Dr. Rand Paul’s Op-Eds

If you've read one of my Waste Reports, you know how much I hate when government carelessly spends your hard-earned tax dollars.With a skyrocketing debt surpassing $21 trillion, our leaders have to be more responsible with prioritizing our limited money to address our...

In September of 2014, I had these words to say: "The president acts like he's a king. He ignores the Constitution. He arrogantly says, 'If Congress will not act, then I must.'Donald J. Trump agreed with me when he said in November 2014 that President Barack Obama...

After a heated and divisive midterm campaign season, now is the perfect time to work together on an issue that has real bipartisan support: immediately stop future arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The horrendous murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and the attempted...

It's time to rethink America's relationship with the Saudi Kingdom.It is no surprise to most Americans that we help arm, train, equip and otherwise prop up the government of Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have long bought and paid for many politicians and for an image of...

By now you've seen the headlines: An American resident, a Saudi Arabian journalist who wrote for The Washington Post, has gone missing abroad and is presumed dead. Jamal Khashoggi was last seen walking into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and Turkish security...

"Made in America" has meant a lot of things over the years, and it can mean different things depending on your perspective. Unfortunately, if you live in Yemen, you are the latest in a long line of places for whom that phrase means war, weapons and destruction.One of...

On my recent trip to Russia, I spent an hour with Mikhail Gorbachev. I told him that in the West we are grateful that he and President Ronald Reagan defied Cold War orthodoxy to significantly reduce our countries' nuclear arms. And I asked him whether there was a...

If you had five minutes to speak before the secretary of Defense, what would you say?At this point, I'm sure, if Gen. James Mattis is reading this, he is probably muttering to himself: "Here we go again."You see, every time I run into the secretary of Defense, I try...

Clear evidence concerning the bias of multiple, high-ranking current and former intelligence community officials should make us think twice about letting retired intelligence officials keep access to classified information, especially if they become talking heads on...

Whether or not to expand NATO is a question that deserves debate. Would it help or hurt U.S. national security?Does adding countries such as Albania and Montenegro increase our security or ensnare us in possible regional disputes? Are we willing to risk war with...