Alex Nowrasteh American identity is based on belief in a broad creed, not on ethnicity, religion, or ancestry. That point should be uncontroversial. Yet...
David J. Bier In March, the US government deported—or more accurately, rendered—about 240 Venezuelans from the United States to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison...
Matthew Cavedon On April 23, 2021, the City of Marco Island installed automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) at each of the three bridges connecting...
Mike Fox In 2023, Charles Foehner, a 65-year-old retired doorman and firearms collector, found himself in an unimaginable scenario. While walking to a Queens, NY,...
Michael F. Cannon The “fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota,” reports the New York Times, “was staggering in its scale and brazenness.” Dozens of Minnesotans...
Jeffrey A. Singer With Secretary of War Pete Hegseth embroiled in controversy over the extrajudicial killings of alleged drug smugglers operating a small, short-range...
Walter Olson President Donald Trump continues to use his pardon powers in remarkable ways. Now he has pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández,...
Romina Boccia Ending the government shutdown restored benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), but it also highlighted a broader issue in welfare...
Walter Olson Donald Trump’s most infamous pardons are those he issued to January 6 rioters, which extended clemency to every wrongdoer, no matter how...
Jeremy Horpedahl In the summer of 2024, a passage from J.D. Vance’s memoir Hillbilly Elegy gained widespread attention on social media platforms, including X/Twitter. Vance described...