A federal judge threw a wrench in the Department of Homeland Security's plans to scour the nation's truck drivers for illegal immigrants, ruling Tuesday that DHS' subpoena seeking information from states' driver's license databases was improper.
Ireland welcomed international officials to Dublin this week for a gathering devoted to combating antisemitism. According to the chairman of the Jewish Representative Council of Ireland, one hotel responded to the planned gathering by asking a revealing question: Would the Israel Defense Forces be involved? The question had nothing to do with the event. The […]
In their 1968 hit song “Revolution,” the Beatles’ John Lennon sang, “You say you got a real solution. Well, you know, we’d all love to see the plan.” This year, the Democratic Socialists of America published a plan. Much of its plan reads like it was lifted from Lennon’s most famous solo hit, “Imagine,” which […]
The United States cannot compete with China in Africa through occasional diplomatic visits and mineral deals alone. It needs a durable economic strategy that treats African countries as partners, not prizes. China’s rise in Latin America should have taught Washington a lesson that extends far beyond the Western Hemisphere: strategic influence is rarely built in […]
Critics of voter-roll enforcement love one line: This never happens. Federal prosecutors answered on Monday with 28 defendants. Operation Protect the Vote charges 28 green-card holders with allegedly registering or voting as citizens, and agents arrested 11. They’re presumed innocent, and they deserve their day in court. The rest of us deserve two things too: […]
Scratch a Polish antisemite, and you will find an anti-American. Scratch a Polish anti-American, and hostility to Israel soon surfaces. In little more than a week, Polish politics has offered three reminders, and only one came from the far Right. On Oct. 10, a Polish YouTube channel released recordings of Grzegorz Braun, a right-wing member […]
Several immigrants in California are being charged by the Justice Department with voter fraud because California has no real safeguards in its election and voter registration processes. At least 28 immigrants have already been federally charged with voter fraud, and 11 have been arrested. One man from Belize is accused of lying on his voter […]
On Oct. 25, Aleksandar Vucic’s ruling coalition will face Serbia’s student protest movement and established opposition parties at the ballot box. Vucic, who resigned as president in September to seek the premiership, wants to extend his Serbian Progressive Party’s 14-year hold on power. The danger extends beyond whether his party manipulates the vote. His government […]
