The first and most important thing to say about James Gunn’s Superman is that there’s a really cute superdog, Krypto. Like Superman himself, he’s fundamentally good at heart, but sometimes struggles to behave. What if your loveable-but-not-particularly-well-trained pooch had super strength and the ability to fly? It’s cute. If you like the idea of a […]
President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law on July 4. The 870-page spending legislation directs $157 billion to the already-bloated military-industrial complex. The following are a few of the most egregious examples of wasteful defense spending in the OBBBA.  1. Over $5 Billion for Shipbuilding The OBBBA appropriates […]
When President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) against alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in March, he implicitly asserted that they were “natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects” of a “foreign nation or government” that had launched an “invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States.” But […]
The Trump administration deployed National Guard soldiers to assist the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and other federal law enforcement agencies during a large-scale marijuana raid last week in a stunning example of drug war mission creep. The Los Angeles Times reported that about 315 National Guard troops assisted the DEA during a June 18 raid […]
President Donald Trump expressed what every observer of the Middle East had been feeling on Tuesday morning. “I’m not happy with [Israel]. I’m not happy with Iran, either,” he told reporters on the White House lawn. “We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what […]
Don’t worry, guys: Iran’s gotten all the “Death to Israel”https://reason.com/”Death to America” out of their system. Or so President Donald Trump contends. Iran attacked a U.S. military base in Qatar on Monday; there were no casualties, and sources tell American outlets that both the Americans and the Qataris were notified ahead of time that the […]
When U.S. bombers attacked three Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday, the Iranian government downplayed the damage. And Iran’s response was a piece of kayfabe. Iranian missile forces launched 14 missiles, the same number of bunker-buster bombs dropped on Iran, at Qatar’s Al Udeid Air Base, the largest U.S. base in the Middle East. The Iranian […]
We’re not at war with Iran. We’re merely bombing the country. Iran’s nuclear program has been effectively destroyed. We will keep bombing the country if it doesn’t give up its nuclear program. We seek peace and diplomacy with Iran. We might have to overthrow Iran’s government if it doesn’t do exactly as we say or […]
Hours after the U.S. bombed several sites in Iran, President Donald Trump called the operation a “spectacular military success.” Whether or not that turns out to be true, the attack looks rather different as a legal matter. Trump appears to have significantly overstepped his authority, as the attack was not authorized by Congress and was […]
California National Guard members in Los Angeles. (Apex/Mega/DFBEV/Newscom)  Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision overturning a trial court ruling that had invalidated President Trump’s federalization of 4000 troops of the California National Guard. The Ninth Circuit gets several important issues right, but ends up getting the bottom line […]
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