Chris Bray

A series of executions has recently gone wrong, leaving prisoners gasping and writhing long after clean and precise lethal injections were supposed to have quietly taken their lives. In Oklahoma, convicted murderer Clayton Lockett tried to lift his head off the table where he ...

Open the book to the first page of the preface, and of course George Washington is sitting there on horseback, dreaming of his young nation and its glorious future. He’s there on the last page, too, looking down from a hillside at “this swamp along the Potomac,” boldly ...

Published August 2, 2013. In the aftermath of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympics, and the paired 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, here’s what didn’t happen: whole cities ...

Well, my goal tonight was twofold: first, to explain the changes we made in our Army in 2006; and, second, to give a speech that I’d like to think Irving Kristol might have enjoyed. —Gen. David Petraeus, May 6, 2010, speech to the American Enterprise Institute It was an ...

Cass Sunstein’s mind is a glorious reimagining-machine, reshaping everything it encounters. “Consider the question of whether people pay sufficient attention to their own futures,” he muses in his book, Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism. ...

We need to chart another axis. Americans are facing a conflict between authoritarians and counter-authoritarians, on both sides of the left-versus-right political spectrum. That conflict is usually obscured by the tiresome nature of politics that are trapped in a false ...

In November 2009, Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) declared on the floor of the House that there were 47 million Americans “without health care.” The Affordable Care Act, he said, would quickly and simply end the problem for “most of them,” providing immediate coverage for “96 ...

Owning stuff is hard, and you have to fix it if it breaks. Renting is easier. The U.S. Army currently has about 520,000 soldiers on active duty, with near-term fiscal constraints that will bring that number closer to 490,000, according to Military.com. Budget plans for 2015 ...