The conflict with Iran is the latest in a decadeslong series of regime change operations, long-term entanglements, and all-out wars that always seem to invite more problems.
Architecture and ambition collide in Brady Corbet's post-war epic.
It's a story about vulnerable people, powerless against the rise of a sweeping authoritarian regime, each seeking a way to cope with the unprecedented times in which they live.
The Republican senator wants to bring Biden and Trump together to commit American lives to Saudi Arabia in order to "change the region and change the world."
WWII correspondent William L. Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich comes to life in this Netflix docuseries.
The most serious danger is the one that historically allowed dictators to take power.
The U.S. has successfully navigated past debt challenges, notably in the 1990s. Policymakers can fix this if they find the will to do so.
David Beito discusses his new book The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance.
There are many pervasive myths about the U.S. tax code. Here are a few.
Reason has obtained an exclusive copy of Henry Kissinger's immigration files from the 1940s.
Instead of indulging in politically risky sedition prosecutions of the black press, the government relied on indirect methods of behind-the-scenes manipulation and intimidation.
To fight the King of the Monsters, private citizens must band together.
A magical, mysterious deeply personal movie about creation and legacy. And also, murder parrots.
The book blames foreign subversives for ideas long rooted in American life.
The country's current struggles show the problems of the Beijing way—and make the case for freedom.
It's a portrait of a complex man, and a warning about the nuclear era he created.
"Christian libertarians" Bayard Rustin and David Dellinger challenged state power and ended up leading the civil rights movement and anti-Vietnam War protests.
In 10 years, the programs' funds will be insolvent. Over the next 30 years, they will run a $116 trillion shortfall.
Many Democrats and Republicans were outraged when Trump and Biden respectively were found with classified documents. But both sides are missing the point.
War by Other Means tells the story of those conscientious objectors who did not cooperate with the government's alternative-service schemes.
Newspapers deserve a great deal of credit for the expansion of freedom over the past 200 years. But the media have lost credibility.
A new PBS series underscores the long, deadly shadow cast by xenophobia, antisemitism, and restrictive immigration laws.
A new PBS series by Ken Burns argues xenophobia, the Great Depression, incredulity toward the media, and State Department antisemitism combined to keep Jewish refugees out of America.
The idea would benefit central planners and grow the ranks of bureaucrats while making the poor even poorer.
A grim sign of the bureaucratic mentality controlling public education
"You don’t get to lose a war and expect the result to look like you won it," says the author of Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.
Americans distract themselves with freak-show headlines while political institutions escape their control.
The U.S. has an interest in protecting its political system from manipulation by foreign enemies or their paid agents. But treason and espionage are already illegal, as is bribery.
Let's replace the names of Confederate figures with those of patriots who upheld America's ideals.
A history lesson for Americans
The Green New Deal is a path to a more militarized and authoritarian society.
Journalists have long been used by governments, wittingly or not, to collect intel and spread disinformation.
Under a little-known regulation that dates back to the 1930s, the president has legal power over electronic transmissions.
"The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don't address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?"
The future 1984 scribe debated pacifism with Dr. Alex Comfort in 1942.
The 1944 ruling validated FDR's order to relocate and imprison 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants during World War II.
Things are not more serious than they were in Britain in 1940.
CPAC panel underdelivers.
The story of a small German cottage built by Jews, seized by Nazis, gifted to a Stasi informant, and taken over by punk rockers
The legacy of the German and Japanese prisoners held hostage
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