The Saudis Need Us, Not the Other Way Around
The U.S. should not let its foreign policy be dictated by threats from Saudi Arabia, or anyone else.
The U.S. should not let its foreign policy be dictated by threats from Saudi Arabia, or anyone else.
It's bad when U.S. presidents think of weapons sales to dictatorships as jobs programs, but should we remove political constraints on arms dealing altogether?
Plus: Kavanaugh and Gorsuch differ during immigration case.
If the Navy wants people to trust that it's taking steps to be better, less transparency isn't going to help.
The bigger the company, the bigger the target.
An absurdly petty intersection of anti-gay and anti-foreigner policies.
What happens when autonomous machines have "to choose between various shades of wrong?" A Q&A with defense analyst Paul Scharre.
The "largest women's empowerment program" was supposed to benefit 75,000 women.
Technically he's been yelling it at all of us for years now.
"For all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us," Bolton reportedly plans to say.
A new book ties racist reactionary politics to the war, but overreaches when it comes to militias.
Draft legislation would force tech companies to compromise encryption at the government's demand.
State Rep. Brandon Phinney talks about removing outdated laws, being an Army reservist against interventionism, and what the L.P. needs to do in an era of Trumpism and Democratic Socialism.
Your unfettered expression is only one click away, and the late senator himself engaged in ritual self-criticism, Matt Welch argues on Bloggingheads.
What the reaction to John McCain's death tells us about the values of Washington's political class
Is another bureaucracy really going to solve the problem?
The late Arizona senator's relentless energy and patriotic sense of honor led him to heroic acts of defiance, but also misguided support for disastrous foreign interventions.
Trump says it's D.C. politicians' fault his military parade got postponed. But at least now we can afford more jet fighters!
According to the official handling the teen's asylum application, his walk, dress, and actions proved he couldn't be gay.
Which is actually not too bad by Pentagon standards.
The language police have come for the space geeks.
Trump is wrong about tariffs and so was Alex Hamilton.
Another propaganda victory for the Taliban, and another awful reminder that America's longest war is still an aimless disaster.
"Diplomatic isolationists" who want to quash any dialog with Russia for partisan reasons are missing out on chances for progress on nuclear weapons and terrorism, the Senator believes.
"It was not very hard" to get the spending bill through Congress, Trump said. And he's definitely right about that.
Alcoa says it needs protection from protectionism. That should be a lesson for the administration.
A new military service focused on space would be a burden on both taxpayers and the private space industry.
The Pentagon can't create an entirely new branch of the military on its own. But it's moving forward where it can.
Cybercurrencies are not as anonymous as you might think.
The famed astrophysicist thinks a lot of people are only against the Space Force because it was Trump's idea.
Friday A/V Club: The wild world of low-budget survivalist videos
President Trump suggested earlier this week that the "aggressive" Montenegrins could spark a global conflict.
Paul defends Trump's conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in the name of diplomacy.
Rigid work restrictions forced hundreds of thousands of people to sit in camps, in limbo, living on taxpayer money. Nothing good can come from that.
The Peruvian economist says blockchain technologies and social media will transform the planet by securing property rights.
If foreign hackers are immune from American civil suits under current law, don't be surprised to see Congress step in to try to close the loophole.
Cherry growers get hit with steep tariffs right in the middle of their harvest season.
In Trump's world, "everyone" is absolutely thrilled about his widely criticized plans to establish an entirely new branch of the U.S. military.
It is systematically jamming every legal channel with red tape.
If there wasn't enough reason to stop selling arms to the Saudis, a new report found that they were responsible for most of the child casualties in Yemen.
The Senate asks the Pentagon's F-35 program to explain its sizable discrepancy in savings estimates.
The story of how classical liberal Justice George Sutherland enabled executive overreach abroad.
Amash was one of just three House Republicans to vote against the spending bill.
Pentagon officials are dragging their feet as they begin planning the military parade ordered by President Trump.
"The business of buying weapons that takes place in the Pentagon is a corrupt business."
The late travel host changed television—and my life.