No, the U.S. Shouldn't Wage War Against Mexican Cartels
There's little reason to believe that any of the tactics Republican politicians are proposing would be effective in keeping fentanyl out of the country.
There's little reason to believe that any of the tactics Republican politicians are proposing would be effective in keeping fentanyl out of the country.
Kevin McCarthy's pick to lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee evades any post-Trump humbleness in foreign policy.
The Human Rights Foundation is mobilizing a global band of activists to fight authoritarianism in China, Iran, Russia, and beyond.
What Joe Rogan and Canadian truckers tell us about free speech.
Antiwar.com's Scott Horton takes on The Weekly Standard's founding editor, Bill Kristol
A leading proponent of the invasion of Iraq vs. the editorial director of Antiwar.com.
Historian Stephen Wertheim says two decades of failed wars have finally made America more likely to embrace military restraint.
"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.
The foreign policy author and podcast host discusses Joe Biden's withdrawal and how to fix U.S. foreign policy.
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Samuel Cummings built a global weapons empire in Washington, D.C.'s shadow.
Our own house is not in order, and Washington has no business policing the world or forcibly remaking other countries in its own image.
Trump brought chaos to a region already on the brink, and the unintended consequences of his actions will reverberate for years to come.
Nothing in U.S. history suggests that ordinary Americans are isolationists—but nothing suggests they've embraced international adventurism either.
For some, Trump’s troop drawdowns are too fast and too much. In reality, they’re too little and way too late.
The documentary Coup 53 explores how a seemingly easy regime change wrecked U.S. foreign policy for decades.
We should reduce the number of troops anyway.
Washington's dangerous reliance on military intervention does not serve American interests, increase our security, or put us on a path to peace.
A humble and prudent foreign policy begins with recognizing the fog of war—and rejecting the dangerous paths of obedient belief and premature omniscience.
Despite a change in administrations, U.S. foreign policy in the 2010s stayed its wasteful, destructive course.
She's not a libertarian, but Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is shaking up the race for the Democratic nomination.
America's exit from Iraq could benefit both Iraqis and Americans.
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The Reason Roundtable panelists ask: Why so many hawks in the anti-Trump clump?
Promoters and detractors alike are not thinking through how unlikely it would be for Gabbard to seek and win the Green Party nomination, let alone come anywhere close to Jill Stein's totals from 2016.
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Washington's priority should be ending America's role in this fight.
Welcome to 21st-century politics (finally) with creation of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
Non-interventionists should be deeply concerned by the escalating tensions between the two countries.
Trump administration officials discuss plans to deploy 120,000 troops to the Middle East amidst rising tensions in the Persian Gulf.
There is no military solution to be had. It's time to simply come home.
O'Rourke has long been a critic of U.S. intervention abroad.
The push for intervention is no surprise, and it should be given no quarter.
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In Mercenaries 2, China and the U.S. fight over pieces of Venezuela, before the entire country is wrecked by a nuclear warhead.
"Does the USA want to be the Policeman of the Middle East?" the president asks-and gets a resounding yes from Republicans and Democrats.
The late Arizona senator's relentless energy and patriotic sense of honor led him to heroic acts of defiance, but also misguided support for disastrous foreign interventions.
The cautious prudence the U.S. desperately needed after a decade and a half of shoot-from-the-hip interventionism has been relegated to a talking point.
In the Arizona senator's waning days, it's an open question whether his familiar vision of a robustly interventionist America idealistically leading the international trading order will survive in Donald Trump's GOP.
Pompeo's past support for regime change, and his current refusal to disavow the idea, disqualify him for the position of America's top diplomat.
Let's look back at our nation's questionable adventures in the Middle East.
Withdrawal and diplomacy is the most prudent path forward in Syria. Not military escalation.
The way to achieve peace is not to prepare for war but to reject militarism and empire, and embrace nonintervention.
A report says the Trump administration is on the verge of sending arms to Ukraine. That's a terrible idea.
Honor the dead by taking service members out of harm's way.
Yes, the president is erratic and incompetent. But prominent GOPers like John McCain have been saying crazy things about North Korea and elsewhere for a quarter century