War and Presidential Greatness

Economist and Antiwar.com contributor David Henderson and co-author Zachary Gochenour have written a paper on the correlation between the popularity of a president and the number of people they've killed. Here is the abstract: Historians and journalists commonly...

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The Spectacle of Fearsome Acts

The feeling that a U.S./Israeli strike on Iran is inescapably imminent has waxed and waned over the last few months. As soon as the feeling of impending war begins to dissipate, hawks in Washington and Tel Aviv step up the warnings of preemptive strike. They will...

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‘They beat us until they got tired…’

Brian Dooley, of Human Rights First, on Bahrain: They said they had been severely beaten by the police in the previous two days. "They beat us until they got tired, then other policemen would take over and beat us more," said one boy. Such beatings have become...

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Military Aid to Egypt Preserved for Rent-Seekers

The questions of whether or not to continue sending military aid to Egypt briefly occupied the power centers in Washington last week. Some in the Senate argued it isn't good to aid undemocratic regimes who harm their own people. And then it was remembered that such...

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The Folly of Soldier Worship

State doctrine holds that soldiers are intrinsically honorable. It is a conviction held by most of the public that those who wear a military uniform are to receive automatic society-wide praise for their service, irrespective of who they are or what they've done. If...

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