It’s been a long 22 months since the first of thousands of classified government documents became public in what has turned into a drumbeat...   Read More

Pardon my cynicism, but the “war on terror” (aka “war on violent extremism”) is reminding me more and more of the disastrous U.S. “war...   Read More

If there was ever any doubt in your mind about the shared DNA between the War on Drugs and the War on Terror, consider...   Read More

The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration defended herself on Tuesday against charges by skeptical members of Congress that the DEA dealt overly lax...   Read More

A recently published report has revealed that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq was responsible for the deaths of approximately 1 million Iraqis,...   Read More

April 15 is the day each year when Americans are most likely to slander Washington. Unfortunately, the city’s nebulous nomenclature deters citizens from recognizing...   Read More

There are an estimated 4,500 federal criminal statutes — and innumerable regulations backed by criminal penalties that include incarceration. Even if none of these...   Read More

Want to see how secrecy is corrosive to democracy? Look no further than a series of explosive investigations by various news organizations this week...   Read More

“Let’s recap the state of America’s commitments in the Middle East,” suggests Ross Douthat in his Saturday column at The New York Times: Our...   Read More

…Needless and counterproductive as many administrative regulations are, the preliminary question should be whether the politicians and bureaucrats really have any legal authority to...   Read More