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Ideas

Bourgeois Libertarianism Could Save America

Don't underestimate the civilization-saving powers of respecting private property and generally minding your own business.

Brian Doherty | 11.29.2020 6:00 AM

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Afghanistan

Trump Administration Says It's Ready to Sign Peace Deal With the Taliban by the End of the Month

Left unspecified: how many U.S. troops would be coming home, and when

Christian Britschgi | 2.21.2020 2:25 PM

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Marianne Williamson

Marianne Williamson Wants To Defeat Dark Psychic Forces With New Department of Peace

True to form, the presidential hopeful is turning the conversation around war on its head.

Billy Binion | 8.21.2019 12:10 PM

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Foreign Policy

As Politics Get Shaken Up, a Peace Coalition Emerges

It's refreshing to see many conservatives abandon their kneejerk support for militarism, and nice to watch Joe Biden be held accountable for his support for the Iraq blunder.

Steven Greenhut | 7.19.2019 8:00 AM

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Rand Paul

Rand Paul Wants To Be Trump's Man in Iran. That Would Be Good News for Peace.

Serving as an alternative voice to the likes of Lindsey Graham and John Bolton could keep the U.S. out of unnecessary wars.

Scott Shackford | 7.17.2019 2:45 PM

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Future

We Live in a World of Reliable Miracles

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 7.1.2019 6:00 AM

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Donald Trump

'Peace Through Strength' Is a Racket

The way to achieve peace is not to prepare for war but to reject militarism and empire, and embrace nonintervention.

Sheldon Richman | 2.18.2018 8:00 AM

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Military

Fewer People Exposed to Horrors of War

In general, the world is becoming a more peaceful place as the percentage of the total labor force represented by armed forces personnel declines.

Marian Tupy | 5.30.2017 7:00 AM

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Donald Trump

Trump: Uniquely Qualified for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal?

Trump isn't very engaged with the issue. Maybe that's a good thing.

Ed Krayewski | 5.23.2017 5:45 PM

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Social Science

How Would You Behave If the World Was Ending?

Apparently most folks would be nicer to each other.

Ronald Bailey | 3.22.2017 4:40 PM

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War

There Was More Than One Christmas Truce

Officers tried to stop the Christmas Truce of 1914 from recurring, but they didn't always succeed.

Jesse Walker | 12.21.2016 2:15 PM

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Technology

There's Never Been A Better Time to Be Alive

Ronald Bailey reviews Johan Norberg's new book celebrating Progress

Ronald Bailey | 10.14.2016 1:30 PM

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Colombia

Did the Climate Influence Colombian Voters' Rejection of the FARC Peace Deal?

The political climate in Colombia and especially next-door Venezuela may have, a lot more than any weather concerns.

Ed Krayewski | 10.3.2016 3:45 PM

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Technology

American Pessimism: Only 6 Percent Think the World Is Getting Better

Over the past century, the prospects and circumstances of most of humanity have spectacularly improved

Ronald Bailey | 7.7.2016 10:13 AM

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Peace

The Season of Peace Requires Action, Not Songs

Singing about peace and goodwill while cheering America's warrior state is a repulsive spectacle.

Sheldon Richman | 12.31.2015 12:00 AM

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Colombia

Peace City

Jesse Walker | 12.1.2015 12:00 PM

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Nobel Prize

Nobel Peace Prize: In Tunisia Alone Is the "Arab Spring" Still Green

Here's hoping that the award will help safeguard Tunisia's nascent democracy.

Ronald Bailey | 10.9.2015 11:23 AM

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Colombia

In Colombia's Civil War, Peasants Try to Build an Island of Peace

And of voluntary self-government too

Jesse Walker | 9.3.2015 12:55 PM

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Iran

The Iran Debate and the Echoes of History

Criticism of presidential treaties with adversarial governments goes back a long way.

Steve Chapman | 7.16.2015 12:01 AM

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World War 1

The Christmas Truce of World War I

Recalling the time, 100 years ago, when soldiers refused to fight each other

Wendy McElroy | 12.24.2014 1:00 PM

Rand Paul

The Secret 'Isolationist' Majority That's Lurking Until After the Election

J.D. Tuccille | 11.3.2014 10:05 AM

War

4 Ways Democrats Are Full of Shit

Jason Keisling and J.D. Tuccille | 10.16.2014 2:30 PM

Obama Administration

Friday Funnies: Anti-War, When Convenient

Henry Payne | 10.3.2014 7:00 AM

Barack Obama

Friday Funnies: About That Nobel Peace Prize…

Chip Bok | 9.26.2014 7:00 AM

Israel

The Battered Israeli Anti-War Movement

Anthony Fisher | 7.31.2014 5:15 PM

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Barack Obama

Obama and Kerry Jeopardize Peace With Iran

Why does their rhetoric make us doubt their sincerity about seeking a diplomatic resolution?

Sheldon Richman | 1.31.2014 10:30 AM

Palestine

Palestinians Rule Out Extending Peace Talks

Beyond the nine-month time frame

Reason Staff | 12.23.2013 5:20 PM

Iran

Negotiating with Iran is Better than War

Diplomatic deterrence has a more impressive track record.

Gene Healy | 12.3.2013 2:00 PM

Israel

UN Warns New Israeli Settlement Could Set Back Peace Talks

Something always seems to be setting them back

Reason Staff | 11.19.2013 5:50 PM

Israel

Peres Asks Kerry Not to Screw Up Israel-Palestine Peace Plan

Yes, let's just stay out of it entirely

Reason Staff | 11.6.2013 3:50 PM

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Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning: I'm a Transparency Activist, Not a Peace Activist

Scott Shackford | 10.9.2013 6:30 PM

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Chelsea Manning: Leak Motivation Was Transparency, Not Peace Activism

Does not consider herself to be a pacifist -- rather she wanted public to be better-informed

Reason Staff | 10.9.2013 2:40 PM

Violence

Is War Declining—and Why?

Ronald Bailey | 5.28.2013 5:15 PM

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