A Year of War in the Middle East Cost Americans Nearly $23 Billion
U.S. taxpayers are underwriting wars in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq.
U.S. taxpayers are underwriting wars in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq.
American taxpayers underwrite both the Israeli and Lebanese armies. Now they’re shooting at each other.
The first debate question was a pitch for war with Iran. Tim Walz and J.D. Vance both dodged it.
Commerce Secretary Raimondo insists the rule "is a strictly national security action."
Kamala Harris couldn’t realistically say how she would end the war in Gaza, and Donald Trump couldn’t realistically say how he would end the war in Ukraine.
Go after bribes and espionage, but leave mere speech alone.
Assassinating enemy leaders isn’t a silver bullet for solving international conflict.
The executive branch and the Senate have played hot potato with an infamous torture report, allowing the CIA to evade the Freedom of Information Act.
While the former congressman cares a lot about war powers, he has often flip-flopped on actually enforcing Congress’ red lines.
Israeli leaders have been betting on a U.S.-Iranian war for a while. After this week, it might be at their doorstep.
The late U.S. diplomat helped form America’s policies towards Iran, Iraq, and Israel. By the end of his life, he'd had enough.
The New Right talks a big populist game, but their policies hurt the people they're supposed to help.
Despite the party’s alleged turn against regime change wars, Pompeo’s stab-in-the-back myth has Republicans convinced that the same policy will work this time.
The president who helped end America’s longest war now regrets leaving behind U.S. bases.
Trump’s supporters tried to sell “peace through strength”—and war for “generations to come.”
Despite flirting with “America First” realism and restraint, the Republican ticket is all-in on the forever wars.
Even as he praises judicial decisions that made room for "dissenters" and protected "robust political debate," Tim Wu pushes sweeping rationales for censorship.
Assange's plea deal sets a threatening precedent for free speech and journalism.
Although the FBI never produced evidence that Ali Hemani was a threat to national security, it seems determined to imprison him by any means necessary.
The reaction to Ramzan Daraev’s death is an extreme example of anti-immigrant panic and national security paranoia.
The free speech absolutist and co-founder of The Intercept dives deep into Israel, Latin America, and the necessity of decentralized media in the age of U.S. security state overreach.
Cyber intrusions, arson, bombings, and other mayhem feature in the conflict between West and East.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about President Joe Biden holding up arms shipments to Israel.
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President Biden is holding up a shipment of 3,500 bombs to Israel, after months of resisting any conditions on U.S. aid to Israel.
The areas where you need FAA approval to fly a model plane or drone are surprisingly large.
Many of the Washington hawks calling for war with Iran had sworn up and down that more pressure was not a path to war.
Plus: A listener asks the editors for examples of tasks the government does well (yikes).
Increased spending does not automatically equate to higher quality—something that is often lost in this debate.
The measure would have required federal agents to get a warrant before searching American communications collected as part of foreign intelligence.
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Chinese camera drones are the most popular worldwide. American drone manufacturers argue that's a national security threat.
U.S. prosecutors are looking to wriggle out of an espionage trial for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Economic nationalists are claiming the deal endangers "national security" to convince Americans that a good deal for investors, employees, and the U.S. economy will somehow make America less secure. That's nonsense.
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The new Nigerien military government has ordered U.S. forces out of their expensive air base.
Instead of freeing Americans from censorship, the TikTok bill would tighten the U.S. government's control over social media.
During a congressional hearing, the former special counsel caught flak from Democrats outraged by his legally mitigating but politically damaging portrayal of the president.
In his State of the Union address, Biden promised indefinite U.S. involvement in Ukraine, Gaza, Yemen, and beyond.
A new bill would ban TikTok and give the president power to declare other social media apps off limits.
Jack Teixeira shared documents on the war in Ukraine to a gamer group on Discord.
The Secret Service’s strange reaction to the U.S. airman who lit himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy.
His lawyers assert presidential immunity and discretion, criticize an "unconstitutionally vague" statute, and question the special counsel's legal status.
The WikiLeaks founder already has spent as much time in a London prison as DOJ lawyers say he is likely to serve if convicted in the U.S.
Unlike Biden's conduct, Special Counsel Robert Hur notes, the document-related charges against Trump feature "serious aggravating facts."
Congress gave FISA’s Section 702 a brief lease on life, but civil liberties concerns haven’t gone away.