The Rhetorical and Substantive Limits of Trump's American Greatness
The president talks a good game about driving into the future, but his eyes are glued to the rear-view mirror.
The president talks a good game about driving into the future, but his eyes are glued to the rear-view mirror.
Occupational licensing programs deprive people of livelihoods and often don't improve public health.
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt delivers the L.P.'s prebuttal to tonight's SOTU, while the L.A. Times asks whether Hewitt can "make a fringe party mainstream."
The president has devoted himself to a pointless, self-defeating project.
How big hotel chains became arms of the surveillance state.
The senator and presidential hopeful went to bat for dirty prosecutors, opposed marijuana legalization, and championed policies that endanger sex workers.
Plus: No, Virginia isn't making it legal to kill babies during labor, and why Millennials and Gen Z will rule 2020
The Super Bowl is around the corner and a popular sex trafficking myth is back.
The way the travel ban policy has been implemented both before and after the Supreme Court's decision further underscores the magnitude of the Justices' mistake.
Miller's enforcement-plus agenda is destroying Trump's presidency.
Sure, Trump and Congress have reopened Washington for three weeks, but congressional dysfunction and border-enforcement fantasia are with us for the long haul.
The shutdown rolls on, with no obvious solution in sight.
Pew survey data complicate the young/old and left/right framing of this issue.
The president's latest Twitter scare tactic to drum up support takes moments to disprove.
The commerce secretary's phony rationale for adding a citizenship question is inconsistent with the rule of law.
The op ed describes the extensive harm likely to be caused by condemning the large amounts of private property that would need to be seized to build the wall.
Some members of Congress still care about private property.
The Washington Examiner story relies on a single, anonymous source who has no evidence to support her claims. It serves only to confirm existing biases.
The event features Ilya Shapiro of the Cato Institute, and myself.
We don't even know exactly how many.
The supposed border "crisis" is already solving itself.
The ACLU blames local law enforcement after ICE detains an American-born veteran with the intent to deport him.
Federal officials are doing their best to criminalize No More Death's efforts to stop immigrants from dying while crossing into the U.S.
The Trump administration can't ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, Judge Jesse Furman ruled.
Rebutting Krugman, cracking on Graham, and searching in vain for "freedom" in a caucus.
Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and other major Republicans are spreading misinformation in support of the president's fixation on a border wall.
Tragedy alone is not justification enough for drastic measures.
All this anger about immigration (and a lack of sympathy for the poor people coming here) is not only cruel, but politically foolish.
The legislative branch is failing its basic constitutional duties, out of cowardly fear of a blustery president.
The Iowa congressman and his nativism are deeply at odds with the essential promise of America.
Give up your wall, Mr. President.
My book chapter on this subject from the "Cambridge Handbook of Classical Liberal Thought" is now available on SSRN.
Note: Undocumented immigrants are not wild animals.
Democrats' response did produce some good memes.
The president's Oval Office address was misleading.
An immigration primer about the figures that matter. And the ones that Trump makes up.
The president and his administration have a long track record of basing policy on dystopian falsehoods about terrorists and criminals streaming north.
Audits dating back to 2003 highlight a culture of mismanagement and misconduct.
It should lift the travel ban and bring them with it
He probably won't shut down the internet. But declaring a "national emergency" is a bad idea anyway.
Plus: The TSA mask is slipping and government shutdown goes on.
Whatever it is, it can't be good.
The #Resistance GOP mixes tonal civility with foreign-policy hawkishness and immigration amnesia.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office reluctantly turned over footage of shelter employees dragging, slapping, and pushing migrant children.
Democratic socialists prioritize economics first.