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.
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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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If Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is serious about reducing military spending, he will need to embrace a narrower understanding of national security.
How the U.S. military busts its budget on wasteful, careless, and unnecessary "self-licking ice cream cones."
Trump wants to negotiate instead of bombing Iran. Jilted war hawks are blaming his advisers.
But at least he restored respect for a tariff-loving predecessor by renaming a mountain.
I can't stand big government, but I think we need something. Michael Malice says I'm wrong.
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How the U.S. military busts its budget on wasteful, careless, and unnecessary 'self-licking ice cream cones.'
The last president to serve two non-consecutive terms stood against imperialism. Donald Trump could learn from his example.
The U.S. already has a base in one of the territories Trump covets. Here’s how the Americans stationed there are told to deal with the people who are actually from there.
Matthew Livelsberger’s alleged manifesto highlights an infamous U.S. drug raid.
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