Congress Wants To Force Pentagon To Buy Ships Against Its Will
Rather than cut defense spending, lawmakers seek armaments the Defense Department does not need.
Foreign Policy
Why Is Hillary Clinton Still a Hawk?
She refuses to learn from every failed foreign intervention.
Military Announces Its Own Transition Plan to Allow Transgender Troops
Yes they can now serve openly, but the regulations will be complicated.
Benghazi Just a Symptom; Interventionism Is the Disease
A bipartisan failure of judgment which shows all the signs of running on repeat.
Is the ACLU's Lawsuit Against Bad Anti-Hacking Law Ingenious or Terrifying?
Ending federal prosecution over violations of vague 'terms of service' rules may come at a cost.
Transgender Troops May Be Cleared to Serve Openly Starting This Week
Policies awaited for months expected in days.
Gary Johnson/William Weld: 'Skeptics' of Intervention That Will Involve Congress in Decisions on Military Action
Would also cut the military budget 20 percent, just like the rest of the federal budget.
International Criminal Court Sentences First Former Govt Official Convicted of Sex Violence War Crimes
The third person to be convicted by the ICC.
How Not to Fight Islamic Terrorism
Overseas attacks haven't worked, and pursuing more of them will only make things worse at home.
Terror Semantics, the AR-15 McGuffin, Runaway Aboutism, and the Clinton/Trump Follies: Working Through Orlando on The Fifth Column
Your favorite libertarian podcast tackles the nation's deadliest mass shooting
Defending Due Process for Pre-Criminals, and Criticizing Mike Rowe's Anti-Passion Absolutism
Matt Welch talks Orlando and more on Red Eye
Libertarian Candidate Gary Johnson Says Gun Restrictions Make Us Less Safe
Gun free zones and providing free recruiting services to ISIS by overly crediting Orlando shooting to foreign terror both condemned by Gary Johnson in interview this morning.
Speaker Paul Ryan Calls Orlando Shooting 'Another Act of War,' No Word on War Declaration
But no plan for Congress to vote on a declaration or authorization
U.S. Can't Be Responsible for ISIS in Syria Because There Wasn't an 'Intervention,' Says Vox
Blind spots big enough to get rebels through.
Trump Takes Credit for Hillary Clinton Using 'Radical Islam,' Calls on Her to Return Saudi Donations
Says he wants a safe society that's tolerant and open and also railed against Muslim immigration.
The Post-Orlando Trump/Clinton Crackdown
Matt Welch talks terrorism and the political instinct to control & clench on tonight's Kennedy
Trump Reiterates His Call for a Ban on Muslim Immigrants Because a Tiny Percentage Are 'Implicated in Terrorism'
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee exaggerates both the number of immigrants and the number who pose a domestic threat.
Killer Robots: Protectors of Human Rights?
Why a ban on the development of lethal autonomous weapons is premature
A New Place to Think About "Free Cities"
Can special economic zones and private cities morph to arenas for widespread, unprecedented market and regulatory liberty?
U.K.'s Mass Surveillance Bill Slightly Less Awful Than What Could Have Been
Demands for encryption back doors removed, sort of.
The Speed of Military Bureaucracy Annoys Those Waiting for Policies to Allow Transgender Troops
Pentagon announced planned changes last year but has gone silent.
Don't Let Hillary Clinton Off the Hook for Her Foreign Policy Mistakes Because of Donald Trump
Her finger on the trigger isn't safer.
New Episide of The Fifth Column Features Anthony L. Fisher on Muhammad Ali's Anti-War Legacy, and So Much More
Also, Michael Moynihan and Matt Welch talk about what it's like to be among the clapping seals in the audience of Real Time with Bill Maher.
Rand Paul Wants to End the Draft and Force Congress to Vote on Authorizing War
Libertarian-ish senator plans to introduce "The Muhammad Ali Voluntary Service Act" and force Congress to vote on Authorization of Use of Military Force.
Trump's Thin Skin vs. Clinton's Thick Head
On war and peace, he's dangerously unpredictable, while she's predictably dangerous.
Gary Johnson on Foreign Policy & War: We Need to Involve Congress in Decisions
The Libertarian nominee pitches himself to a mainstream audience
Muhammad Ali Was America's Most Effective Anti-War Advocate (And Still Is)
The Greatest put his life and career on the line and helped turn public sentiment against the Vietnam War.
Donald Trump on Libya: A 'Surgical' War Would've Been OK
It was Hillary Clinton's worst decision as secretary of state, yet Trump can't make a coherent case against it.
On Foreign Policy, Clinton Is Bad and Trump Is Worse
Trump's utter recklessness of thought should be disqualifying.
China's Other Cultural Revolution
Black markets, books, music, and sex in Mao's Middle Kingdom
Libertarian Gary Johnson Clarifies Foreign Policy Stances
Anti-Iran deal but pro-trade, wants to encourage China to curb North Korea, and too experienced with the actual complications of governing to want to rethink World War II on the fly.
Artificial Robot Brains Take Over the World
A review of The Age of Em: Work, Love, and Life When Robots Rule the Earth
Watch Hillary Clinton's Big 'National Security' Speech, What to Expect
2:30pm ET in San Diego
Thaddeus Russell vs. Michael Moynihan on Blowback: The Fifth Column Returns
Besides foreign policy, the quartet yaks about Kristolean futility, L.P. stripteases, America's new four-party system, and more. Â
Bill Kristol's Clownshow Has Made the Moobs-Stripper Party Look Sane
While #NeverTrumpers continue playing Fantasy Election-ball, Libertarians do the hard work to compete
Wake Up, Trump-Hugging Peaceniks: Trump's Tony Soprano Trade Policy Means More War
Being against NATO doesn't mean he's for peace.
6 Reasons Libertarian Party Delegates Are Wary of William Weld
And 2 reasons why he may yet win the VP nomination of a party that lustily boos its own likely presidential pick
If We Go Back to Libya, Where's It Going To Lead?
Obama looking to double down on past mistakes.
Encryption Is Winning! Celebrate, But Be Wary.
Terrible Senate bill is poised to go nowhere.
Trump Is Emboldening the Illiberal Hindu Fringe in India
America may survive a Trump presidency. But will the rest of the world?
