International Criminal Court Issues War Crimes Arrest Warrant Against Vladimir Putin
The charge is the crime of illegal kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian children.
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.
Plus: the editors field a listener question on intellectual property.
Plus: The National Endowment for Democracy ends funding of conservative media blacklist, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear major internet free speech case, and more...
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.
Plus: The editors briefly celebrate a noteworthy shake-up in the Senate.
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.
Such mistreatment is both unjust in itself and harmful to US economic and foreign policy interests.
The Pentagon is seeking to corroborate those reports.
"People die from hard physical labor and inability to access medical treatment that they need," said one former inmate.
Privatization can free orbital innovation from ground-bound politics.
Accountability, diplomacy, and planning are essential for preventing a forever proxy war.
Journalists who sound the alarm about Russian propaganda are unfazed by the lack of evidence that it has a meaningful impact.
Antiwar.com's Scott Horton and former Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis warn about the grave danger of escalating the war in Ukraine
I have long advocated using May 1 for this purpose. But November 7 is a worthy alternative candidate, which I am happy to adopt if it can attract a broad consensus.
Progressives shouldn't be ashamed of being anti-war.
The WNBA player's nine-year sentence was upheld on Tuesday, paving the way for her transfer to a Russian penal colony.
Plus: Bite mark analysis is a sham, tax code adjusted for inflation, and more...
The Network State author and serial entrepreneur on the future of freedom, online and offline.
The Network State author and serial entrepreneur on the future of freedom, online and offline.
Politicians have turned the unthinkable into a real threat for which you should prepare.
Tracer takes mind control to a new level.
A conversation with the author of Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All about what the war in Ukraine means for the push for renewables.
Washington Post columnist Keith Richburg explains how foot voting patterns are a strong indicator of the relative appeal of governments.
Plus: Musk's Twitter purchase may be back on, global deflation may be looming, and more...
Vladimir Putin's annexation plan is indefensible on both legal and moral grounds. Some of the reasons why have broader implications for normative theories of secession and self-determination.
Plus: Gov. Ron DeSantis gets accused of fair-weather fiscal responsibility, warrantless drone searches might be illegal, and Lizzo's flute playing sparks a fake controversy.
Several countries are rejecting Russians fleeing forced military service. But offering them refuge would help protect dissidents and deprive Putin of critical manpower.
Plus: The editors engage in a full-throated denunciation of the CIA in response to a listener question.
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