Donald Trump's Libertarian Christmas?: Podcast
Reason editors' best and worst moments of 2018, including the president's welcome and long-overdue drawdown from Afghanistan
Reason editors' best and worst moments of 2018, including the president's welcome and long-overdue drawdown from Afghanistan
Plus: United Nations goes to bat for Julian Assange and Slack censors chat with Iranians.
After announcing draw-down from Syria, the president may be seriously contemplating getting out of Afghanistan as well.
"Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East?" the president asks-and gets a resounding yes from Republicans and Democrats.
Donald Trump explains his decision to withdraw from Syria directly to the American people.
Rep. Justin Amash: "U.S. forces should not be engaged in Syria...without legitimate military justification AND proper congressional authorization."
In a case SCOTUS will hear next month, victims of Tennessee's protectionism argue that it flouts the 14th Amendment as well as the Commerce Clause.
The administration is trying to reinterpret a 2008 agreement with the Vietnamese government.
Plus: Google hearing once again reveals legislative ignorance on tech and IRS auditors target more low-income taxpayers.
Defense budgeting should be a strategy debate, not a rubber stamp for higher spending
Parliament passes a bill at the last possible moment to give officials the power to weaken encryption.
Also: How much should we care that Trump & co. lied in 2016 about a Putin-proximate real estate deal in Russia?
We should, but probably won't, learn the lesson that U.S. presidents don't have to control or even fully understand world events.
Plus: good signs in Supreme Court case on asset forfeiture and Ashley Judd talks prostitution.
Our options have fallen into two categories: bad and worse.
The church faced a dilemma: "choosing between respect for the government and protecting the rights of a child."
A soldier died in Afghanistan over the Thanksgiving holiday. Why are we still there?
Plus: U.S. support for gay speakers rose as support for racist speakers diminished.
Assessing the import of presidential tantrums, media hyperbole, military complaints, and the near-arrival of federal sentencing reform
"Operation Faithful Patriot" is nothing more than a very expensive, politically motivated P.R. campaign.
According to Deputy Secretary Patrick Shanahan, no one expected it to pass anyway.
Both casualties and expenses are rising.
His anti-asylum proclamation is illegal and an abuse of his executive powers.
Should the Senate majority leader really be celebrating more reckless spending?
If only the lessons of Vietnam, or even of Iraq, would actually stick.
There will be no military parade today. There shouldn't be one any other day, either.
"Training" is not a good enough justification for spending $200 million to send 8,000 troops to the border.
If the Space Force goes down before it ever got up on its feet, that's probably for the best.
Trump can probably find someone better to set up barbed wire fences on the border.
This common argument has multiple flaws - including implying that the ancestors of most Americans were wrong to immigrate here.
Trump's comments are not the same as the Nigerian Army's actions. But regardless of the nation, shooting protesters is bad.
John Bolton makes a pitch for American confrontations with Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
The government's Afghanistan watchdog releases sobering report on the progress of the war.
Can we stop being surprised (or pretending to be surprised) at well-established critiques of interventionism?
American policy created it.
Plus: Southern border will see more troops than Iraq, Syria.
The Trump administration should take them in to make amends, not spurn them
As it turns out, the 3D-printed solution costs 50 cents
Plus: Trump condemns poor cover-up of Saudi journalist killing and Houston compromises on sex robots.
Talking about everything from Central Europe to interventionism to Bill Weld on The Tom Woods Show
The bill may be new, but Amash's criticism of the Saudi regime is not.
Reloaders and DIY gunmakers alike are motivated by innovation and a willingness to make for themselves what the government doesn't want them to have.