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The White House's 'Feverish Dream' About $50 Million for Condoms in Gaza

The White House's 'Feverish Dream' About $50 Million for Condoms in Gaza
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Trump Revives Biden's Failed Proposal To Remove Palestinians From Gaza

Trump Revives Biden's Failed Proposal To Remove Palestinians From Gaza
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Neocons Wage a Rearguard Action Against Trump's Middle East Peace Drive

Neocons Wage a Rearguard Action Against Trump's Middle East Peace Drive
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Donald Trump Turns on His First Term's Middle East Hawks

Donald Trump Turns on His First Term's Middle East Hawks
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Trump Goes After Mexico by Designating Drug Cartels Terrorist Organizations

Trump Goes After Mexico by Designating Drug Cartels Terrorist Organizations
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Nobody Won the War in Gaza

Nobody Won the War in Gaza
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Here's How Police Are Being Trained To Deal With Incels

Here's How Police Are Being Trained To Deal With Incels
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The Pentagon Keeps Losing Equipment and Buying Stuff It Doesn't Need

The Pentagon Keeps Losing Equipment and Buying Stuff It Doesn't Need
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America's Arctic Troops in Greenland Go To Diversity Training

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Was the Las Vegas Bombing a Case of the Afghan War Coming Home?

War on Terror Matthew Petti | 1.6.2025 4:37 PM Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger was clearly shaken by what he saw in Afghanistan. In the last...

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Is Biden Teeing Up an Iran War for Trump?

War Matthew Petti | 1.3.2025 11:55 AM President Joe Biden has less than a month in office, but that might be enough time to leave a very big mess...

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Congress Sanctions a Syrian Government That No Longer Exists

Syria Matthew Petti | 12.26.2024 3:23 PM If a government falls in the world, but Congress isn't around to hear it, did it really fall? Apparently...

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How FOIA Gave Rise to Government Transparency Laws Around the World

Transparency Matthew Petti | From the January 2025 issue It's well-known that the government heavily censors documents before declassifying them—...

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Police Data: N.J. Drone Sightings Concentrated Along Airport Flight Paths

UFO Matthew Petti | 12.20.2024 1:53 PM It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a UFO! It's an Iranian mothership! It's a radiation probe! Or maybe it's...

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We Don't Need Terrorism Laws When Murder Is Already Illegal

Terrorism Matthew Petti | 12.19.2024 5:30 PM New York state prosecutors announced on Tuesday that they were charging Luigi Mangione, the alleged...

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CNN Presented a Syrian Jailer as a Torture Survivor

Media Criticism Matthew Petti | 12.17.2024 10:36 AM The most heartbreaking story out of the Syrian revolution last week was the opening of the...

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Biden's Transformation From a Dove to a Hawk

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | From the January 2025 issue In the January 2025 issue of Reason, we're giving performance reviews of Joe Biden's...

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The War in Gaza Is Far Worse Than You Thought

War Matthew Petti | 12.13.2024 11:57 AM How many people in Gaza have been killed by the Israel-Hamas war? For a long time, the only source of...

13.12.2024 6

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No, an Iranian 'Mothership' Isn't Attacking New Jersey With UFOs

New Jersey Matthew Petti | 12.12.2024 3:50 PM Something weird is going on in New Jersey, and it's not just the swamp gas . Residents across the...

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Syria's Rojava Revolution Is in Grave Danger

Syria Matthew Petti | 12.11.2024 10:45 AM Kobane, Syria, was home to one of the most famous military turning points in history. A small force of...

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What's Left For the U.S. To Do in Syria?

Syria Matthew Petti | 12.9.2024 4:32 PM The Assad dynasty has fallen. After 54 years of Assad family rule, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad quietly...

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Outlaws on Pickup Trucks Accomplish What $1 Billion in CIA Money Couldn't

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 12.6.2024 9:59 AM Operation Timber Sycamore was perhaps the most expensive covert operation since the Cold War...

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Trump Appointees Kash Patel and Massad Boulos Are Not Neocons

National Security Matthew Petti | 12.4.2024 10:30 AM President-elect Donald Trump's first few national security staffing picks were neocon...

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South Korea Avoids a Return to the Bad Old Days

South Korea Matthew Petti | 12.3.2024 3:56 PM North Korea is a dictatorship, and South Korea is a democracy. That's one of the most basic pieces of...

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If You Want Mass Deportations, You Can't Have Less Government

Immigration Matthew Petti | 11.26.2024 5:15 PM Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have one job: to cut the size of government. President-elect Donald...

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Review: A True Crime Podcast About a Massacre in Iraq

War Matthew Petti | From the December 2024 issue The third season of  In the Dark , a true crime podcast from The New Yorker, digs up a murder case...

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Lindsey Graham's Bipartisan Vision To Keep America In the Middle East Forever

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 11.21.2024 10:09 AM The vote before the Senate on Wednesday was simple : Should the United States give Israel another...

