Soft Hearts and Hard Minds: The Enduring Challenge of U.S. Foreign Policy
In the case of CIA torture, hard hearts mixed with soft minds to further a policy that was not only grotesque, but unwise.
Policy
Political Predictions for 2015
What to expect in Congress, foreign policy, technology, the stock market, and more.
Virginia's New Gun Control Proposals Won't Protect Public Safety
Most Second Amendment restrictions take rights away from people who don't commit crimes and never will.
The Strange Source of Our Cuba Policy
What does the Electoral College have to do with our shunning of Cuba? Plenty.
What Obama's Cuba Deal Means for the Future of Cuban Cigars
Don't stop hoarding those Cuban cigars just yet.
Cops Seized Couple's $160,000 Wine Collection—And Want to Destroy It All
When it comes to alcohol laws, Pennsylvania is about as close to Saudi Arabia as you can get in America.
The Paris Climate Negotiations Next Year Will Be a Fiasco
Why there will not be a global climate change treaty in 2015
Did the Red Cross Let Its Fear of the Occupy Movement Interfere with Its Disaster Relief?
An exposé from ProPublica suggests it did.
The Newtown Families' Lawsuit Ignores Fact That Vast Majority of AR-15s Are Used Responsibly
Gun control advocates fighting "assault weapons" have two formidable enemies: the law and experience.
How a Bipartisan Majority in Congress Shredded the Constitution, Again.
Hidden in the Cromnibus was a clause allowing the NSA to gather your private data and share it with law enforcement and foreign governments.
Centralized Policing Is the Wrong Solution
Elinor Ostrom and the case against centralization
