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Americans have grown accustomed to broken promises from politicians. And yet, some lapses are so striking that they can muster indignation from even the most jaded political observer. Case in point: President Obama’s personal assurances to 9/11 family members—on two separate occasions—that he...

When the government offers Americans a promise of security in exchange for abandoning Constitutional rights, the human brain is wired in a way that leads most people to make a wildly errant calculation about risk and reward: This is Your Brain on Terrorism "Edward Snowden’s revelations about...

In Libya, Obama felt the approval of the Arab League and NATO sufficed. Not even giving Congress a token consultation, he was brazen enough to declare that "merely" dropping bombs on people wasn't waging war.

Thanks for posting this...this is probably the most divisive issue among libertarians and I've been wondering where people fell along this continuum.

Watching the floor debate, it was incredibly frustrating to hear NSA defenders talk about Congressional oversight when, in the course of performing it, they're lied to by Clapper and others. Likewise irritating to hear them point to the FISA court as a check on the process, when it's clearly a...