Were Anti-War Libertarians Gullible for Believing Trump Would Take on the War Party?
Matt Welch talks with MilLiberty about foreign policy, post-communist Europe, collectivist antipathies, and the apocalyptic style within libertarianism
Matt Welch talks with MilLiberty about foreign policy, post-communist Europe, collectivist antipathies, and the apocalyptic style within libertarianism
The president's proclamations about Afghanistan are not a plan; they're a letter to Santa Claus.
The president's latest flip-flop is total and appalling. Will it finally alienate his base?
American protectionism has repeatedly failed as an economic strategy.
Amid efforts to get Congress to vote on a new Authorization for Use of Military Force
Imperialism is not the highest stage of capitalism, as Karl Marx claimed.
Nicolas Maduro's brand of socialism has brought poverty, hunger, and death.
The Truman war council discussed using atomic bombs just two weeks after the Korean War started.
Despite evidence they may make things worse, airstrikes are mistakenly seen as a perfectly reasonable response.
What does it mean when a president is constantly worried that we 'won't have a country' anymore?
Five members of the military disclosed their status. Now they're worried they'll get kicked out.
Lessons about U.S. interventionism fast forgotten.
President Trump's new ban didn't just "blindside" military brass and disrespect equality under the law, it's founded on a lie.
A GOP bill would set up impossible obstacles for fleeing foreigners
Who will be ejected under this abrupt reversal of Pentagon policy?
Congress limiting president's power to loosen sanctions, but not to pursue military adventurism.
How flag-waving nationalism provides cover for a destructive economic policy.
Don't let Russia hysteria torpedo a better foreign policy.
The cancer-stricken senator's eternal pursuit of honor and integrity are a welcome tonic in a tawdry age, even while his policy misjudgments helped pave the way for the new Republican politics he abhors.
Government authorities refuse to consider uncontrollable, dangerous consequences of breaking data privacy.
A British spy. An Arizona senator. And one inflammatory dossier on Donald Trump. The connection between them is starting to unravel...
How the Arab world's top satirist was censored, persecuted, and driven out.
Big foreign policy heave, featuring Bloomberg's Eli Lake
The president's Warsaw speech takes a paranoid view of internal threats while downplaying the central role that international exchange has played in the rise of the West.
Truck operator: "I feel like this city is about nepotism, cronyism and favoritism."
Despite threat inflation by Iran hawks, the country has limited capabilities.
A certain amount of danger is unavoidable in a multinational world. And the dangers of trying to achieve total security are the worst dangers of all.
A South Carolina Supreme Court decision rejects rules based on economic protectionism.
Global refugee population from 2012-2016 spikes from 10.5 million to 17.2 million; Trump so far admitting fewer than 3,500 per month
The U.S. shoots down a Syrian fighter jet; Russia responds by warning US planes could be considered air targets.
By a closer margin than the last time Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Chris Murphy (D-Ct.), and Al Franken (D-Minn.) tried to block a Saudi arms deal.
Imprisoning people who reveal top-secret reports has become business as usual. Should it be?
Both Trump and his mainstream critics are wrong about NATO.
Private enterprise helps global economic development in ways besides simple charity.
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Here's what the law says.
It raises the perennial question about Trump: What's worse-if he doesn't know what he's doing or if he does?
In general, the world is becoming a more peaceful place as the percentage of the total labor force represented by armed forces personnel declines.
Faith, dogma, and the constant reinvention of U.S. foreign policy
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But he's diminished the strength of that demand since taking office.
The novelist, activist, and BoingBoing founder on cyber warfare, Uber-style reputation economics, and what he's likely to get arrested for someday.
Trump isn't very engaged with the issue. Maybe that's a good thing.