The Department of Homeland Security unilaterally tore up a collective bargaining agreement it had signed with unionized TSA screeners in May 2024.
Subsidizing American farmers is not a valid justification for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The Department of Homeland Security is watching men who are mad they can’t get girlfriends.
The agency has not made air travel safer but it has made it costlier and more time-consuming to fly.
The IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act would provide outreach and training to Homeland Security Investigations staff.
Plus: a shaky bipartisan border deal, the looming Taylor Swift PSYOP, and the disappearance of the D.C. area's greatest landmark...
A reined-in TSA would be the sound of music to many Americans' ears.
Surveillance tech that isn't banned often becomes mandatory eventually.
Plus: Senate Republicans spar over TikTok and free speech, Americans can't agree on how to cut spending, and more...
Department of Homeland Security
Break it up into fewer, smaller agencies that are more accountable to pre-9/11 departments.
Surveilling American citizens without due process, separating undocumented children from their parents, the TSA—the DHS has been a failure.
Legislators will increasingly argue over how to spend a diminishing discretionary budget while overall spending simultaneously explodes.
Plus: Everyone loves conspiracy theories, against national rent control, and more...
The Real ID Act was passed in 2005. 17 years later, it's worth asking if it's finally time to scrap the law.
No, a big storm does not require big government.
Plus: The Respect for Marriage Act, the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, and more...
The department suffers “a dangerous combination of broad authorities, weak safeguards, and insufficient oversight.”
Plus: The EARN It Act advances, against climate despair, and more...
Plus: Psychedelic decriminalization efforts, how cities throttle small businesses, and more…
The agency is far more of a threat than the dangers from which it supposedly protects us.
History is repeating itself in ways that we, and our kids, will live to regret.
The new advisory “is not based on any actual threats or plots” but is purely a response to a “rise in anti-government rhetoric.”
Targeting “extremists” threatens civil liberties while increasing the stresses that lead to violence.
Adopting "counterinsurgency" tactics for use against wide swaths of Americans can only make the situation worse.
The federal government should prosecute those people who committed acts of vandalism or violence. However, we should be leery about giving the feds additional powers.
Government agents brutalizing people are in the wrong, whether or not we sympathize with those on the receiving end.
In "Operation Asian Touch," federal agents coerced suspected human-trafficking victims into sex acts. Local cops seized money and threw them in jail.
Plus: Santa Cruz decriminalizes shrooms, the feds target medical marijuana in Michigan, "the growing threat to free speech online," and more...
Longstanding discipline problems at DHS provide a glimpse of what fans of bigger government on the right and left would inflict on us.
Plus: Juul targeted for smoking cessation claims, federal budget deficit tops $1 trillion, and more...
Plus: The U.K. wants to be "the safest place in the world to be online," and Mike Gravel is running for president.
Plus: why Gary Johnson will be good for the Senate, "toxic culture" at the TSA, the dismissal of an anti-FOSTA lawsuit, and a new economic freedom index.
No curtain calls for any security theater performances.
Fearmongering responses at the idea that the feds don't need to run everything
Minneapolis is being transformed into a police state.
Department of Homeland Security
The fate of the popular adult ad platform remains unclear after a raid on Eros' North Carolina servers.
As America deals with terrorist attacks and mass shootings, DHS and the FBI are busy enforcing misdemeanor vice laws.
Security officials who fail every test thrown their way, plan to inflict the punishment for those shortcomings on airline passengers.
Secretary John Kelly wants you to know that the problem is you, not them.
Fifteen years later, we really do have "nothing to fear but fear itself"
Not everything can be a "top priority." We have to choose.
If convicted, the boy-an 18-year-old homeless refugee from Ghana-faces a mandatory minimum of 10 years in federal prison, with life imprisonment possible.
Five federal agencies and several California police departments worked for over a year to take down a site where sex workers advertised.
So terrorism is solved, right?
But... but... these ladies were "human trafficking" themselves!
From telling hotel workers to look for used condoms to shuttering escort sites to nation-wide stings, cops are going after prostitutes with new energy.
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