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Will America Make the Same Mistakes as Britain in the Middle East?

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 11.18.2024 2:30 PM The Middle East is a problem. Our enemies there are on the march, and our friends are nervous. We...

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Map: Pearl Clutchers in Hot Spring County

Maps Matthew Petti | From the December 2024 issue Is the film Night of the Living Dead too racy for daytime television? What about double entendres...

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Meet Trump's Incredibly Confusing New National Security Cabinet

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 11.15.2024 9:53 AM If President-elect Donald Trump gets his way, his National Security Council will be a very lively...

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Biden Admin Stops Telling Americans Which Foreigners They Can Debate

Sanctions Matthew Petti | 11.13.2024 10:18 AM Can the U.S. government use counterterrorism as an excuse to stop Americans from talking to...

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Trump's Reported National Security Advisor Supports Bombing Russia and Afghanistan

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 11.12.2024 10:02 AM So much for keeping out the war hawks. President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly chosen Rep....

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The Classic Neocons Are Out, but They Might Still Get What They Want

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 11.11.2024 10:47 AM Last week was not a good week to be an old-fashioned neoconservative. At least some Democrats...

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In Michigan, the CIA Beat the FBI

Election 2024 Matthew Petti | 11.6.2024 4:45 PM Whichever way the elections in Michigan swung, the intelligence community would have gained a new...

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Democratic Hubris Blows Up in Michigan

Michigan Matthew Petti | 11.6.2024 9:45 AM Perhaps Vice President Kamala Harris thought she could take Michigan's Middle Eastern communities for...

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Who Are Langley's Favorite Candidates?

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 11.1.2024 11:53 AM ZIP code 22101 is home to a lot of very powerful people. For one, it encompasses Langley,...

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Pentagon Paid Nearly 8,000 Percent Markup on Boeing's Bathroom Soap Dispenser

Government Spending Matthew Petti | 10.30.2024 12:19 PM The bathroom on the C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane is nothing special. The soap...

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Can the U.S. Government Tell Chinese People Apart?

Sanctions Matthew Petti | 10.28.2024 3:13 PM Zheng Wei is a fairly common Chinese name. A tennis player , a movie director , an archaeologist , and...

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Are Books and Brains Weapons? The U.S. Government Thinks So.

Government abuse Matthew Petti | From the November 2024 issue Oleg Tishchenko logged onto the Digital Combat Simulator fan forum in 2011 and posted...

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The Panic Over an Imaginary Militia 'Hunting FEMA' Did More Damage Than the Actual Threat

Panic Matthew Petti | 10.25.2024 10:00 AM It was a bone-chilling report. As North Carolinians reeled from the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the...

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Review: A Rap Trio Fights the Power In Gaelic

Movies Matthew Petti | From the November 2024 issue Belfast rapper Móglaí Bap was baptized under the searchlight of a British military helicopter....

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If You're Worried About Fascism, Worry About War

War Matthew Petti | 10.24.2024 10:30 AM There's another controversy about whether former President Donald Trump praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in...

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Biden and Graham Reportedly Schemed On How 'To Go to War For Saudi Arabia'

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 10.18.2024 12:00 PM Democrats and Republicans can't agree on much. But when it comes to sending Americans to war,...

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The Congressmen Who Stopped Caring About War Powers After Trump Left Office

War Powers Matthew Petti | 10.16.2024 5:00 PM The only times Congress has ever invoked the War Powers Act to stop a war were when Donald Trump was...

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Biden Pulls America Even Deeper Into the Middle East

Foreign Policy Matthew Petti | 10.14.2024 10:14 AM The conventional wisdom for the past few decades has been that Saudi Arabia needs direct U.S....

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A Year of War in the Middle East Cost Americans Nearly $23 Billion

Foreign Aid Matthew Petti | 10.8.2024 9:53 AM War is not cheap, especially not the past year of Middle Eastern wars. While Israelis, Palestinians,...

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The 'Day of Jihad' That Never Came

War on Terror Matthew Petti | 10.7.2024 8:00 AM Illinois man Joseph Czuba believed he was ready for the apocalypse. He had been convinced by his...

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U.S.-Funded Armies Fight Each Other In Lebanon

Foreign Aid Matthew Petti | 10.3.2024 1:30 PM It's a story that has happened before in the Middle East: an army with American weapons shot at...

03.10.2024 10

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Walz and Vance Dodge the Question on Bombing Iran

Election 2024 Matthew Petti | 10.1.2024 10:56 PM The vice presidential debate on Tuesday night opened with a question that might as well have been...

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Did the Abraham Accords Pave the Way for Total War?

Middle East Matthew Petti | 9.30.2024 4:05 PM The Abraham Accords, the U.S.-sponsored alliance between Israel and several Arab states, were...

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