Worth a watch from CNN's Jake Tapper: Pretty much everything that comes out of the mouths of the Democrat and Republican talking heads is ideologically driven and devoid of substance. This also adds to my argument at Reason.com that Russia's foreign policy is...
According to a YouGov poll conducted this week, only 14 percent of Americans said the U.S. has "any responsibility" to get involved in Ukraine, and only 18 percent think the U.S. "has any responsibility to protect Ukraine if Russia were to invade" "Americans are more...
Amnesty International came out with a report last week documenting cases of abuse and killings by the Israeli army in the West Bank over the time period of January 2011 to December 2013. The report documents "the killings of 22 Palestinian civilians in the West Bank,"...
Below is a video of the talk Scott Horton and I gave at the International Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, DC this month. We were initially scheduled to give the talk together, but due to weather conditions Scott was delayed. I handle the first half of...
Writing in the Boston Globe about the U.S.-Russian jockeying in Ukraine, Stephen Kinzer has it exactly right: From the moment the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the United States has relentlessly pursued a strategy of encircling Russia, just as it has with other...
International law is suddenly very popular in Washington. President Obama responded to Russian military intervention in the Crimea by accusing Russia of a "breach of international law." Secretary of State John Kerry followed up by declaring that Russia is...
This is something Secretary of State John Kerry actually said. It is not from The Onion: "You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext." He was criticizing Russia's incursions into...
