Even in a limited security role, ICE has triggered backlash abroad, reflecting the agency’s unpopularity at home and overseas.
By looking to the past, Democrats could chart a pro-freedom blueprint for their party’s future.
Blowing up boats won’t stop drugs—but it could sink Trump.
The Trump administration’s urban enforcement push is blurring the line between border control and domestic policing.
The Commerce Department’s new antidumping duties could double the cost of imported Italian pasta—hurting consumers more than producers.
Nonpartisan ballots and small electorates create openings where party identity fades and community ties decide outcomes.
The DHS is claiming the right to scan people without their consent—and that's just part of its growing cache of surveillance tools.
A newly revealed Pentagon directive instructs every state to train riot-control units within their National Guards—raising questions about federal overreach and the growing militarization of domestic emergencies.
After 51-year-old Lamont Mealy was found dead in a Maryland prison cell, officials called it “natural causes.” His family’s lawsuit says guards intentionally shut off his water.
Trump’s presidency may have amplified executive power, but unless lawmakers roll back those powers—and the bloated government behind them—the next administration will do the same.
The decision “erodes core constitutional principles, including sovereign States’ control over their States’ militias and the people’s First Amendment rights,” Judge Susan P. Graber warned in her dissent.
These two campaigns won’t break the system—but they hint at a country finally ready to try.
“We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them,” the Georgia congresswoman said.
A new White House budget memo frames shutdown furlough pay withholdings as fiscal restraint, but the budgetary impact is minimal—the greater effect may be expanding executive control over the federal bureaucracy.
Lawyers at America's largest civil liberties group say the agency’s lack of transparency violates federal disclosure requirements.
The president’s movie tariff proposal faces several legal and logistical challenges to implementation.
Echoes of Trump's 2020 delusions are reborn in blue.
Lawsuits against Oregon and Maine test how far the federal government can go in demanding access to voter information.
The latest ruling reminds us that terrorism statutes are mostly redundant.
Department of Veterans Affairs
What began as a simple hospital project has become yet another example of bureaucratic failure at the Department of Veterans Affairs
Trump’s federal takeover of D.C. was just one example of Republicans curbing local autonomy under the banner of public safety.
A billion-dollar rebrand won’t change the fact that defense hasn’t meant defense in decades.
Minnesota's proposed firearm restrictions raise serious constitutional questions—and offer little in return.
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