The Insurrection Act, Which Trump Keeps Threatening To Invoke, Is Alarmingly Vague and Broad
The antiquated statute arguably allows the president to deploy the military in response to nearly any form of domestic disorder.
The antiquated statute arguably allows the president to deploy the military in response to nearly any form of domestic disorder.
Plus: Threats of new tariffs on NATO allies, masked federal agents stir unrest in Minnesota, and Trump’s new health care proposal.
The state requires carry permit holders to obtain advance permission before bringing firearms into businesses.
The multiethnic, anarchist-inspired experiment seems to be over.
America's large and growing national debt is not just a budgetary liability, but increasingly a geopolitical one too.
FIRE condemned the police visit: "This blatant overreach is offensive to the First Amendment."
Threatening European allies to further tax American citizens is unlikely to persuade them to surrender Greenland to the United States.
Plus: The Trump administration wants to roll back "disparate impact" regulations, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to roll back environmental review regulations, and L.A. waives fees for wildfire rebuilds.
A plurality of Americans now say they'd like to end the agency.
It’s not just the World Cup and the Olympics—baseball, basketball, and other sports are getting hit too.
I didn’t really understand the power of Medical Aid in Dying until I received my terminal diagnosis.
The problem is not that revolution is bad or that some cultures can’t rule themselves—it’s that social engineering is hard.
The president's son also claims destroying cocaine boats somehow reduces fentanyl overdoses, echoing his father's confusion.
The order imposes duties on China-bound AI chips if chipmakers don't invest in American semiconductor fabrication.
Todd Blanche joins other top administration officials in declaring that ICE agent Jonathan Ross was justified in killing Good. Most Americans disagree.
Empowering patients is good. Let’s give them a lot more choice and independence.
Excluding generative AI from Section 230 could stymie innovation and cut off consumers from useful tools.
The constitutionally anomalous status of broadcasting invites government meddling.
Gov. Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill mandating two-person subway crews, but union contracts and bipartisan support ensure New Yorkers will keep paying for them anyway.
A delightfully chaotic episode of Freed Up where the hosts discuss how Minnesota wine moms have taken to the streets and the Star Wars prequels somehow end up on trial—again
DHS tells officers to use "de-escalation tactics," employ "a verbal warning" instead of force when feasible, and avoid "placing themselves in positions" that trigger the use of deadly force.
The incident raises more questions about federal agents' use-of-force policies and training.
The Department of Health and Human Services is launching a study apparently trying to find otherwise.
Despite a new state law protecting childhood independence, child welfare officials accused these Atlanta parents of neglect—and put their family under surveillance.
Politically-motivated firings and increased executive branch scrutiny set “a dangerous precedent,” warns a former archivist of the United States.
A zombie movie where mystical evil turns out to be a blonde guy named Jimmy.
The AI boom is showing the limits of our regulated monopoly model for generating electricity.
Residents of the chilly island coveted by President Trump favor independence—and subsidies.
The new Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream in Washington, D.C., sidesteps its founder's complicated history.
The real squeeze comes from government-distorted markets, not economic decline.
The administration's written policies make it likely that more people like Renee Good will be targets, and victims, of ICE.
Their trade group filed a petition asking the government to impose quotas and a 50 percent tariff on all imported quartz.
This foolish, unnecessary, bellicose idea is running up against the "Lizardman's Constant."
Plus: School integration, retribution for Iran, death to credentialism, and more...
Plus: Still waiting on the tariffs case.
Vice President J.D. Vance on the nature of power
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