Federal government
Don’t count on the 25th Amendment to dethrone Donald Trump
In recent weeks, a growing number of Democrats and progressives have called on federal officials to invoke the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to remove President Donald Trump from office. Even some of Trump's…
Every modern U.S. president has spent more than the previous one
One of the most persistent and misleading fallacies in politics is that successive presidents represent a clear and decisive change in the direction of the country, especially when they are from different parties. Republican…
Informal censorship’ and jawboning violate this SCOTUS precedent
Two years after the U.S. Senate held hearings on the threat that comic books purportedly posed to American youth, a Rhode Island commission reported its findings on the subject to the state legislature. "After months of…
Federal regulatory compliance costs $2 trillion annually
Anybody who runs a business or engages in regulated activities knows that government red tape imposes a significant burden. Those burdens can be very high, deterring entrepreneurs from launching companies, restraining the…
What if Social Security was capped at $100,000 annually?
As Social Security careens towards insolvency in the early 2030s, policymakers and the American public will have to reconsider what the old-age pension program is meant to accomplish. Is Social Security meant to provide a…
Deaths in ICE custody hit a 20-year high in 2025
The first year of President Donald Trump's mass deportation effort has been filled with rights violations. Unsurprisingly, that militant approach has had deadly consequences. Out of public view, deaths in ICE custody hit…
Did the Supreme Court abolish nationwide injunctions?
You may have heard that the U.S. Supreme Court killed off the practice of nationwide injunctions, the practice where a federal judge stops a federal policy from going into effect everywhere in the country while a single…
Trump’s second term shows checks on executive power are insufficient
Karl Marx said that when history repeats itself, we're supposed to get tragedy first, then farce. But Donald J. Trump has spent his life flouting all the rules. Why should we expect him to obey the historical dialectic?…
The Republican plan to nationalize elections is performative nonsense
During my younger days as a soccer dad, I got to watch the variety of ways that people handled the inevitable wins and losses. The trophy my daughter won after a big championship game is packed in a box somewhere in the…
Revisiting the Church Committee Report in the Trump era
It's not a good sign when a 50-year-old Senate committee report on illegal government activities is relevant and timely enough for a new release. The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s…
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