Joe Biden's natsec team fulfills his campaign promise of a return to normalcy and conventional Washington. That also means maintaining the failed status quo of the post-9/11 era.
Giving Tuesday is an appropriate time for me to begin carrying out my pledge to donate 50% of the royalties generated by my book "Free to Move" to charities benefiting refugees.
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There’s no journalist more relentlessly iconoclastic than Greenwald, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Snowden revelations.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist on Joe Biden, free speech, and leaving The Intercept for Substack.
The president-elect's forthcoming nomination of Antony Blinken as the country's top diplomat suggests an appetite for continuing America's role as the globe's policeman.
Virginia Postrel's new book explores economics, politics, and technology through textiles.
Amirani argues that the 1953 coup became the "playbook" for future U.S. covert actions in countries such as Guatemala, Vietnam, and Chile.
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft is promoting a more restrained foreign policy from inside the Beltway. But will the Biden administration listen?
For some, Trump’s troop drawdowns are too fast and too much. In reality, they’re too little and way too late.
Auditors now say the military may be able to pass an audit before the end of the next decade, so at least that's something.
Let’s not let fears of “Trump loyalists” overshadow positive outcomes.
If we can't trim the Pentagon's budget this year, will we ever?
Biden's underperformance among Cuban-American voters likely cost Democrats Florida. He can begin to heal the breach by reversing the Obama administration's cruel policy (continued by Trump) of barring most Cuban refugees.
The National Security Agency arranged for security systems to be secretly compromised. Then the Chinese government allegedly found its way in.
Privacy is a right, not a “high risk” and “possibly criminal” activity
American voters deserve careful scrutiny of the candidates' positions on individual conflicts.
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Giving one man control of all nuclear weapons is a mistake.
The costly fight over a “right to repair” proposal has led to a lot of cybersecurity fearmongering.
He is expected to be extradited to face the charges he knew were coming, which inspired his past few years of international exile.
When it comes to limiting the size and scope of government and protecting individual liberties, America's 45th president has been actively malign.
Unless the president takes action, the cap will fall to zero today due to an arbitrary and cruel refugee system.
Selling weapons to the UAE would stamp brutality and extremism abroad with American approval.
The net result of turning away foreign labor is greater unemployment—and lower wages—for native-born workers.
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That includes 1,114 armored personnel carriers.
So far, they don't seem to have actually closed the borders. But his threat probably has a different aim.
The documentary Coup 53 explores how a seemingly easy regime change wrecked U.S. foreign policy for decades.
New documentary explains why installing the shah in 1953 led to ruinous American covert operations throughout the Cold War and beyond.
The president promised that any attack by Iran against the United States would be met with a response "1,000 times greater in magnitude!"
Overblown fears of crime and terror from migrants did not bear out. But the fears were bad for migrants, would-be migrants, and natives alike.
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Sadly for the president, 2016 Libertarians are not "all Republican voters." Sadly for us, his opposition to "endless wars" doesn't translate into ending them.
Trump even vetoed a bill that would stop him from military action in Iran without congressional approval.
Exiled from the Republican Party, some Bush-era Republicans are now backing Joe Biden. Colin Powell endorsed him on Tuesday night.
We don’t trust state-controlled companies in China. Would it be different if we did more of the controlling?
The issue may be headed for the Supreme Court, which hopefully will reverse its 1981 ruling in Rostker v. Goldberg.
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The plan, whose timetable is uncertain, will reshuffle 5,600 troops elsewhere in Europe.
Much of the military spending in the GOP's HEALS Act replaces funding that was redirected to pay for Trump's border wall.
The horses used to belong to the Air Force, which makes only slightly more sense.
By kicking out critics on Twitch and Discord, is the military running afoul of the First Amendment?
"The best aspect of the Trump foreign policy is that he has revealed the mind of the foreign policy establishment," says historian Thaddeus Russell. "The worst part... he's a mass murderer just like the rest of them."
In woke corporate America, there's no statute of limitations on wrongthink.
Protectionism is now infecting the GOP to a degree that may be difficult to eradicate when the Trump era ends.
The Apocalypse Never author documents that things are getting greener and makes a case for nuclear power.
This isn't a bill about fighting child porn. Don't fall for it.
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