Conservative Cancel Culture Comes to Kurdistan
Religious Kurds used social media to shut down a rap concert—and they're swinging their weight around politics, too.
Religious Kurds used social media to shut down a rap concert—and they're swinging their weight around politics, too.
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It's the economics of energy production that make petrostates more trigger-happy, Emma Ashford argues in Oil, the State, and War.
He claims he'll be "the first president to visit the Middle East since 9/11 without U.S. troops engaged in a combat mission there." But that's not true.
Ideas Beyond Borders is bringing ideas about pluralism, civil liberties, and critical thinking to hotbeds of Islamic extremism.
The co-founders of Ideas Beyond Borders talk about bringing Steven Pinker and John Stuart Mill to an audience dying for them.
Today's journalists aren't speaking truth to power by not-so-subtly agitating for direct military involvement in Ukraine.
The former Texas congressman and presidential candidate says his goal was to get people to think about freedom.
Biden rightly stuck to his guns when he defended the long-overdue U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, but he fails to apply the same logic elsewhere.
A new, heavily investigated report shows a Pentagon uninterested in correcting its deadly errors.
"Anyone in a black suit and a black mask can break into my house and take me and kill my family."
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad.
The Reign of Terror author on fighting surveillance and interventionism done in the name of stopping jihad.
Historian Stephen Wertheim says two decades of failed wars have finally made America more likely to embrace military restraint.
The foreign policy author and podcast host discusses Joe Biden's withdrawal and how to fix U.S. foreign policy.
The Enough Already: Time To End the War on Terror author on fixing foreign policy in the Joe Biden era.
I witnessed firsthand how U.S. actions that favored one group inevitably angered another, which is why the war is an endless game of whack-a-mole.
It may look like Congress is reclaiming its constitutional war powers, but the president still has plenty of ways to justify his military actions.
Saying that American troops are in Iraq for "training and advising" and not "combat" might sound nice, but it doesn’t get them out of harm’s way.
Keeping American boots on the ground means keeping them in harm's way.
Repeal would do little to change how Congress and the president collaborate—or don't—on military operations.
Whistleblowers and publishers are crucial for keeping government officials reasonably honest.
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Just keep an eye on the small print. The wars might officially end while still allowing inappropriate military meddling.
The 33-year-old successor to Justin Amash's House seat says his party has abandoned limited government, economic freedom, and individualism.
The president promised that any attack by Iran against the United States would be met with a response "1,000 times greater in magnitude!"
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon will be reducing troop levels in Iraq by a third.
"The best aspect of the Trump foreign policy is that he has revealed the mind of the foreign policy establishment," says historian Thaddeus Russell. "The worst part... he's a mass murderer just like the rest of them."
Rocket attacks and "precision defensive strikes" will bring us ever closer to truly endless war.
"Does this advance American safety and security? Does it make Americans freer and more prosperous? The answer is no."
The administration has been quietly escalating against Iran and its allies using a selection of counterterrorism laws that allowed it to act without going through Congress or the public.
The framers of the Constitution were quite right that wars should be difficult to start and easy to end.
Sending Omar Ameen back to Iraq will likely result in his execution, and the case against him doesn't make sense. The Trump administration is fighting to do it anyway.
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The nation's only female Olympic medalist says she has permanently left the Islamic Republic due to the oppression of women.
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“Let’s vote on this and see who is serious about ending forever wars.”
The Cato Institute's Christopher A. Preble lays out a uniquely libertarian approach to Iran, Iraq, and elsewhere.
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Tehran's response to the killing of Iranian military chieftain Qassem Soleimani threatens a deeper war.
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The vice president says assassinated Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was involved in the September 11 plot. That's as true as when Republicans said Saddam Hussein was.
About 1,000 left-wing demonstrators marched from the White House to Trump International Hotel to protest U.S. aggression against Iran.
The CIA and its defenders insisted that torture would help keep America safe. They were wrong.
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