Foreign Policy

Policy

The Unlawfulness of Obama's ISIS Plan

Is the White House planning to run this war directly as LBJ did in Vietnam?

Andrew Napolitano | 9.18.2014 7:00 AM

World

Ticket Please

Charles Oliver | 9.18.2014 6:00 AM

World

Brickbat: Ticket Please

Charles Oliver | 9.18.2014 6:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: Obama Waffling, Benghazi Paneling, V.A. Stonewalling, Scottish Secession, Millennial Couch-Surfing, Biden Shylocking, Private Space-Taxis, and Anthony Fisher on ISIS Propaganda!

Matt Welch | 9.17.2014 8:35 PM

World

'World War III Is a Very Important, Very Progressive War'

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.17.2014 6:29 PM

Civil Liberties

The ISIS Conspiracies

How a century's worth of anxieties about America's southern border are affecting the latest foreign-policy crisis.

Jesse Walker | 9.17.2014 4:30 PM

Politics

Obama Promises That Military Operation Involving Hundreds of Airstrikes and Troops Won't Be a Combat Mission or a Ground War

Peter Suderman | 9.17.2014 4:07 PM

World

CIA to Obama: We Already Did Your Dumb Plan And It's 'Doomed to Failure'

Robby Soave | 9.17.2014 3:43 PM

Politics

The Hyped Up Western Jihadi Fear of ISIS

Don't freak out, America has endured worse subversives.

Shikha Dalmia | 9.17.2014 1:30 PM

Politics

Shikha Dalmia on ISIS's Existential Threat to Liberalism

Reason Staff | 9.17.2014 1:30 PM

World

Justin Amash: I Will Vote Against Arming Syrian Rebels

Robby Soave | 9.17.2014 12:44 PM

World

House Vote on Arming Syrian Rebels Expected Today

Reason Staff | 9.17.2014 12:06 PM

Constitution

U.S. Air Force Violates Constitution by Requiring Enlistees to Swear 'So Help Me God'

Ronald Bailey | 9.17.2014 11:02 AM

Politics

Rand Paul: "If it was wrong not to protect the consulate in Benghazi, then it's wrong not to protect the consulate in Erbil."

Explains rationale for military action in Iraq.

Nick Gillespie | 9.17.2014 10:45 AM

World

Is This New York Man an ISIS Terrorist?

Reason Staff | 9.17.2014 10:37 AM

Politics

Why the Scottish Should Vote 'Yes' on Independence

Scotland gave the world the Enlightenment. It's time for the modern heirs of Adam Smith and David Hume to claim their freedom.

Helen Dale | 9.17.2014 9:30 AM

World

Will Scotland Stay or Will It Go?

Reason Staff | 9.17.2014 8:25 AM

Policy

Obama's Dumb, Rash, and Unilateral War

Don't buy the president's lame excuses for attacking ISIS without congressional approval.

Jacob Sullum | 9.17.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: 'Boots on the Ground' and Other Linguistic Evasions, the ISIS Non-Strategy, the War on Ebola, Smoking in New York, Obamacare Bummers, Benghazi Update, and Aftershow

Matt Welch | 9.16.2014 8:23 PM

World

John McCain Loves the Syrian Rebels, But Confuses Them With ISIS

Robby Soave | 9.16.2014 5:30 PM

Politics

Instapundit: Don't Fear the Leaker!

Nick Gillespie | 9.16.2014 4:34 PM

Politics

Get Ready for Boots on the Ground in Iraq…

Nick Gillespie | 9.16.2014 3:58 PM

War

Breaking News (OK, Not Really): McCain Wants Boots on the Ground in Syria

Lucian McMahon | 9.16.2014 2:45 PM

World

Obama Struggles to Build Anti-ISIS Coalition

Everybody is a bit tired of endless war

Reason Staff | 9.16.2014 2:27 PM

ISIS

Conference on ISIS Excludes Syria, Iran; Iran, U.S. Reject Idea of Cooperating Militarily

Ed Krayewski | 9.16.2014 1:54 PM

Politics

Anthony Fisher on The Blaze's "Real News" Today at 7p ET

Anthony Fisher | 9.16.2014 1:43 PM

Politics

Ukraine Ratifies E.U. Association Deal, Grants Rebels Self-Rule

Zenon Evans | 9.16.2014 12:31 PM

Policy

Common Core Will Make Schools in U.S. More Like China and That's Not a Good Thing

Robby Soave | 9.16.2014 12:13 PM

Policy

Pentagon: U.S. Ground Troops May Fight ISIS in Iraq

Reason Staff | 9.16.2014 11:38 AM

Culture

Taking 'We Report, You Decide' to a New Level

The Fox with two faces.

Jesse Walker | 9.16.2014 10:32 AM

World

U.S. Troops Will Battle Ebola in West Africa

Reason Staff | 9.16.2014 8:48 AM

ISIS

US Launches Expanded Airstrikes Against ISIS in Iraq

It begins.

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 8:25 PM

Politics

Tonight on The Independents: The Skies Over Baghdad Have Been Re-Illuminated, Chris Moody on Rand Paul's Flip-Flops, Jacob Sullum on Asset Forfeiture, Former Linebacker Darrell Reid on the NFL, Plus NSA, Chinese Sidewalks, Hillary, & Aftersho

Matt Welch | 9.15.2014 8:13 PM

ISIS

White House Pushing Congress to Arm Syrian Rebels

What could possibly go wrong?

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 1:55 PM

Politics

Rand Paul: Thin-Skinned, Flip-Flopping, Question-Dodging Candidate?

Robby Soave | 9.15.2014 1:15 PM

World

Barbara Lee's Lonely Vote After 9/11: A Look Back

Thirteen years after Rep. Lee opposed an Authorization for Use of Military Force, her solitary stance has become mainstream.

Jesse Walker | 9.15.2014 11:35 AM

Politics

Second-Ever Libertarian Elected in Russia

Zenon Evans | 9.15.2014 11:10 AM

Politics

John Kerry Admits It: "We Are at War" with ISIS (But No Congressional Authorization Needed)

Nick Gillespie | 9.15.2014 8:47 AM

World

Propaganda Watch: Lindsey Graham Says ISIS Coming to U.S. to Kill Everyone

Robby Soave | 9.15.2014 8:45 AM

Civil Liberties

"We Serve Bacon in Our Restaurants for One Reason: We Are a Christian Nation. Not a Jewish or Islamic One. QED."

Nick Gillespie | 9.15.2014 7:58 AM

World

Obama's Unnecessary, Unpromising War

We don't know how to conduct a successful war against the Islamic State.

Steve Chapman | 9.15.2014 7:00 AM

Politics

Ending the Global Drug War: Voices from the Front Lines

Anthony Fisher | 9.14.2014 1:00 PM

Politics

Three Reasons to NOT Fight ISIS

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 9.13.2014 2:26 PM

ISIS

Somebody Tell Kerry: White House Says We're at War with ISIS

What with the airstrikes and all

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 5:15 PM

War

Terrorist Sympathizer Rep. Peter King Wants Another Decade of War Against Terrorists

Lucian McMahon | 9.12.2014 3:51 PM

Barack Obama

Obama's War on ISIS Betrays the Constitution, Asserts New York Times Op-Ed

Ronald Bailey | 9.12.2014 3:41 PM

Politics

Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? Opens Today

Nick Gillespie | 9.12.2014 2:03 PM

Politics

Airstrikes Are Like 'Casual Sex,' Says Former NSA Head Michael Hayden

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.12.2014 1:45 PM