Brian Williams Helped Pave the Way to War
Of course so-called news people shouldn’t make up stuff to look good, but there’s something much worse: uncritically passing along official lies intended...
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Two Kinds of Income Inequality
Income inequality is back in the news, propelled by an Oxfam International report and President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. The...
Stop Those Who Would Stop Uber
What is the world coming to when any company can come to a city and arrogantly do business without asking permission, in essence,...
Obama Still Does a Good Imitation of Bush
After almost six years in office, President Obama is far more like George W. Bush in national-security matters than he led the American people...
Abolish the Income Tax and IRS
The IRS seizes bank accounts of people whose only offense is routinely to make deposits of less than $10,000. If you do this...
The Politicians Are Scaring You Again
They are doing it again. “They” are the war-party politicians, Democrats and Republicans. “It” is scaring you into supporting another war in the...
Will American Ground Troops Be Sent to Fight ISIS?
With the United States dropping bombs on yet another Muslim country, we might benefit from a close look at President Obama’s anti–Islamic State...
Obama Follows Bush’s Iraq Playbook
U.S. politicians are exploiting the gruesome beheadings of two American journalists to whip up war fever against ISIS, the “criminal gang” masquerading as...
Mission Creep in Iraq
There are several reasons not to intervene militarily in another country’s conflict, even modestly. One is the potential for mission creep. ...
Out of Iraq, Etc.!
The rise of the brutal Islamic State, with its unspeakable violence against innocents, is an appalling but unsurprising outcome of the last 100...
In Foreign Affairs, Not Doing Anything Is the Thing to Do
The heartbreaking violence in the Middle East, Ukraine, and elsewhere carries many messages, but here’s one Americans shouldn’t miss: The United States —...
Borderlands: What’s Happening to America?
The U.S. government regards a large part of the country as close enough to a border or coast to justify treating individuals —...
The Noninterventionists Told You So
Those who opposed the George W. Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq in March 2003 — not to mention his father’s war on Iraq...
News Coverage Misinforms Americans on the Bergdahl Swap
In national-security matters, the news media couldn’t do a better job misinforming the public if they tried. The latest example is their portrayal...
Did Team Obama Blunder or Conspire in Ukraine?
While no one ever lost money overestimating the capacity of the U.S. government to blunder, we cannot rule out that American officials knew...