Blinken's Mission, Impossible
Plus: Biden's terrible, no good, very bad poll numbers...
Plus: President Joe Biden’s weird economy and Rep. Mike Johnson as the unlikely new speaker of the House of Representatives.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about mandatory maternity leave.
Plus: The search for a new speaker of the House continues to be a ludicrous mess.
RFK Jr.'s anti-war supporters are welcome to defect, the Libertarian Party said in a statement.
Plus: Chaos in Congress, and bums in the parks
Revoking the 1991 and 2002 authorizations for the use of military force would be a good start, but the 2001 authorization has been used dozens of times to justify conflicts in numerous countries.
Are we stumbling into disaster? Again?
There’s no vital U.S. interest served by this indefinite advise-and-assist mission in the region.
What was a local conflict is shaping up as a battle between alliances.
After one year, whatever morale boost Biden’s visit provided won’t necessarily have concrete, strategic effects in Ukraine.
Lawmakers are once again trying to reclaim their war powers through AUMF repeal.
His State of the Union address sketched a foreign policy that is reckless on some points, relatively restrained on others, and utterly uninterested in any real resolution to America’s lingering military entanglements.
It was a blunder. Worse than that, it was a crime.
But a few remnants of post-9/11 foreign and domestic policy still need to be thrown out.
Our drones still patrol the skies, and our tax dollars will be paying off the costs of failed nation-building for decades.
Plus: Backpage on trial, Texas abortion providers ask SCOTUS to stop ban, vegan "butter" and "cheese" are safe, and more…
The hubristic idea that America could successfully nation-build in Afghanistan was a bipartisan delusion for nearly two decades.
Do you care about free minds and free markets? Sign up to get the biggest stories from Reason in your inbox every afternoon.
This modal will close in 10