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Trump’s tracking of AI chip shipments exposes flaws in his export control
President Donald Trump has sought to get an edge on China's tech market by not only blocking American firms from selling artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China, but also tracking these companies' shipments to…
The human rights crisis in ICE detention centers
In early August, the number of people in immigration detention in the U.S. surged to an all-time high of more than 60,000. Behind that number is an incipient human rights crisis. While the Trump administration waited for…
Federal agents start clearing out D.C. homeless encampments
Federal deployment in D.C. continues: Starting at around 9 p.m., FBI and Secret Service agents arrived in D.C.'s Foggy Bottom to remove a few tents from a homeless encampment. "We were told that there would be a…
Trump’s firing of the BLS director is ‘banana republic’ behavior
I grew up in the 1970s in and around one of the "safest" big cities in the United States, Philadelphia. That might be news to you given the City of Brotherly Love—now a relatively placid place—was known during that…
The Battle Over USAID Spending Continues
Yesterday the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals decided the case of Global Health Council et al. v. Trump et al. on a 2-1 vote. The case arose out of the freeze on U.S. Agency for International Development…
It’s Hard For DOJ to Get Good Help
The Left’s “resistance” to democracy comes in considerable part from government bureaucrats. Usually that resistance takes the form of undermining the implementation of conservative policies. But sometimes bureaucrats get…
Trump administration plans to tax more American companies on overseas sales
On Monday, President Donald Trump granted American chipmakers Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) export licenses for their scaled-down graphics processing units (GPUs) in exchange for 15 percent of the companies'…
How culture wars and budget cuts are undermining America’s scientific future
There is currently a two-pronged attack on higher education, research, and scholarship in the United States. Activists inside universities have hijacked many administrative functions, and significant reform is needed to…
Wholesale prices surge as tariff costs hit U.S. producers
A key indicator of coming inflation is flashing bright red right now—and tariffs are likely a big part of the reason why. Department of Labor data released Thursday morning showed a spike in wholesale prices across the…
Trump’s stepped-up law enforcement crackdown in D.C. continues
D.C.'s stepped-up law enforcement continues: Last night, a somewhat predictable scene broke out between Homeland Security officers doing a traffic checkpoint at 14th and W streets NW and protesters, who shouted "Go…
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