Dr. Rand Paul’s Op-Eds

The proponents of antitrust laws are famously zealous in their desire to eradicate "the curse of bigness." To them, big is always bad. Except, of course, when it comes to the size and scope of government.  These antitrust activists tried to rush legislation through...

Halfway across the world, we watch as protestors take to the streets in China, rebelling against the draconian mandates and lockdowns that are sweeping their country once again. We cheer and hope they will prevail, but we also know our so-called leaders did a lot of...

On April 10, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), which for over four decades has successfully deterred China from invading Taiwan through our employment of "strategic ambiguity."Under strategic ambiguity, the United States is not...

Last year, while considering semiconductor subsidy legislation, the Senate unanimously adopted my amendment to prevent taxpayer dollars from being used to finance gain-of-function research conducted in China.Last week, rather than allowing the conference committee to...

In physics, Newton's third law tells us that to every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. In diplomacy, however, sometimes reactions are disproportionate, or even irrational.The art of diplomacy is trying to read the mind of one's adversary and predict...

No one is angrier at YouTube than I am. When I used that platform to educate the public on the potentially deadly consequences of relying on ineffective cloth masks to prevent transmission of COVID-19, YouTube took my video down and suspended my ability to upload...

"1984" had its Ministry of Truth, the Soviets had their Gulag. Today's Russians, like their kindred spirits among the American left, may be less overt in policing speech but don't let a less visible barbarity fool anyone into believing that the goal is any less of an...

Last week, the Senate voted on the 2,741-page omnibus spending package, clocking in at a whopping $1.5 trillion. It was released in the middle of the night, just hours before we were expected to vote on it.Mind you, when we vote on things, we're expected to know what...

In light of the recent $1.5 trillion spending package - that was released in the dead of night, mere hours before a vote took place - I'm renewing my call for Congress to do the bare minimum and read the very bills they are voting on.Do you think there is a single...

This past December, Kentucky endured a series of tornadoes that proved to be the deadliest storms in the Commonwealth's history. I was at home in Bowling Green at the time, as 155+ mph winds whipped through the city and leveled full blocks. The next day I surveyed the...

Most of us who believe in a foreign policy of restraint know John Quincy Adams' advice by heart:[America] . . . goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of...

This week marks the two-year anniversary of the COVID lockdowns. I join the American people in mourning the lives lost to this virus. I also mourn those we lost to the crushing and overbearing lockdowns and mandates that were based on junk science. The toll of COVID...

We are now over two years into this pandemic, and while most school boards across Kentucky have lifted mask mandates or at least made it optional, some continue to participate in Dr. Fauci's anti-science charade requiring children to wear masks. From the very...

Realism in foreign policy means that tactics and strategy change as the facts on the ground change. The best tools for deterring Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine are less relevant now that Russia has invaded.Prior to Putin's invasion, sanctions and threats of an...

Marie Thompson was sentenced to death in 1904 for the crime of resisting the tyranny of Jim Crow. She was not afforded an opportunity to defend herself in a court of law, nor was her constitutional right to due process recognized. Her sentence was not imposed by an...

Soon President Biden will have the privilege of nominating someone to the Supreme Court, a privilege Presidents often do not have the opportunity to partake in as Supreme Court Justices hold lifetime appointments.The appointment to the highest court in the land is a...

It appears we're entering the phase of the pandemic when even the pettiest of tyrants are beginning to see the absurdity of their mandates. But don't give them full credit just yet. With the public pressure mounting and tolerance for bureaucratic edicts waning, they...

As the author or co-sponsor of more than two dozen criminal justice reform bills, I have a long history of working with Democrats to correct injustice in our system, especially as it pertains to those accused of non-violent crimes such as drug possession.The right to...

According to tradition, King Menes united the two lands of Egypt about 5,000 years ago. Although Egypt appears as a single state on the globe today, American foreign policy still treats the country as though it was two completely different lands; one a critical ally...

It is no secret that I have had a lot of foreign policy disagreements with the bipartisan War Caucus in Washington D.C. during my time in office. From Iraq to Syria, and Yemen to Afghanistan, it seems that there is always a war they want to be in.I was heartened when...