Gary Johnson's Refreshing Foreign Policy Skepticism
The Libertarian presidential candidate offers a cogent critique of Clintonian warmongering.
Foreign Policy
DOJ Uses Vague Court Request to Try to Demand People Unlock Any Fingerprint-Locked Phones
Amid debate over encryption access, feds try to just sneak right through.
Libyans Would Have Preferred Hillary Clinton Kept Her 'Smart Power' Away From Their Country
Five years after the fall of Gaddafi, some Libyans say life was better under dictatorship than the current chaos.
Shhhhh! Don't Tell Russia, but We're Totally Gonna Cyber Their Asses!
Maybe focus on protecting American data, not seeking revenge for Clinton's embarrassment?
There's Never Been A Better Time to Be Alive
Ronald Bailey reviews Johan Norberg's new book celebrating Progress
Ten Reasons to Look Foward to the Future: A Review of Progress by Johan Norberg
There's never been a better time to be alive
U.S. Looking to Escalate War in Yemen?
U.S. destroyer launches missiles at Yemen radar sites after missiles from Yemen miss destroyer.
As Donald Trump Falls, Will Gary Johnson Rise?
Almost certainly, especially now that he's honed his foreign policy chops.
Clinton Is Not the Tech Privacy Candidate. Not Your Privacy Anyway.
Podesta leak acknowledges her 'instincts' are to accept law enforcement's claims on encryption access and surveillance.
Anthony Fisher Talks Gary Johnson's Foreign Policy on Kennedy Tonight
A presidential candidate who is skeptical of non-stop military interventionism? Is that even allowed?
"Donald Trump Will Protect You. He Is the Only One Who Can."
Is Trump's new campaign ad just more high-level trolling of his foes, or another sign that we can't rightly expect a peaceful, non-bellicose Trump administration?
You Should Care About This Alleged Terrorist's Encryption Charges in England
Law criminalizes anything done in preparation for attack-including behavior that is normally legal.
Gary Johnson Lays Out a Sane, Coherent, Skeptical Foreign Policy
Libertarian candidate wants Congress to declare wars, interventions to have clearly defined goals, and an end to "War on Terror" victory fantasies.
Say 'Hi' to the NSA in Your Next Email
Sources say Yahoo let government malware scan the contents of all emails sent to Yahoo accounts. And why would the feds stop with Yahoo?
Hillary Clinton's Disqualifying Comments on Russia
Using Aleppo to gain leverage over a geopolitical foe.
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.
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.
