Historian Thaddeus Russell talks to John Stossel on why progressives are some of the biggest warhawks: Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com

One of the most frequently uttered fictions coming from Syria hawks is the claim that the Assad regime has slaughtered 100,000 Syrians. As Sen. John McCain has repeatedly yelped, "The fact is Bashar Assad has massacred 100,000 people." But as Micah Zenko of the...

The Obama administration promises over and over again they are only sending arms to secular, freedom-loving Syrian rebels, not those Islamic jihadists associated with terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. If that's true, then why was it necessary for the president to...

Remember sequestration? Well, according to the mandatory cuts to the federal budget, funding for fiscal year 2014 can’t exceed $967 billion. Funny then, that House Republicans have proposed a budget of $988 billion for 2014. The reason, according to the Cato...

"Bahrain security forces routinely detain children without cause and subject them to ill-treatment that may rise to the level of torture," Human Rights Watch said in a report this week. “Rounding up kids, throwing them in jail and beating and threatening them is no...

The just announced U.S.-Russia agreement in Geneva on a “joint determination to ensure the destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons (CW) program in the soonest and safest manner” sounds the death knell to an attempt by Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia to get the U.S....

Nicholas Kristof responds to Justin Raimondo (at 01:15):

Over at Foreign Policy, Will Marshall laments the fact that America's position of "global leader" is being "strained" by a GOP that is "increasingly in thrall to libertarian ideas." If only this renewed skepticism towards unwarranted, unpopular, and illegal wars - he...