Cancel Culture Monkeys and Military Industrial Menaces: James Gunn's Superman Is a Silly Delight
Superman is not "Superwoke."
Superman is not "Superwoke."
It spends $34 billion to subsidize shipbuilding, supply chains, and drone technology.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is considering whether the president properly invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members.
The deployment of National Guard soldiers on a DEA drug raid is a serious test of whether the Posse Comitatus Act means something or not.
War with Iran was a risky, destructive gamble. But the worst outcome has been avoided, for now.
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Trump now has a choice between exiting from a position of strength—or jumping further into an endless war.
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Trump's attack on Iran plainly violates the War Powers Act. Limits on executive power are most important when they are inconvenient.
The ruling gets several important issues right - and one big one wrong.
Although the appeals court said the president probably complied with the law he invoked to justify his California deployment, it emphasized that such decisions are subject to judicial review.
Sayed Naser worked with U.S. forces in Afghanistan, fled after the Taliban killed his brother, and was awaiting asylum. ICE agents still took him in handcuffs—and the government won’t explain why.
House Republicans' budget would spend billions of dollars on the F-35's successor before the current model is even up to par.
The government's lawyer told a 9th Circuit panel the president's deployments are "unreviewable," so he need not even pretend to comply with the statute on which he is relying.
On its face, the law gives the president sweeping authority to deploy the military in response to domestic disorder.
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America’s founders were deeply suspicious of a standing army.
Most Americans, it turns out, do not think it is a good use of taxpayer money, according to a recent poll.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer concluded that the president failed to comply with the statute he cited—and violated the 10th Amendment too.
The Trump administration, which was ready to negotiate on Sunday, is now gambling on an all-out war.
Americans shouldn’t have to read the tea leaves to know about life-and-death decisions made by their government.
Plus: When Stalin Meets Star Wars.
The Supreme Court ruled decades ago that burning the flag is protected by the First Amendment, no matter how offensive that act may be.
In a federal lawsuit, California's governor argues that the president's assertion of control over "the State's militia" is illegal and unconstitutional.
Trump and the right are living out their fantasies of rewriting the awful summer of 2020.
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Trump's domestic use of the military to counter anti-deportation protests in LA is so far very limited. But that could change. A big part of the root of the problem is the lawless behavior of federal immigation-enforcement agencies.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine has a clear path to victory. The Ukrainian drone attack last week and the Russian air raids on Friday don't change that.
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Military families have long chosen homeschooling at twice the rate of the general population.
When anyone can have an air force, superpowers aren't as powerful as they used to be.
Giving the Defense Department even more taxpayer money is a recipe for waste, not security.
To protect America, maybe what we really need to fund is more Tom Cruise.
"We did a lot of field studies and got nothing to show for it," said one U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory researcher.
We don't need more of the same. We need evidence of a serious turnaround.
The president wants to develop the F-47 fighter jet 60 years before the F-35 is scheduled to retire.
Washington is dumping valuable resources—literally—into a Middle Eastern war of choice.
Using the military to wage the drug war in Mexico raises practical and constitutional issues.
For an administration that likes to show off successful assassinations, the Trump team has been surprisingly tight-lipped about the Houthi commanders they targeted.
Canada long relied on the U.S. for protection. Now it needs to rediscover self-reliance.
The defense secretary, who shared information about imminent U.S. air strikes in a manifestly insecure group chat, thought Clinton should be prosecuted for her careless handling of sensitive information.
With the controversy over the leaked White House group chat, mainstream media have been treating secrecy as a virtue and disclosure as a vice. That’s a dangerous game.
The U.S., in turn, should cancel the F-35 program altogether.
The U.S. is back to bombing the Houthi movement.
Syrian Kurdish rebels and the new Syrian government have agreed to reunite peacefully. The U.S. military may have helped broker the agreement.
Since Congress began requiring annual audits in 2018, the Department of Defense has never passed.
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