Congress Does Not Want Its War Power
A Senate vote shows that even Trump critics are happy to let the president use the military as he pleases.
A Senate vote shows that even Trump critics are happy to let the president use the military as he pleases.
Kentucky senator talks about his vote on intervention-authorizations, says John McCain "has never met a war he wasn't interested in getting the U.S. involved in," and worries about "these generals whispering in" Trump's "ears every day."
The president increasingly sounds like his national security advisor, H.R. McMaster. And that isn't good.
How many people will die for Donald Trump's mistaken belief that only "political correctness" is holding America back from victory?
The great disrupter of the establishment turns out to be-surprise, surprise-a man of the establishment.
The Kentucky congressman tells John Stossel why we should withdraw immediately from this "graveyard of empires."
Discussing Trump, Afghanistan, identity politics and more with Jesse Jackson, Paul Begala, Frank Bruni, and Nayyera Haq
The president's proclamations about Afghanistan are not a plan; they're a letter to Santa Claus.
The president's latest flip-flop is total and appalling. Will it finally alienate his base?
Amid efforts to get Congress to vote on a new Authorization for Use of Military Force
Says he's going against his first instinct, but that that's what presidents do.
Reason editors discuss the president's attack on the Arizona senator, Steve Bannon's exit, and what's next in Afghanistan.
If it's what they really want they're going about it in the wrongest way.
Erik Prince's plan may be better than the status quo, but that doesn't mean it's the best path.
He should resist efforts within his administration to escalate it instead.
Past time for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan.
If we can't get people to stop using heroin, suggests Matt Mayer, why don't we just invade the country that produces it?
But the event's sponsor says its visa approval rate was remarkably high and that no other country could offer such access.
A U.S. airstrike in Mosul could have caused the largest civilian casualties since the start of the Iraq War.
But what can the U.S. accomplish in its 16th year in Afghanistan that it couldn't accomplish in the first 15?
Bombing campaign in Yemen intensifies as additional troops head to Syria, elsewhere.
America has been trying to have it both ways for too long.
The media's favorite maverick makes his priorities clear: America must stay militarily extended, forever
In 2009, Barack Obama acknowledged that the Nobel Peace Prize honor was aspirational. In 2017, it still is.
The Libertarian presidential candidate offers a cogent critique of Clintonian warmongering.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA)'s Commander-in-Chief Forum won't include the one candidate least likely to create more combat veterans.
The one member of Congress who voted against military force after 9/11 supports career-long hawk Hillary Clinton.
Year fifteen of the U.S. in Afghanistan
Sixteen people have been disciplined, but will not face charges.
Opium production up since the Taliban left, after billions spent on counternarcotics.
U.S. troops still in the country to "train" and "assist."
Watch the Army Rangers who founded Combat Flip Flops speak with Reason TV. Then watch them pitch the sharks on ABC at 9 p.m.
Messes for a legacy.
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