Jacob Heilbrunn, editor of The National Interest, spoke with Chicago University professor and renowned international relations theorist John Mearsheimer about the apparent shifts in attitudes in both the country and in Washington on foreign policy issues: I would...
In last night's State of the Union speech, President Obama put the spotlight on one of his invited guests, Army Ranger Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg, a severely wounded veteran who was nearly killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Here's Reason's Nick Gillespie in...
The Obama administration seems to have made a decision long ago on how to deal with Egypt's rocky, post-Mubarak transition; namely to keep it subtle and in the background. Washington intends to remain a player in Egypt's strategic position, but as far as the domestic...
Despite my harsh criticisms of the Obama administration's policies towards the Asia-Pacific, I'm of the opinion that an actual shooting war between the U.S. and China is very unlikely for the foreseeable future. Like the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War,...
One of the hard truths about Washington is that Congress recklessly wastes billions of taxpayer dollars on weapons programs that the Pentagon says it doesn't want or need. Congress does this to avoid the slight uptick in unemployment in their districts that might...
Pro-Israel commentators have been known to downplay the importance of the Israel lobby here in the U.S. "The lobby" is not as influential, coordinated, sneaky, or nefarious as many of its critics maintain, they insist, while often making accusations of conspiratorial...
An editorial in yesterday's Washington Post urges President Obama to use the threat of a U.S. bombing campaign to achieve political ends on a transition deal in the Syria talks. Obama "could force" a diplomatic agreement for a transition government in Syria "by...
The NSA's bulk collection of every American's telephone call records is illegal, according to the federal government's independent review panel, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. The NSA's interprets Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which permits the...
The Geneva II talks on the Syrian civil war in Switzerland started today. In the lead up to the conference, the media focus, unfortunately, had been on which parts of the Syrian opposition would attend and whether or not Iran, the Assad regime's close ally, would...
Today at Al Jazeera America I argue that the U.S. should stop occupying South Korea, not only because they don't belong there but because the highly militarized alliance between the U.S. and South Korea doesn't actually weaken North Korea, but helps sustain the regime...
