A leading US expert on Russia advocates outreach to Putin's Russian opponents and encouraging emigration from Russia. The best way to encourage Russians to leave is to allow more of them to come to the West.
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There’s no neat and clean way to fight a war, even for victims of aggression.
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The Pentagon’s “accounting error” will allow President Joe Biden to send an extra $3 billion in military aid to Ukraine without congressional approval. Was this deliberate?
He's not wrong about that.
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May Day should be a day to honor victims of an ideology that took tens of millions of lives. But we should also be open to alternative dates if they can attract broad enough support.
It has been reprinted (with permission) by the Cato Institute.
The Department of Justice emulates the Kremlin in smearing government critics as foreign agents.
The journalist and dissident, who was sentenced to 25 years in a penal colony for criticizing the Russian government, has not received the same attention.
Online media companies got exactly what they said they wanted.
That doesn't mean Russia is right. It means we're being honest about how much the U.S. is involved.
Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia last month on espionage charges. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in a penal colony.
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He made it prior to being sentenced to 25 years in prison for speaking out against Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine.
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While escalation is not inevitable, it’s still a risk having any U.S. boots on the ground.
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Does Ukraine face an existential risk? Does it matter?
Are we stumbling into disaster? Again?
H.B. 4736 would punish foreigners who are, in many cases, deliberately building lives far away from their repressive countries.
The charge is the crime of illegal kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian children.
It's an impressive achievement. But we can do much more. Canada's much greater openness to immigration is an indication of what's possible.
DeSantis' foreign policy seems to be defined by a simple rule: Whatever Democrats do is wrong, but whatever Republicans do is right.
The legislation, which forbids shipping anything between American ports in ships that are not U.S. built and crewed, is just another a special deal that one industry has scammed out of Congress.
A compilation of my work on this topic, on the one-year anniversary of the start of Vladimir Putin's attempt to conquer Ukraine.
The war is often described as a conflict between authoritarianism and liberal democracy. That reality has some underappreciated implications.
What was a local conflict is shaping up as a battle between alliances.
After one year, whatever morale boost Biden’s visit provided won’t necessarily have concrete, strategic effects in Ukraine.
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Global hunger declined for decades before pandemic policies and Russia’s invasion broke the world.
Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Ilya Yashin explains why the West should avoid ascribing collective guilt to Russians. He's right on both moral and pragmatic grounds.
His State of the Union address sketched a foreign policy that is reckless on some points, relatively restrained on others, and utterly uninterested in any real resolution to America’s lingering military entanglements.
Alarmists are unfazed by the lack of evidence that "foreign influence campaigns" have affected public opinion or voting behavior.
"I think we need to just call this out on the bullshit it is."
Western nations should adopt a general policy of granting refuge to Russians seeking to avoid conscription, and otherwise fleeing Vladimir Putin's increasingly repressive regime.
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is supposed to insulate the U.S. from oil embargoes and foreign wars. More often, it has been used like an insurance policy for private companies.
Researchers: Moscow’s social media meddling had little impact on the 2016 election.
There is "no evidence of a meaningful relationship" between Russia's influence campaign on Twitter and the 2016 electoral outcome.
For most aid critics, the urge to cut off Kyiv appears unconnected to any sort of principled realism, non-interventionism, or even isolationism.
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern for a live discussion of America's continued funding of Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion.
The tendency of those in power to topple or embarrass themselves by overreaching should provide a lesson to policy makers.
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While Griner's release is welcome news, it's important to remember the thousands of Americans imprisoned for drug offenses here in the U.S.
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