One of Mitt Romney’s own supporters didn’t like his foreign policy speech very much.
Mitt Romney is a deeply flawed candidate, but that doesn’t mean the President is any better.
Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”
Hey GOP, Lt. Sulu has some questions for you.
After three days of buildup to a “mystery speaker,” the closing night of the Republican convention featured a rambling performance by Clint Eastwood and an empty chair.
The GOP claims to be a party that favors limited government, but its foreign policy positions reveal this to be little more than a lie.
President Obama’s immigration policy shift is legal, it’s good policy, but bypassing Congress won’t solve our immigration problems.
You have Martin Luther King’s statue in your office, but you are sending these unmanned drones out, and bombs are dropping on innocent people.
Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.
We’re literally choosing locking up drug offenders over investing in our children.
A legal dispute exposes an open wound.
Not surprisingly, most of the Republican candidates for President aren’t too keen on reducing the excessive growth in Executive Branch power.
Understanding the state of the GOP field requires recognizing that President Obama is actually pretty moderate.
Iowa Republicans fear that a Ron Paul win on Jan. 3rd will destroy the credibility of their caucuses.
Newt Gingrich’s foreign policy vision leaves much to be desired.
The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.
Last night, Herman Cain established that he simply isn’t prepared to be Commander in Chief.
Huntsman will gain little if any traction and none of the frontrunners really helped or hurt themselves.
Where should we look to understand the failings of the government?
Judging them by their own manifesto, the Occupy Wall Street protesters are pretty silly people.
Giving the President the unchecked power to kill American citizens raises some serious red flags.
College students finally seem to be listening to the market.
The last two GOP debates have featured cheers from the crowd and responses from candidates that ought to be considered problematic.
Dick Cheney’s long-awaited book’s out and he promises lots of bombshells that will have heads exploding in DC.
Danger Room’s Spencer Ackerman reports on an alleged secret CIA interrogation facility somewhere in the former Soviet Union.
Contrary to what Senator McCain, seeking realism in military policy does not make one an isolationist.
A system designed to protect the innocent has instead become a menagerie to imprison them. A legal code designed to proscribe specific behavior has instead become a vast, vague, and unpredictable invitation to selective enforcement.
Marc Thiessen claims Khalid Sheikh Mohammad mocked the CIA interrogators who waterboarded him.
John McCain thoroughly dismantles the argument that Osama bin Laden’s capture vindicates the use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
Elias Isquith proclaims my Atlantic essay “How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology” to be “a total disaster.”
The defense of torture as an extreme measure for extraordinary circumstances has evolved.tortu
The debate over “enhanced interrogations” has been renewed by the bin Laden mission, but whether it “worked” or not isn’t the question.
There are many opportunities to go to war. Here’s a guide for choosing between them.
In just over a decade, America has gone from a bipartisan consensus that torture and brutality are bad to a bipartisan consensus that they’re necessary.
The saga of accused Wikileaks conspirator Bradley Manning continues to get uglier, with the military acknowledging that he was forced to spend the day naked for, well, no apparent reason.
While the prestige outlets of the halcyon days of the last millennium still hold some cachet for those of us old enough to remember that era, they mean next to nothing on the Web.
President Obama’s decision to decline to defend Section Three of the Defense Of Marriage Act on appeal was a proper and appropriate exercise of his authority as President Of The United States.
The Egyptian military is promising a quick transition to new civilian leadership. Will they live up to their promise?