ISIS

Politics

With Friends Like These: Bush Lawyer John Yoo Backs Obama's Undeclared War on ISIS

Damon Root | 9.18.2014 10:18 AM

Iran

Iran Skeptical About American Mission in Iraq

Iranian president called the US-led coalition "ridiculous."

Reason Staff | 9.18.2014 8:35 AM

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

Terrorism

Terrorists on the Southern Border vs. Terrorists Sponsored by the FBI

Lucian McMahon | 9.17.2014 10:30 PM

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

ISIS

Aid to Syria Rebels Passes House

Obama's plan gets approval.

Reason Staff | 9.17.2014 5:40 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

ISIS

Obama: 'No Combat Mission' Creep in Iraq

What about those troops we've already got on the ground?

Reason Staff | 9.17.2014 2:30 PM

ISIS

ISIS Wants Gamers, Apparently

Scott Shackford | 9.17.2014 2:15 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

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

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

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

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

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

Is the Justice Dept.'s New Program to Find Homegrown Terrorists Wonderful or Worrisome (or Both)?

Scott Shackford | 9.15.2014 5:15 PM

ISIS

White House Pushing Congress to Arm Syrian Rebels

What could possibly go wrong?

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 1:55 PM

ISIS

DOJ Launching Program to Try to Stop Americans from Joining Groups Like ISIS

"Terrorism: Not Even Once"

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 1:40 PM

Politics

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

Robby Soave | 9.15.2014 1:15 PM

ISIS

Thirty Countries Meet in Paris to Talk ISIS

Want a global war on terror, if you will

Reason Staff | 9.15.2014 11:05 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

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

ISIS

Obama Met with Journalists Before ISIS War Speech

Dude, they're not the ones you need to get permission from.

Reason Staff | 9.13.2014 8:25 PM

ISIS

ISIS Claims to Have Executed British Aid Worker

Reason Staff | 9.13.2014 6:50 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

ISIS

CIA Triples Estimate of Size of ISIS

From 10,000 people to more than 30,000

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 3:20 PM

Politics

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

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.12.2014 1:45 PM

Policy

Finding the Right Rebels to Arm in Syria May Be Tricky

Jacob Sullum | 9.12.2014 1:06 PM

World

Obama Admin Threatened to Prosecute Foleys if They Paid Son's Ransom

Reason Staff | 9.12.2014 12:42 PM