We’re almost certainly going to launch punitive strikes against Syria. They’ll almost certainly be ineffective.
United States helped Saddam Hussein launch some of the worst chemical attacks in history against Iran.
John Kerry’s speech was the crossing of the Rubicon for US military action in Syria.
The Sacramento Bee has released this remarkable video of President Gerald Ford testifying about the assassination attempt by Lynnette “Squeaky” Fromme.
The award-winning political science group blog The Monkey Cage is moving under the masthead of the Washington Post:
Today will be my first day at Marine Command and Staff College.
Western military action in the Syrian civil war now appears likely.
The VA created an incentive system that rewarded fast, half-assed claim processing that denied complicated requests.
Once, against Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes it clear she isn’t going anywhere.
Virginia Tech English prof Steven Salaita implores us to “Stop saying ‘support the troops.'”
Don’t expect the Federal Government to push for DUI reform.
A case out of New Mexico presents an interesting collision of First Amendment rights and anti-discrimination values.
As President Obama’s red line has been crossed more brazenly, he continues to sound reluctant to intervene in Syria while positioning forces to do just that.
Everyone knew the Fukushima disaster was bad. We likely underestimated how bad.
Walter Russell Mead explains why a well intentioned, carefully crafted and consistently pursued grand strategy failed.
Reports of the death of the Voting Rights Act have been greatly exaggerated.
Courts gave the NSA broad powers to intercept overseas communications of Americans . . . 30 years ago.
Joshua Foust and I discuss Chelsea Manning and other issues for BloggingHeadsTV.
Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn is the latest conservative to endorse the foolish idea of a Constitutional Convention.
Bradley Manning’s announcement that she wishes to begin living life as a woman poses some interesting legal questions.
A headline I never thought I’d see: “Yemen Asks U.S. For Drones To Fight Al Qaeda”
Convicted felon Bradley Manning has announced that she’d like to spend her confinement as Chelsea Manning.
The Army and Navy are finally doing something about brass bloat.
West Point graduates account for nearly one in fifty deaths in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mark Kroos plays both parts of “Dueling Banjos” on a double necked guitar
The Syrian regime may have used chemical weapons again, this time in an even larger and more deadly attack.
The Air Force can’t find enough people to volunteer to fly remote controlled planes.