Federal government
How involuntary commitment could become indefinite detention
In July 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order vowing to end "crime and disorder on America's streets" caused, the administration asserted, by the record number of homeless people, many of them…
Deploying troops to U.S. cities cost half a billion dollars in 2025
After threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to put down sometime-violent protests in Minneapolis with military force, President Donald Trump appears to have backed off, standing-down the troops slated for deployment.…
Free nations don’t have to care about the whims of elected officials
The freer the nation, the less the public needs to care about anything that its leader might say or do. In freer nations, the leader's powers are strictly limited, and the citizens' rights are protected. Yet in…
Tom Homan isn’t the solution to Trump’s immigration mess
President Donald Trump has tapped border czar Tom Homan to clean up the mess in Minneapolis. Unfortunately, for both the administration and Americans in general, Homan is not the solution. That's due, in part, to the…
Border patrol agents killed Alex Pretti. Why are they in Minneapolis at all?
Over the weekend in Minneapolis, agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) shot and killed bystander Alex Pretti. It was the second time a federal officer killed a protester in Minneapolis in the month of January,…
Democrats plan to block DHS funding after the Alex Pretti killing. Republicans should join them.
After federal immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, in Minneapolis on Saturday, Senate Democrats say they will block a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which includes…
DHS promises to investigate Pretti shooting but has prejudged the outcome
Hours after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot 37-year-old Minneapolis protester Renee Good on January 7, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Good was engaged in…
Bureau of Land Management obstructs plans for Montana bison reserve
An ambitious and privately funded project to create a 5,000-square-mile prairie reserve where buffalo may roam and antelope play in eastern Montana is being stymied by an obtuse new ruling by the Bureau of Land Management…
Flying is better today—even if old air travel photos look more luxurious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tk90hxlhws Sixty years ago, commercial air travel was nothing like how it is today. Nostalgia for the days of more spacious cabins, dressier passengers, and luxury food service is a common…
Support for abolishing ICE surges after fatal shooting and raids
Donald Trump was reelected to the presidency in 2024 after pledging to carry out the "largest deportation operation in American history." In the first year of his second term, he followed through on his promise,…
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