Guerrillas forced the applicant to cook and clean for them, after killing her husband.
Despite the administration's claims to the contrary, it appears that no such thing exists. Its absence strengthens the constitutional case against the travel ban.
Restricting guns-or vans, knives, or planes-won't make the world safer. The Toronto van attack reminds us peril lies in people with bad intent, not with how they get it done.
A new Cato Institute study finds that screening of visitors, immigrants, and refugees is about as thorough as can reasonably be expected.
The case against Noor Salman, Omar Mateen's wife, was built on shaky grounds.
A political battle following the San Bernardino attack was the result of an attempt to make a test case.
On trade, foreign policy, and so much more, he's Clinton, Bush, and Obama without the charm and respect. That can be a good thing.
The USS Cole defense team came to believe their meetings with their client were being bugged.
Senators want to use secret, largely unaccountable government watchlists as a justification for denying some citizens' due process.
The way to achieve peace is not to prepare for war but to reject militarism and empire, and embrace nonintervention.
And yet we supposedly need Gitmo because civilian courts aren't up to the task.
Jeffrey Toobin's book on the kidnapped heiress was a mess. This telling is much better.
The Pentagon must give the ACLU an opportunity to contest any proposed transfer before it happens.
The GAO says the TSA doesn't do a good job of putting its resources where the threats are.
The concern about radicalization by Muslims in the U.S. is a red herring intended to make Americans distrust foreigners and immigration in general.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2004 that Americans get due process when accused of terrorism, and yet...
The threat of domestic terrorism is frequently used to crack down on dissent.
Politicians have too much faith in background checks and extreme vetting as defenses against terrorism and mass shootings.
It is hard to see how anyone could have predicted Sayfullo Saipov's seven-year journey from eager immigrant to Islamic terrorist.
Carla Gericke, of Free State Project fame, first immigrated to America thanks to the Diversity Visa Program.
The president has already called for eliminating the program.
Nevertheless, officials want to see the law expanded.
Reluctance to use the T-word after mass killings can be routinely found whether perpetrators are white or brown.
The president did not need Venezuela and North Korea to make his order constitutional.
There has been a tremendous residual cost in freedom and in dollars to secure an elusive security.
Homegrown or foreign, Antifa is a major challenge to the liberty we cherish.
How many people will die for Donald Trump's mistaken belief that only "political correctness" is holding America back from victory?
The great disrupter of the establishment turns out to be-surprise, surprise-a man of the establishment.
The president's latest flip-flop is total and appalling. Will it finally alienate his base?
"It wasn't slowing down at all. It was just going straight through the middle of the crowds."
State and local governments have made it possible for cops to largely act with impunity.
Did the president really need a teachable moment to denounce neo-Nazis?
The rhetorical use of the term "terrorism" leads to erosions of civil liberties and poor policy making.
The president's Warsaw speech takes a paranoid view of internal threats while downplaying the central role that international exchange has played in the rise of the West.
A certain amount of danger is unavoidable in a multinational world. And the dangers of trying to achieve total security are the worst dangers of all.
Irrational, half-baked anti-terrorist policies are not necessarily unconstitutional.
Beware the precautionary tales of the left and the right.
An appeals court upholds an injunction against the president's travel ban but once again leaves him perfectly free to improve screening.
Security threats don't excuse the abolition of due process.
Intent on blocking visitors from Muslim-majority countries, the president confuses political incorrectness with seriousness.
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Nick Gillespie, Andrew Heaton, Katherine Mangu-Ward, & Matt Welch on terrorism, climate change, Bill Maher, Kathy Griffin, Evergreen, and more.
Using fear of terrorists to try to control what you can see online
The president's counterterrorism policy confuses political incorrectness with seriousness.
Certain guarantees of security are simply impossible in a free society, and the more we widen the net of suspects via mass surveillance, the more impossible true protection gets.
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