Federal government
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,…
Does Section 230 protect AI?
We can thank Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act for much of our freedom to communicate online. It enabled the rise of search engines, social media, and countless platforms that make our modern internet a…
How the FCC became the speech police
In 1964, journalist Fred J. Cook published Barry Goldwater: Extremist of the Right, a 186-page attack on the Republican candidate in that year's presidential election. As economist Thomas W. Hazlett notes in his history …
California man blinded by federal officer during ICE protest
A 21-year-old has been left permanently blind in one eye after a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officer shot a nonlethal round into the protester's face during a January 9 protest in Santa Ana, California,…
The Minnesota fraud scandal is just the tip of the iceberg
Growing national outrage over Minnesota's welfare fraud is justified, but not because of where it took place or because it implicates members of any immigrant community. It's much more than a "Minnesota"…
Is it legal to record video of ICE agents?
The Trump administration believes you don't have the right to record Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in public. This stance is both factually wrong and an attempt to chill free speech by conflating it…
Polymarket returns to U.S. users after a nearly 3-year hiatus
Talk is cheap—but Polymarket lets you put your money where your mouth is. Nearly four years after being shut down by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the online betting company that allows you to stake money…
Rand Paul’s Festivus report highlights $1.6 trillion in wasteful spending
There are many traditions for ushering out the old year and ringing in the new, and among those to be enjoyed with a stiff drink and a sense of grim humor is Sen. Rand Paul's (R–Ky.) annual Festivus report on government…
DHS says REAL ID is too unreliable to confirm U.S. citizenship
Only the government could spend 20 years creating a national ID that no one wanted and that apparently doesn't even work as a national ID. But that's what the federal government has accomplished with the REAL ID,…
From Nixon to Trump, the ‘War on Drugs’ has been a disaster
The United States government first launched a War on Drugs on June 17, 1971, when President Richard Nixon declared: "America's public enemy number one…is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is…
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