War and Foreign Policy

As experience now makes clear, the War Powers Resolution did not fix the problem of presidential usurpation of Congress's war powers. 

Truman, without consent or knowledge of Congress, declared war on Korea. Congress condoned his usurpation of its exclusive constitutional power.

International trade hasn’t had a very good time lately. The outlook is bleak indeed, but it’s not the first time, nor will it be the last.

The authors of the Constitution were clear that the power to declare war was limited to Congress. It's important to understand why. 

Economic globalism — which is a wonderful thing — is something quite different from the highly suspect agenda of political globalism. 

James Bovard discusses the dismal failures of government regulation.

Liberalism, freedom, and free markets were far less important in Latin American independence movements than in the fledgling United States. 

Having failed to make an economic argument for tariffs, the White House is relying on a dubious national-defense argument instead. 

[Excerpt from Murray Rothbard, The Progressive Era, Patrick Newman, ed. (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2017), from chap. 13 “World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals,” pp. 428–36.] World War I was the apotheosis of the growing...

In explaining the flood of funding headed toward weapons contractors, one defense analyst noted that “diplomacy is out; air strikes are in."