Gene Healy

The images coming out of Ferguson, Mo., recently -- body-armored, camo-clad "peace officers" with sniper rifles and mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles -- have a lot of Americans wondering whether that has become a meaningless distinction. (AP Photo)

Fight against militarized police is a culture war worth having

Gene Healy · August 25, 2014 9:00 pm

Police advance after tear gas was used to disperse a crowd Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, during a protest for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer last Saturday in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Just wait until Ferguson police get federally funded drones

Gene Healy · August 18, 2014 9:00 pm

President Richard Nixon says goodbye outside the White House Friday, August 9, 1974, as he prepares to board a helicopter for a flight to nearby Andrews Air Force Base. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

Like Watergate 40 years ago, Americans can bring the presidency down to size again

Gene Healy · August 4, 2014 9:00 pm

President RonaldÃÂ Reagan's approach to Iraq was ruthless realpolitik: his administration viewed Saddam Hussein as an essential counterweight to Iranian power and backed the dictator in his bloody eight-year war with Iran.ÃÂ (AP/Bob Dougherty)

Conservatives would do well to resurrect Ronald Reagan’s Middle East policy

Gene Healy · July 28, 2014 9:00 pm

"We are exceptional in a certain way that no other nation is," Secretary of State John Kerry told U.S. embassy staffers in Vienna last week. (AP/Ronald Zak)

An exceptional America is more than just American exceptionalism

Gene Healy · July 21, 2014 9:00 pm

A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter stands guard as new equipment arrives at Kalak refinery on the outskirts of Irbil, Iraq, Monday, July 14, 2014, as Kurdish authorities are trying to help ease the fuel shortage. (AP Photo)

Why the Rand Paul-Rick Perry feud over Iraq is good for U.S. policy

Gene Healy · July 14, 2014 10:07 pm

You can consider the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria a terrorist organization, but you can also consider it a particularly murderous and oppressive state. Which is it? (AP PHoto)

First Gulf War in 1991 was America’s opening Iraq mistake

Gene Healy · June 30, 2014 5:00 pm

Al Qaeda-inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint outside Beiji refinery, some 155 miles north of Baghdad, in this file photo taken Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo, File)

The Iraq War was a bipartisan disaster

Gene Healy · June 23, 2014 9:43 pm

An Army carry team carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Spc. Justin R. Helton of Beaver, Ohio, upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Del. on Thursday, June 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is smart foreign-policy advice

Gene Healy · June 16, 2014 10:27 pm

CNN's Jake Tapper flagged a factual error in former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's new book, "Hard Choices." (AP Photo)

Who would Hillary Clinton bomb?

Gene Healy · June 10, 2014 12:34 pm

President Obama gives White House press secretary Jay Carney a hug after announcing that Carney will step down later next month, during a surprise visit to the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House press secretary: The most nonessential job in government

Gene Healy · June 2, 2014 10:02 pm

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama welcomes debate on terror war as a means of avoiding it

Gene Healy · May 27, 2014 1:17 pm