Critics allege, with some justice, that the Biden Administration is treating the former more favorably than the latter. If so, the right solution is to increase openness to Afghans and others fleeing war and repression, not bar more Ukrainians.
The co-founders of Ideas Beyond Borders talk about bringing Steven Pinker and John Stuart Mill to an audience dying for them.
Will Xi Jinping just chalk up Biden's latest remarks as an accidental straying from "strategic ambiguity"?
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Human smugglers at Mexican border won’t be sought after if migrants can come to the U.S. legally.
Plus: A listener asks if it’s possible for bureaucracy ever to be good.
There’s no endpoint in sight to a war that threatens widespread consequences.
A new White House policy faces one of the most malignant foreign policy objections: that it's not a magic wand for regime change.
Activist Fadi Elsalameen says U.S. aid doesn’t help Palestinians because of corruption. They need monetary freedom.
Supporting Ukraine in its battle against Russia doesn’t justify restrictions on speech and commerce.
Why do we have tariffs on imported formula in the middle of a shortage?
Nearly 4 million people fled Ukraine in the first month after the February 24 invasion, and thousands have left each day since.
International tensions empower politicians seeking to force the unwilling into government service.
The pact will phase down the use of HFC coolants.
Like AUMFs before it, Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s proposed authorization would lead to less transparency in conflicts and more unilateral decision making.
Instituting a "no-fly" zone would be the U.S. "essentially going to war with Russia."
The new policies include private refugee sponsorship for Ukrainians, and a possible plan to facilitate visas for Russians with high-tech skills. But much more remains to be done.
Tariffs requested by an "artisanal solar boutique" based in San Jose might jeopardize 45,000 jobs and halve America's future solar panel deployments.
Russia’s threats to reach into Transnistria could be a cheap distraction or an expansion of the conflict.
In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's time for Europe to step up and America to step back.
Mourn the end of a too-brief interlude of relative peace and prosperity.
Though the program has flaws, it’s an innovative way for private citizens to get directly involved in resettlement efforts for fleeing Ukrainians.
GAO: Congress has been buying planes that lack crucial parts and haven't undergone full testing, so costly upgrades will eventually be needed.
Critics are right to point out that some Western nations are treating Ukrainian refugees better than those fleeing similar horrific situations elsewhere. But the right way to address the problem is to increase openness to other refugees, not exclude Ukrainians.
Brookings Institution senior fellow William Galston debates former State Department diplomat Peter Van Buren
This war, like all wars, will invigorate the state and be deadly to liberty.
The White House is making it harder for people to request waivers from cost-increasing Buy America requirements in the $1.2 trillion infrastructure law.
Brookings Institution senior fellow William Galston debates former State Department diplomat Peter Van Buren
But politicians like Sen. Chris Coons are still flirting with the idea of direct American military intervention.
The proposed defense budget reaches $813 billion, and politicians still can’t think critically about how to spend it.
America has wrongly abandoned thousands of Afghan allies who had been promised Special Immigrant Visas. Now, private citizens, veterans, and government personnel are trying to get them out.
I coauthored it with Canadian immigration policy expert Sabine El-Chidiac.
The U.S. has taken in more Ukrainians through other migration pathways, but the low refugee tally shows how ill-prepared the U.S. refugee resettlement program was to help Ukrainians.
Plus, is the "Libertarian tent" too big?
Which boycotts, cancellations, and sanctions are defensible and well-targeted against the state actors who are responsible for the attack on Ukraine?
Putin and other Russian leaders are likely guilty of massive war crimes. And there is real, though limited, value to pursuing the issue.
An emergency measure proposed by Council Chairman Phil Mendelson would have given city officials the power to fine and close the city's unregulated cannabis "gifting shops."
Evidence mounts in Bucha, Ukraine, indicating that Russian troops killed civilians arbitrarily and mercilessly.
Reflections from Robert Leider on the oral argument in Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is leading his nation a just cause. But we should not allow him to impose censorship and emigration bans in the process. A nation fighting for freedom must not undermine it.
Small, private groups are working to feed the hungry and evacuate the endangered.
Immigration policy has been used as a non-martial weapon of war before. Let’s do it again.
Plus, the Reason editors' thoughts on Ketanji Brown Jackson
The president's new budget plan calls on Congress to tax wealthy Americans' unrealized capital gains.
Every fried Russian tank and dead soldier drives home the point that superpowers can no longer dominate simply because they have more troops and weapons.
But bureaucratic obstacles and other constraints might reduce the effectiveness of these policies. More needs to be done to open the door to Ukrainian refugees, and also to Russians fleeing Vladimir Putin's increasingly oppressive regime.
Officials must ensure that America's lethargic refugee processing and lengthy family-based visa backlogs can effectively handle the people they seek to help.
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