The Reason Roundtable Live in D.C. on February 4!
Stephen Miller's Hardline Immigration Tactics Are Backfiring
Miller says he’s waging a war for America. Americans see a brutal war on them.
Scott Bessent Says Construction Jobs Are Booming Under Trump's Tariffs. Government Data Show the Opposite.
Meanwhile, Trump is touting low gas prices, which are due in part to the lack of tariffs on oil and gasoline.
Alex Pretti's Earlier Scuffle With ICE Doesn't Justify His Death 11 Days Later
Video of that scuffle does show that federal agents can manage to not shoot even violent protestors.
Group Chats About ICE Whereabouts Are Protected Speech. The FBI Is Investigating Anyway.
FBI Director Kash Patel pays lip service to the First and Second Amendments while casting suspicion on people who exercise their First or Second Amendment rights.
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
Latest
Ice, ICE…Maybe?
Plus: Trump accounts, Klobuchar runs for governor, and who wants to buy CNN now?
Trump Says States Are Required To Enforce Federal Immigration Laws. He's Wrong.
"The Framers...designed a system in which the State and Federal Governments would exercise concurrent authority over the people," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia.
The Killing of Alex Pretti Is a Reminder That All State Laws Are Backed Up by Violence
If enforcing a law isn't worth killing someone over, it probably shouldn't be a law.
D.C. Public Schools Still Closed as City Struggles To Clear Roads and Sidewalks
As the district's struggle to clear snow drags on, the case for public infrastructure maintenance becomes weaker.
TikTok Users Say They're Being Censored After New Owners Were Announced. The Company Says It's a Tech Issue.
Here's why I believe TikTok.
Podcast
The Real Reason You Pay for NFL Stadiums
Economist J.C. Bradbury breaks down why taxpayer-funded stadiums are a bad idea, how team owners market them to politicians, and why another stadium building boom may be coming.
The Real Reason You Pay for NFL Stadiums
Economist J.C. Bradbury breaks down why taxpayer-funded stadiums are a bad idea, how team owners market them to politicians, and why another stadium building boom may be coming.
Watchdog Contradicts DHS Story
Plus: Stephen Miller tries to distance himself, Ilhan Omar attacked, and more...
After Alex Pretti's Death, the Administration Signals a Shift on Immigration Enforcement
Wider reform is needed in the way the government enforces its laws.
Alex Pretti's Death Widens a Split Between Trump and Gun Rights Groups
Federal officials suggested that carrying a firearm is inherently threatening and an invitation to police violence.
Border Patrol Agents Started the Scuffle That Led to Alex Pretti's Death
As with Renee Good, a calmer response could have avoided the lethal outcome.
Katie Miller Thinks Classical Liberalism Is Woke Leftism. She's Wrong.
How are the Millers going to defend Western civilization if they don't know the name of its defining philosophy?
Trump Issues Order Cracking Down on Corporate Homeownership
The president's order is not the comprehensive ban on large investor–owned housing that he promised. But it could still have a chilling effect on the single-family rental market.
Tom Homan Isn't the Solution
Homan is a bully with little regard for rights or the rule of law. And the problems with Trump's immigration tactics point back to the White House itself.
A Dying Woman Found Peace With Mushrooms. Most Americans Aren't Allowed That Option.
A new film tells the story of a cancer patient’s quest to confront the existential angst of dying by taking magic mushrooms.
It's OK To Use Sports as an Escape From Politics
We don’t have to treat everything as political, even if politics has a meddlesome hand in everything.
The New York Times Is Trying To Rebrand Venezuela's New Dictator as a Serious Thinker
The paper mistook enforcement collapse for market reform, and now their "cosmopolitan technocrat" is Venezuela's dictator.
Bovino Put Out To Pasture
Plus: Vance gets Kamala'd, positioning aircraft carriers near Iran, and more...
The Feds Who Killed Alex Pretti Are Heavily Shielded From Being Sued. Blame the Supreme Court for That.
It is nearly impossible to sue a rights-violating federal agent under current caselaw.
When Did Republicans Stop Caring About Gun Rights?
Plus: DHS escalation in Minnesota, Trump loses support on ICE tactics, and how politics influence the Oscar nominations
Border Patrol Agents Killed Alex Pretti. Why Is Border Patrol in Minneapolis at All?
Federal agencies have considerable authority outside their given jurisdiction, even when they don't have the training to match.
Trump Backpedals From Portraying Alex Pretti As a 'Domestic Terrorist' and 'Would-Be Assassin'
Although the president initially reinforced that plainly inaccurate narrative, his subsequent comments cast doubt on the initial justification for shooting the Minneapolis protester.
February/March 2026
Magazine
Mamdani Can't Ruin New York
Mayors come and go, but New York City remains fundamentally itself.
