David J. Bier New nonpublic data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) indicate that the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions...
Walter Olson Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has used presidential power, both lawfully and otherwise, to overawe many of the alternative...
Jeffrey A. Singer The Food and Drug Administration approved a new injectable drug on June 18 that provides pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV, requiring...
Colleen Hroncich Should the Department of Education be shut down? Normally, I’m an easy yes on that question for several reasons: the federal government...
Jeffrey Miron Imagine a college campus where the Department of Education has no jurisdiction. No audits, no diversity mandates, no Title IX compliance offices. No...
Gene Healy For four months, President Trump has treated the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) as his personal, Oval Office “tariff button”—allowing...
Dominik Lett The White House has sent a special spending cut package to Congress requesting $9.4 billion in rescissions to foreign aid and federally funded media...
Alex Nowrasteh President Trump announced that he’s banning almost all travel and immigration from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea,...
Clark Packard and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon On June 3, President Trump signed an executive order doubling his bogus Section 232 “national security” tariffs on...
Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler Many American cities suffer from political corruption. We assembled 15 case studies to illustrate the many ways that local...