Thomas Massie on Tax Reform, Shikha Dalmia on Deporting Americans
Listen to SiriusXM Insight (channel 121) from 9-12 AM ET as Matt Welch interviews Massie, Dalmia, Kevin Williamson, Bethany Mandel, and LSD enthusiast Daniel Miller
Immigration
Stossel: Who Owns Your Body?
John Stossel confronts a prostitute, a pimp and an anti-prostitution crusader.
Hate Crimes in 2016: New FBI Numbers Show Little Change
The data should help dispel fears of a Trump-induced surge in American hate crimes.
The Right's Retrograde Quest for a Homogeneous America
Enlisting a Harvard liberal can't whitewash the problems with an anti-diversity agenda.
After Neighbor Gets Deported, Local Police Chief Rethinks Support for Immigration Crackdown
"He was real pro-law enforcement," says Flint Wright, police chief in Long Beach, Washington.
How Immigration Crackdowns Screw Up Americans' Lives
The war on immigration has taken a great toll on unauthorized aliens, its targets. But it is also badly affecting Americans themselves, its intended beneficiaries.
Is Silicon Valley Building the Infrastructure for a Police State?
New AI tools could empower the government to violate our civil liberties.
The Right's Incredibly Shallow Argument Against Immigration and Diversity
It depends on misusing the research of a liberal academic
Murderers Slip Through the Screen
Politicians have too much faith in background checks and extreme vetting as defenses against terrorism and mass shootings.
Would Extremer Vetting Have Stopped This Week's Attack in Manhattan?
It is hard to see how anyone could have predicted Sayfullo Saipov's seven-year journey from eager immigrant to Islamic terrorist.
While Politicians Call for Restricting Freedom After NYC Attack, This Immigrant Has Been Fighting For Yours
Carla Gericke, of Free State Project fame, first immigrated to America thanks to the Diversity Visa Program.
Trump Judicial Nominees Oppose the Trump Administration on Civil Asset Forfeiture and Birthright Citizenship
In the 5th Circuit, it's shaping up to be Trump vs. Trump's judicial picks.
Feds Keeping Homeland Secure with Fake Sex-Trafficking Busts
As America deals with terrorist attacks and mass shootings, DHS and the FBI are busy enforcing misdemeanor vice laws.
What is the Diversity Visa Lottery Donald Trump is Blaming for Yesterday's NYC Attack?
The president has already called for eliminating the program.
Trump's Assault on Legal High-Skilled Immigration
He even wants to chase out foreign STEM students.
Feds Crack Down on New National Security Threat: Unlicensed Massages
Massage-parlor panic is crushing small businesses, civil liberties, and people's lives. Here are eight examples from October.
No Forced Childbirth for Undocumented Immigrant Teen in Federal Custody
This was a simple choice: Compel the girl to give birth or let her get an abortion. The fact that she is undocumented doesn't change that reality.
GOP Anti-Flake Anti-Trumpers Just Want Trumpism Without Trump
Trump is crass and abrasive and toxic? So are the policies he adopted for a base that establishment conservatives cultivated.
Welcome to 'Extreme Vetting' of Refugees
Social media fact-checks, secondary scrutiny for 11 countries, and the lowest annual cap in modern U.S. history.
Senate Could Make It Easy for FBI to Spy on Teen Sexters, Black Lives Matter, and Other U.S. 'Criminals'
FISA reauthorization would majorly expand use of warrantless digital surveillance data against Americans.
Feds 'Rescue' Women from Freedom and Money in 11th 'Operation Cross Country'
Hear from the real victims of this cruel FBI charade.
ICE Jails and Deports College Student for Offering Spanish Tutoring Lessons
Christina Alonso spent 48 hours in the United States, all of them in an Oregon jail.
Nativists in the Trump Administration Are Demanding Ransom for Dreamers
Congress shouldn't hand it.
Cases Dropped Against California Cops Accused of Statutory Rape, Prostitution With Police Dispatcher's Daughter
Judge says Bay Area cops accused of sex crimes might not have known that Oakland teenager "Celeste Guap" was underage.
There Aren't Enough Beds in This Virginia Jail for All the Women Caught in Heroin and 'Human Trafficking' Dragnets
"We don't have enough space for them," said sheriff.
The Trump Administration Wants to Holds Dreamers Hostage to Advance a Sweeping Restrictionist Agenda
Nativists have taken charge of immigration in the White House
Chinese Dissident Ai Weiwei Explores the Tragedy of the Refugee Crisis
The famed artist has a new public art project going up in New York City, which coincides with his debut feature film, Human Flow.
Libertarian Globalism Versus Economic Nationalism
What Donald Trump and his posse of economic nationalists get wrong.
Feds Give Americans the Frog Treatment
DHS looking to collect social media info from immigrants just the latest development in the surveillance society.
Trump's New Travel Ban: Mean and Senseless
It will do nothing to Make America Safe Again
Mom's Run-In with Alleged Sex Traffickers Goes Viral. But Nothing Happened.
It could happen to you, whatever "it" is.
Trump's Latest Travel Ban Is Just As Legal but Not Much Smarter
The president did not need Venezuela and North Korea to make his order constitutional.
Trump's New Travel Ban Is More Incoherent and Just as Useless As the Old
Throwing North Korea and Venezuela on the list doesn't make it less discriminatory or America more safe
Human-Trafficking Arrests Are Very Rare in Most States
The exceptions in 2016 were Minnesota and Texas, according to newly released FBI data.
Jeff Sessions to America: The Crime Fearmongering Will Continue Until Y'all Obey
The data don't match the attorney general's attacks on sanctuary cities.
California Poised to Block Police from Helping DHS Detain Immigrants—Sometimes
The bill offers many, many exemptions.
Dave Weigel on the Democrats' Bernienomics, Trump's DACA Switcheroo, and Hillary's Surprising Book
The Fifth Column interviews the ex-Reasoner about this week's political controversies
Wiretapping Sex Workers, Punishing Pre-Crime, and National Strategy to Stop Sex-Buyers Approved by Senate
Congress moves to grant Trump administration vast new policing powers, because "sex trafficking."
College Journalist Attacked for Not Being Visibly Non-Fascist Enough
We all knew the 'punch Nazis' thing would inevitably end up here.
Motel 6 Announces Plans to Stop Sucking
The chain will no longer allow voluntary sharing of guest information with ICE.
'I'll Tell You One Goddamned Thing for Sure. I'm Not Staying at a Motel 6 From Now On.'
Is the discount hotel chain ratting out undocumented immigrants to ICE?
At Least Have the Basic Courage and Decency to Call an 'Amnesty' an 'Amnesty'
Evasive language isn't helping solve our dysfunctional immigration system.
DACA Immigrants Shouldn't Be Punished for Obama's Hubris
Obama was wrong to act alone, but these peaceful, educated, assimilated immigrants should be an easy sell.
