
"Absent policy changes, the federal government continues to face an unsustainable long-term fiscal path," America's top auditor warns. But is anyone listening?
Donald Trump, Democrats, and Republicans agree on trillion-dollar deficits for as far as the eye can see.
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Neither party is serious about reining in spending. This is unsustainable.
Despite the failure, Pentagon officials are spinning the audit as a step in the right direction.
He's wrong on both counts.
An ever-growing military budget is yet another illustration of the GOP's abandonment of small-government principles. And Democrats aren't any better.
True to form, the presidential hopeful is turning the conversation around war on its head.
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An amendment to this year's military spending bill says the president must go to Congress before launching another war.
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They were hoping to hit the Department of Defense jackpot.
The depressing bipartisan consensus on ever-increasing defense spending shows no sign of breaking down anytime soon.
State-level licensing laws can make it nearly impossible for workers to move from place to place, and that's a particular problem for military spouses. This bipartisan proposal could be a step towards fixing it.
No one wants to consider if casually blowing things up is a good idea in the first place.
Should the Senate majority leader really be celebrating more reckless spending?
If the Space Force goes down before it ever got up on its feet, that's probably for the best.
Reloaders and DIY gunmakers alike are motivated by innovation and a willingness to make for themselves what the government doesn't want them to have.
Is another bureaucracy really going to solve the problem?
"It was not very hard" to get the spending bill through Congress, Trump said. And he's definitely right about that.
The firebrand Michigan congressman unloads on the GOP leadership's unwillingness to shrink government's size, scope, and spending.
Republicans prove yet again why they deserve to be labeled the biggest swamp spenders.
The way to achieve peace is not to prepare for war but to reject militarism and empire, and embrace nonintervention.
Because national defense is our government's top priority, Pentagon spending demands close scrutiny
Both parties agree on more spending and bigger deficits.
Meanwhile, Trump and congressional Republicans want to remove spending caps for the Defense Department.
Many Americans, including our nation's leaders, don't know where or why our military is deployed.
The president's proclamations about Afghanistan are not a plan; they're a letter to Santa Claus.
But he's diminished the strength of that demand since taking office.
Libertarian-leaning congressman unpacks the great Ryancare 'bluff,' explains how Paul Ryan is 'more Machiavellian than even John Boehner,' and why he's 'still hopeful' about Donald Trump despite a military budget proposal that's 'the dream of the neocons'
White House denies the report but Trump's position that Germany "owes" the U.S. and the proposed massive increase in military spending don't bode well either.
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