Afghan Refugees Stuck in Limbo as USRAP Suspension Defies Court Order
Afghan legal professionals face deadly threats, but a federal injunction and a last-minute boarding letter helped one family escape. Thousands more remain in limbo.
Afghan legal professionals face deadly threats, but a federal injunction and a last-minute boarding letter helped one family escape. Thousands more remain in limbo.
Courts stop DOGE from accessing Social Security Administration data and prevent Homeland Security from deporting Georgetown fellow Badar Khan Suri.
The Federal Acquisition Regulation requires the right for the government to terminate any federal contract "for convenience."
We can't be sure, and that's why due process matters.
More education dollars are funding more bureaucrats, who, by and large, are not improving student outcomes.
Border officials reportedly barred the academic from visiting Texas after finding anti-Trump messages on his phone.
The Trump administration has started a pattern of trying to deport legal residents over allegations of pro-terrorist views.
"Bad ideas have been making a comeback," the host of Conversations with Tyler tells Reason.
"Impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision," Roberts noted after Trump said federal judges who impede his agenda should be fired.
The removals challenge Humphrey’s Executor, a Supreme Court precedent that protects independent agency officials from political firings.
President Trump acts to remove two Democratic commissioners from the Federal Trade Commission. Litigation is likely.
The president is quickly wiping out his own accomplishments.
The rationale for deporting Mahmoud Khalil is chillingly vague and broad.
A Trump administration official admits that there is little specific evidence tying some deportees to any crime—and argues that the lack of evidence should be taken as proof of criminality.
The proposed list of countries for the "Muslim ban" reboot has been leaked. It includes a small Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas.
Plus: Texas midwife arrested for violating abortion ban, JFK files, Gaza bombings, astronauts finally rescued, and more...
The U.S. is back to bombing the Houthi movement.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the Trump administration wants to eliminate income taxes for those making $150,000 or less—an unprecedented shift with major consequences.
Plus: Democrats' filibuster hypocrisy, Trump bombs Yemen, March Madness, and more...
Dissidents resisting authoritarian regimes should be independent of the United States—and so should their media sources.
Trump’s tariffs will kill the global trade that makes the holiday’s cultural celebration possible.
Canada’s retaliation against Trump’s tariffs is wiping American alcohol off store shelves—and fueling an unexpected push to deregulate its own restrictive liquor laws.
Musk's fans and critics will keep debating whether DOGE is revolutionizing government or wrecking important institutions.
Passengers suing the TSA for First Amendment violations have had a rough time in court.
The proposed State Department policy would add to the irrational burdens that registrants face.
There is no "royal we" in the marketplace.
No, not even if you do it in a county that borders Mexico.
Syrian Kurdish rebels and the new Syrian government have agreed to reunite peacefully. The U.S. military may have helped broker the agreement.
The commission’s partisan “news distortion” probe is trampling the First Amendment to pressure the press.
Tariffs on steel and aluminum imports inflate the cost of electric vehicles.
Plus: Rate reductions, Apple encryption, the Mahmoud Khalil case, and more...
We rely on Canadian energy and lumber, and Canadians rely on our products. It's the proverbial win-win.
Environmental Protection Agency
“Environmental justice” has no place at a regulatory agency. But the EPA was already a problem.
The historian and podcaster joins us on the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 emergency to relive all the pandemic policy failures.
The cost-cutting initiative's calculation of "estimated savings" is mostly mysterious, and the parts we know about are riddled with errors.
It would make American consumers poorer and hurt American businesses without any promise of benefits.
Rep. Adam Smith (D–Wash.) thinks Democrats should return to their antiwar roots—and be open to negotiating with Russia.
Plus: "Is any criticism of the government a deportable offense?" and more...
The department laid off over 1,300 employees this week.
The move is part of a broader suite of deregulatory actions announced by the EPA Administrator, and is likely the least advisable item on the list.
The government's demands would reduce competition and harm consumer welfare.
Millions of people are barred from owning firearms even though they have no history of violence, and they have essentially no recourse under current law.
The cowardice of Congress will continue fueling the growth of executive power.
"I really haven't had anybody come up to me and say, 'Please, please, put tariffs on me,'" says Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.).
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Threats to impeach federal judges who rule against the government are a naked attack on their constitutionally crucial function.
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