Thomas Massie has built a career out of refusing to nod along. The Republican congressman from Kentucky’s 4th District has become a stubborn anomaly in Washington: a libertarian‑leaning engineer who votes against wars, surveillance, sanctions, and emergency mega‑bills even when his own party demands unity. In an era when the United States projects power across the globe and deep into its own citizens’ lives, his lonely “no” votes have turned him into a kind of institutional heretic, one of th...

Thomas Massie has built a career out of refusing to nod along. The Republican congressman from Kentucky’s 4th District has become a stubborn anomaly in Washington: a libertarian‑leaning engineer who votes against wars, surveillance, sanctions, and emergency mega‑bills even when his own party demands unity. In an era when the United States projects power across the globe and deep into its own citizens’ lives, his lonely “no” votes have turned him into a kind of institutional heretic, one of th...