Recent Airstrikes Are Our Periodic Reminder That We're Fighting a War in Syria
Four years after IS was officially defeated, the U.S. continues to keep hundreds of troops in Syria to fight the vanquished terrorist group.
Four years after IS was officially defeated, the U.S. continues to keep hundreds of troops in Syria to fight the vanquished terrorist group.
It would result in shortages, decreases in productivity, and higher production costs affecting millions of American workers and nearly every consumer.
If Republicans refuse to gore their three sacred cows, a new CBO report shows that balancing the budget is literally impossible.
Are we stumbling into disaster? Again?
Bolton says the Bush administration's biggest error in Iraq was failing to invade Iran too. That's madness.
There’s no vital U.S. interest served by this indefinite advise-and-assist mission in the region.
The charge is the crime of illegal kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian children.
It's an impressive achievement. But we can do much more. Canada's much greater openness to immigration is an indication of what's possible.
There's little reason to believe that any of the tactics Republican politicians are proposing would be effective in keeping fentanyl out of the country.
More immigration from China would both hobble a geopolitical rival and make America richer and better.
What we did for Ukrainians, we could do for other migrants too.
Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
DeSantis' foreign policy seems to be defined by a simple rule: Whatever Democrats do is wrong, but whatever Republicans do is right.
While a conservative skepticism toward military aggression would be welcome, Republican standard-bearers are all too happy to sign off on war powers in other ways.
Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.
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The legislation, which forbids shipping anything between American ports in ships that are not U.S. built and crewed, is just another a special deal that one industry has scammed out of Congress.
It's less bad than Trump-era efforts along the same lines. But saying that is damning with faint praise.
The authors of Superabundance make a strong case that more people and industrialization mean a richer, more prosperous world.
A compilation of my work on this topic, on the one-year anniversary of the start of Vladimir Putin's attempt to conquer Ukraine.
The war is often described as a conflict between authoritarianism and liberal democracy. That reality has some underappreciated implications.
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.
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Giving recent Ukrainian refugees the right to permanent residency in the US will avert potential tragedy for them, and benefit the US economy.
Many Democrats and Republicans were outraged when Trump and Biden respectively were found with classified documents. But both sides are missing the point.
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Global hunger declined for decades before pandemic policies and Russia’s invasion broke the world.
War by Other Means tells the story of those conscientious objectors who did not cooperate with the government's alternative-service schemes.
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Election betting markets are often more reliable than pundits. Did the site steal user funds? No. Did they lie to people? No. Harm anyone? No.
Lawmakers are once again trying to reclaim their war powers through AUMF repeal.
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Denuclearization is not possible at any remotely acceptable price, and that may not change for decades to come.
Legislators will increasingly argue over how to spend a diminishing discretionary budget while overall spending simultaneously explodes.
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.
These days, he may run for president. His politics have changed.
The president's State of the Union address re-upped a tired, old promise to spend more tax dollars on less infrastructure.
A big part of Trump's appeal in 2016 was his forthright opposition to military interventionism. His record in office didn't match the rhetoric.
After $67 billion and more than 20 years, the F-22 finally won a dogfight against an unarmed, nearly immobile opponent.
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It was a blunder. Worse than that, it was a crime.
A new proposal to more than triple visa entry fees for performers will harm American audiences and culture.
Hungary's inflation hits 24.5 percent—the highest in the European Union—and Orbán's price controls aren't helping.