Trump Threatens Another Federal Takeover of D.C. While Planning Memphis Crackdown
Trump’s emergency order in the nation’s capital expired last week, but he has already rolled out a plan to crack down on crime in Memphis.
Trump’s emergency order in the nation’s capital expired last week, but he has already rolled out a plan to crack down on crime in Memphis.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised that the federal government would reimburse the state for the costs of "Alligator Alcatraz," but doing so would make the detention facility subject to environmental reviews Florida ignored.
The alleged shooter was turned in by his family and roommates while the surveillance state remained clueless.
Crackdowns on AI chatbots over perceived risks to children's safety could ultimately put more children at risk.
George Retes was denied access to an attorney, wasn’t allowed to make a phone call, was not presented to a judge, and was put in an isolation cell before being released with no charges.
The expenditures are often costly privileges for special interests that mask the true size of government and fail to deliver the promised bang for the buck.
Selling just a fraction of the land would reduce our enormous debt.
Nixon's director of the Office of Economic Opportunity set out to shrink government, mostly failed, and was gone in less than a year. Sound familiar?
The U.S. is risking its liberty and its prosperity with such high tariffs.
The Justice Department has proposed a pathway to restore gun rights for millions of Americans.
The administration says the country faces complete destruction if it's forced to pay back money it hasn't yet received.
With government agencies turned into partisan weapons, trust is a tribal matter.
Trump went "beyond the authority delegated to the President," the court ruled, but it vacated an injunction that could have provided immediate tariff relief to American businesses.
RFK Jr. has had a crazy week. It will not be his last, alas.
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Or will the justices say that Trump fired her for illegal reasons?
The use of government force to achieve political advantage is dangerous and sets a bad precedent.
Perversely, distrust may encourage the government to grow bigger and more intrusive.
And a lot of those were for drug possession, gun possession, and other minor offenses.
A video by the White House corroborates that account, calling into question just how serious the president is about actually addressing crime.
The latest escalation in the showdown between the Trump administration and D.C. elected officials
Checkpoints for general crime control are illegal and smack of a police state.
A rushed attempt to regulate artificial intelligence has left lawmakers scrambling to fix their own mistakes.
Despite an apparent drop in the city’s violent crime, President Donald Trump announced a “public safety emergency” in D.C., deploying 800 of the city’s National Guard and over 450 federal law enforcement officers.
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya defends open disagreement, criticizes groupthink, and argues that democracy depends on our ability to speak and listen across political and scientific divides.
The case is a baffling reminder that the more power a government official has, the harder it is for a victim to get a shot at justice.
Immigration officers are using more forceful tactics to keep up with the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals.
Federal overspending is squeezing states and cities, forcing them to raise taxes, slash services, or pile on more debt.
We still need real tax reform and much lower federal spending.
Air traffic control is simply too important to leave up to the politicians.
The twist underscores just how little accountability exists in civil forfeiture, which allows law enforcement to seize assets without charging the owner with a crime.
This “public health” position has long been a sinecure for professional activists.
To keep Social Security solvent without cutting benefits would require a massive hike in payroll taxes, which would fall entirely on working Americans.
Nobody complained about the company, so federal bureaucrats launched their own crusade.
Yale’s Jacob Hacker and Sesame’s David Goldhill debate a government-run health insurance plan.
Collections represented a surge in imports trying to beat higher rates—with a slump to follow.
Historian John Lisle uncovers how Cold War paranoia, LSD, and unchecked power led the CIA to fund torture, deception, and mind control experiments on unwitting Americans.
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After criticizing the agency for being ineffective for months, the Trump administration now plans to reform it to supplement state disaster response efforts.
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Congress should now turn its attention to abolishing the unnecessary federal education bureaucracy.
A New Deal–era program nearly eradicated the sacred Navajo-Churro sheep—and still reverberates through the Navajo Nation today.
Officials at the border have the power to paw through sensitive data on your phone.
We’ve made government so powerful that people will fight rather than surrender control to the enemy.
But that's not what the law says.