Recent Op-Eds

How Serious Are Republicans?

By Michael D. Tanner. National Review (Online). May 1, 2013.

They seem to have a lot of reasons they’re not going to cut spending.

Coming: Judgement Day for U.S. Torture Policies

By Nat Hentoff. Cato.org. May 1, 2013.

As I’ll be turning 88 in June, I’d begun to lose hope for at last witnessing in my lifetime some legal accountability for the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney-Barack Obama-CIA-national security torture policy instituted after 9/11, which continues today. …

No More Tax-Paid Presidential Pyramids

By Gene Healy. DC Examiner. April 30, 2013.

If our ex-presidents want whitewashed shrines to their legacies, they should run them without taxpayer help.

Erase the Red Line

By John Mueller. Foreign Affairs. April 30, 2013.

Why we shouldn’t care about Syria’s chemical weapons.