The Pentagon Accounts for More Than Half of the Federal Government's $1 Billion PR Budget
More than 5,000 people work in the federal government's PR machines; more than at the Department of Education.
Foreign Policy
Gary Johnson Endorses* Kmele Foster for 2020: The Fifth Column Goes Presidential
Libertarian nominee drops by to talk Aleppo, Black Lives Matter, Boston Globe, and whether he'll be veep under President Foster
Gary Johnson's Radical Foreign Policy Moment: Accused of "Moral Equivalence" Over Condemning U.S. Bombing of Civilians
The New York Times may think this will wound Johnson, but a similar moment of "unpopular" truthtelling regarding American foreign policy was the making of Ron Paul in 2007.
Tim Kaine Invokes bin Laden While Trying To Sell Hillary Clinton's Big ISIS Plan
But taking out al Qaeda's leadership probably didn't make the world any safer.
Yahoo Allegedly Scanned Incoming Emails on Behalf of NSA, FBI
This all happened last year, even after Snowden's revelations and government reforms.
Media Would Rather Talk About Gary Johnson's 'Aleppo Moment' Than a Damning New Report on Hillary Clinton's Actual War
While mainstream journalists yuk it up about Libertarian's "disqualifying" mistake, they are nearly 100% silent about the massive UK parliament report exposing Libya as a trumped up and abysmally planned intervention
Poll: Active Military Members Have Had Quite Enough of Nation Building, Regime Change
15 years of war have exhausted and demoralized U.S. troops.
Gary Johnson Has an 'Aleppo Moment' (His Unfortunate Words) on MSNBC
Asked by Chris Matthews to name a foreign leader he admires, the Libertarian blanks out.
Clinton Bemoans Those Who 'Try to Destabilize the World', But That's What She's Done
Complaints about Donald Trump don't make the U.S. any more a responsible player on the world's stage.
Neither Trump Nor Clinton Know a Damned Thing About Cybersecurity, and Yes, You Should Be Concerned
Who will actually be defining the agenda, because it won't be these two?
Trump's Foreign Policy in the Debate: Skeptical of Past Wars, Eager for New Ones
Last night Trump's foreign policy mouth seemed in some cases to be outrunning his mind, making a strict interpretation of his meaning difficult.
7 Issues That Won't Be Treated Seriously at Tonight's Debate in Gary Johnson's Absence
Remove the Libertarian and there goes fiscal sanity, federalism, and free speech.
Richard Epstein: Why Obamacare Is Collapsing and He's Not Voting for Trump, Hillary, *or* Johnson
Q&A with the great libertarian law professor on cigarettes, global warming, foreign policy, and much, much more.
Libya Intervention Was Based on "Erroneous Assumptions," According to Scathing U.K. Parliament Report
Hillary Clinton still calls Libya "smart power at its best," even though it looks more like what President Obama called it earlier this year-a "shit show."
Gary Johnson and Donald Trump Tied For Lead in New Military Poll
Libertarian, Republican candidates within the margin of error among U.S. military personnel; Hillary Clinton trails by more than 20 percentage points.
'I'm probably the person on the left who's most open to libertarian thinking'—Robert Scheer in Conversation With Matt Welch
New Left stalwart talks with libertarian journalist about Gary Johnson, crony capitalism, the Koch brothers, and war
Why Are Haiti's Coffee Trees So Tall?
Changing café culture and international do-gooderism collide on a troubled island.
Chicago's Awful Crackdown on Food Trucks
A pair of orchestrated hit pieces from media outlets has spurred the city to hand out massive fines.
Media Outlets Sue for Details on San Bernardino Terrorist IPhone Hack
FBI refuses to publicly reveal security vulnerability.
The Fifth Column on Gary Johnson, Colin Powell, Deplorable Baskets, Alluring Conspiracies, Black Panthers, and More
Your favorite three-way podcast is back after a week off for, uh, maintenance
U.S. Military Industrial Complex Gets Huge Subsidy in the Form of Record-Breaking Aid Package for Israel
Israel is fully capable of funding its own defense, but now they'll have billions more to spend on U.S. weaponry.
Is Cyber Privacy and Security a Human Right? Should It Be?
Group lists safeguards governments should follow before hacking citizens.
New Poll Puts Gary Johnson in First Place Among Active Duty Military and Veterans
But accurate online polling is tough, and accurate polling of the military is even tougher.
The Universal Basic Income: Innovative Social Welfare Reform or Satanic Plot?
An experiment in international aid hits a snag.
Rudy Giuliani Says "Anything is Legal" in War, Including Taking Iraq's Oil
On 9/11 anniversary, "America's Mayor" defends Donald Trump's "take the oil" refrain.
Gary Johnson Apologized to Veterans Group For His Supporters' "Harassment" Over His Exclusion From Presidential Forum
IAVA's Paul Rieckhoff says Johnson apologized for "threatening and unprofessional tactics" by some of his supporters.
Opioid Maker Donates to Help Halt Marijuana Legalization in Arizona
As if fentanyl's public relations aren't bad enough.
Hawks Love Their Foreign Policy Quizzes. But Do Americans Care?
While Lindsey Graham, Hillary Clinton, and the Washington Post guffaw at Gary Johnson, voters seem strangely unpersuaded by the language-policing of interventionists.
Regardless of Aleppo, Gary Johnson Is Only Candidate Talking Spending Cuts and Foreign-Policy Restraint
Wash Post op-ed lays out strong case for a president not beholden to either Dems or GOP.
Refugee Crisis Isn't Just About Aleppo, or Even Syria for that Matter
Lazy metonym that provides convenient framing.
Gary Johnson's Aleppo Gaffe Is an Inexcusable Blunder, But Hardly Unique to Presidential Candidates
"Serious" major party candidates screw up foreign policy questions almost every election cycle.
What Did Veterans Watching (and Protesting) the IAVA Commander in Chief Forum Think of the Candidates?
Reason spoke to vets tonight at IAVA's headquarters and outside the forum.
Military Members Are Into Gary Johnson, But NBC Won't Let Him Near Tonight's Forum
Clinton and Trump's unfavorables are higher among veterans than the general public, but they'll be featured at at tonight's IAVA event.
Trump Denounces Clinton's Wars, Calls for a Military Buildup
In two speeches, the Republican candidate mixes the refreshing and the ridiculous.
Obama and Xi 'Ratify' Paris Climate Change Agreement
But remember, the Paris Agreement is NOT a treaty!
Hillary Clinton's Parade of Disappearing Blackberries Is Your Holiday Weekend News Dump
Here's why calling Donald Trump 'reckless' doesn't pack that much of a punch.
#VeteransForKaepernick, Compulsory Patriotism, Free Speech, and Dissent
Freedom of expression and a tolerance for ideas that might offend are American ideals worth fighting for.
FBI's Comey Proposes an 'Adult Conversation' About Giving the FBI Whatever They Want
Two words from a government official to dismiss decades of expertise on encryption.
One Candidate Had a Foreign Policy That Anticipated Trump's
From George Wallace to Donald Trump
NSA 'Cyber Weapons' Leak Shows How Agency Prizes Online Surveillance Over Online Security
The NSA opportunistically hoards and deploys powerful bugs that make everyone less secure online.
Hillary Clinton's Staff Turned to Snowden's Wisdom for Cybersecurity Advice
Would she allow the rest of us to be equally protected?
Government-Sponsored Hacking of Activists Should Give Authorities Pause, Not Inspiration
How an oppressive Middle Eastern country led to everybody's iPhones getting a security update.
