In Monday's edition of his biweekly column, "The Wartime Economist," Antiwar.com's David R. Henderson takes on George Shultz of the Committee on the Present Danger and the best case the War Party can make for continuing the failed "war on terror." Tough luck there,...

The key players in the U.S. Senate have agreed with the Bush administration to retroactively legalize torture by U.S. government agents. The compromise deal struck yesterday will block prosecution for CIA officials who tortured detainees since 9/11.  I would expect...

The bloodthirsty "conservative" warmongers at National Review have now all but admitted that The War on Terror will never end. This is from the September 11th issue: "Ladies and gentlemen: Our Problems are here, there, and everythere. They will last our lifetime. You...

Ann Berg surveys the history of fascism and concludes this ain't it. Jon Basil Utley explains why Americans aren't cut out for empire. Steve Vujacic ponders how far Tony Blair will go to salvage his legacy. And as always, be sure to check out our Friday regulars...

Okay, you have an extra month to write that insightful essay you know you have inside you! The Antiwar.com essay contest for middle and high school students is drawing to a close – but as this is our first such contest and we want to make sure everyone who wants to...

Brendan O'Neill has an Antiwar.com exclusive on today's page, "Hooked on a Failing," about the West's War on Drugs, that will be of interest to folks of many foreign-policy stripes.

If someone makes a practical argument for torture, are you under any intellectual obligation to respond with a practical argument against? There are plenty of those, but as Lindsay Beyerstein puts it: It's sort of like writing rape-prevention posts about how you...

The debate over who benefits from our invasion of Iraq entered a new phase with the publication of a research paper by Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, written by two prominent foreign policy scholars from the "realist" camp, John J. Mearsheimer and...

Good Lord, Hugo Chavez calls Bush the devil in his speech at the UN, and CNN's chattering doofuses are near tears. "He lifts himself up to the level of President Bush when he can talk about him in an insulting manner," according to one "analyst." (A TV "analyst" is...

There have been many indications that an attack on Iran is, if not imminent, then a near certain eventuality. There was Seymour Hersh's reporting on the development of an attack plan. And then there's this, and this. But the clincher has got to be this.   Uh oh...