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Ron Paul and Jacob Hornberger to Speak at Foreign Policy Conference in Charleston, South Carolina by Adam Dick. Ron Paul Institute

Fifteen Years Ago, America Destroyed My Country by Sinan Antoon. New York Times

Washington’s Invasion of Iraq at Fifteen by Nick Alexandrov. Counterpunch

Fifteen Years After Iraq Invasion, Torture Has a New Address by William Rivers Pitt. truth-out.org

Gina Haspel: As If Nuremberg Never Happened by Peter Van Buren. American Conservative

15-year Lawsuit Over Mysterious CIA Agent Drags as Final Files Await Release by Ed Brackett. USA Today

“CIA, Joannides, and Oswald” by Alastair Tancred. Daily Mail

Abolishing ICE Is the Radical Idea America Needs to be Talking About by Will Bunch. Philadelphia Inquirer

Immigrants Have Been Scapegoats for Both Parties When the Economy Goes South by Salvador Jimenez. Los Angeles Times

British Deer by Mike Lester. GoComics.com

Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs by Walter E. Williams. WalterEWilliams.com

The Supreme Court Will Soon Decide: Uphold The Contract Clause Or Let It Die? by George Leef. Forbes

Trump is Gutting the National Endowment for Democracy, and That’s a Good Thing by Stephen Kinzer. Boston Globe

Max Boot Resurrects the Lansdale Legend by Andrew J. Bacevich. American Conservative

Gina Haspel as CIA Director? It’s a Test of America’s Conscience. by Paul Waldman. Washington Post

I Went to Prison for Disclosing the CIA’s Torture. Gina Haspel Helped Cover It Up. by John Kiriakou. Washington Post

“Testilying” by Police: A Stubborn Problem by Joseph Goldstein. New York Times

Iraq, 15 years on: A toxic US legacy by Belen Fernandez. Middle East Eye

The Iraq Death Toll 15 Years After the US Invasion by Medea Benjamin. Counterpunch

Doesn’t Trump Know? by Steve Kelley. GoComics.com

Tariffs Are Not the Answer by Ron Paul. Ron Paul Institute

Trading Places by Sheldon Richman. Libertarian Institute

Murray Rothbard: Enemy of the State by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.. Mises Institute

Some Progressives Targeting the First Amendment, Too by A. Barton Hinkle. Reason

Inflated Threats by Danny Sjursen. Antiwar.com

The CIA and Mossad by Jefferson Morley with Delinda Hanley. Antiwar.com

Why Not Execute Alcohol and Tobacco Dealers? by Laurence M. Vance. LewRockwell.com

The War on Opioids Has Become a War on Patients by Jeffrey A. Singer. Cato Institute

Repeal the Second Amendment? by Stephen P. Halbrook. Independent Institute

Entitlements: The “Most Predictable Economic Crisis in History” by Daniel J. Mitchell. Foundation for Economic Education

The Failed War on Drugs by George P. Shultz and Pedro Aspe. New York Times

How Trump’s Death Penalty Policy Could Benefit Drug Dealers by Sabrina Rojas Weiss. Refinery 29

Trump’s Call for Death Penalty Is the Wrong Response to Drug War by Widney Brown. The Hill

After Pablo Escobar: Murder, Chaos, and the Failure of U.S. Drug Policy in Colombia by Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno with Nick Gillespie. Reason

The Pentagon Sent $500 Million Abroad for International Drug Wars. What Happened Next Is a Mystery. by Nick Turse. Nation

Baltimore Should Call Off the War on Drugs by Dan Rodricks. Baltimore Sun

Tough-on-Drugs Law May Be Too Tough for Idaho Today by Ruth Brown. Idaho Statesman

The History of America’s War On Drugs by Trevor McDonald. Beauregard Daily News

The Biggest Winners in Trump Budget: The DEA and the War on Drugs by Zachary A Siegel. In Justice Today

I Hate Trade Wars by Kevin Kallaugher. GoComics.com

Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Kill U.S. Jobs. They’ll Create the Wrong Ones. by Benjamin Powell. Fortune

Five Times US Tariffs Have Made Matters Worse by Lexi Peery. CapX

The Bill of Rights as Term of Art by Gerard N. Magliocca. Notre Dame Law Review

Will the U.S. Go to War With China Over Taiwan? (audio) by Ted Galen Carpenter with Scott Horton. The Scott Horton Show

Time for America to Declare Victory in Syria and Come Home by Doug Bandow. National Interest

When Congress Tests Authority, Military Brings Out Big Guns by Bruce Fein. American Conservative

Congress Must Take Back Its War-Making Powers by Editorial. Orange County Register

2 Out of 3 Americans Oppose Increasing U.S. Military Spending by Lawrence Wittner. History News Network

Capitalism vs. Socialism: The Bruenig-Caplan Debate by Bryan Caplan. Liberty Fund

Susceptible by Clay Jones. GoComics.com

Big Government and Big Labor Are Ill-Equipped to Handle Small Community Issues by Timothy P. Carney. Washington Examiner

Toward a Balanced Budget by John Ratcliffe and Mark Walker. Washington Times

More Meanness from Government by Richard W. Rahn. Washington Times

Profound and Destructive by Leland Yeager. Liberty

Why Does a Prominent U.S. Senator Think Killing Millions of Koreans Would Be “Worth It”? by Mehdi Hasan. The Intercept

Secret Surveillance and the Legacy of Torture Have Paralyzed the USS Cole Bombing Trial at Guantánamo by Shilpa Jindia. The Intercept

Taking a Second Look by Nate Brogin. Washington Times

4 Ways to Fix the JFK Files Mess by Rex Bradford. JFKFacts

JFK Assassination Paradoxes: A Primer for Beginners by David Mantik. Journal of Health Science & Education

The White House Is Not In a Panic! by Jerry Holbert. GoComics.com

Disaster in Red: The Human Cost and Failure of Socialism (video) by Richard M. Ebeling. Nassau Institute

Overthrow: 100 Years of U.S. Meddling and Regime Change by Stephen Kinzer with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Alternet

Washington’s Century-Long War on Russia by Mike Whitney. Unz Review

Trump’s Tariffs Are America’s Self-Blockade by Dan Hannan. Washington Examiner

Trump’s New Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum (audio) by Sheldon Richman with Scott Horton. The Scott Horton Show

Baltimore’s Failed Surveillance Regime by Dan King. American Conservative

Trump Hates the Trade Deficit. Most Economists Don’t. by Jim Tankersley. New York Times

Adam Smith on Subsidies to Exporters by Donald J. Boudreaux. Cafe Hayek

Economics, Complexity Theory, and Morality by Dave Ferguson. Blog-Spot.com

There Goes Our Tax Cut by Joe Heller. GoComics.com