Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has made commercial-driver safety a major priority, tightening the rules governing non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses and requiring more reliable verification that foreign-domiciled drivers are legally eligible and qualified to operate enormous commercial vehicles on American highways. That raises an important parallel question: If we care about who is operating an 80,000-pound […]
Working families and small businesses are already paying the price of higher interest rates. Mortgage payments are harder to afford. Car financing is more expensive. Business owners are paying more to borrow, invest, and hire. The Federal Reserve has a difficult job and price stability matters, but before it raises rates again, the threshold for […]
Our civil justice system rests on a simple premise: Every claim represents a real person, with a real injury, who chose to seek redress. When that premise fails, everyone pays, beginning with the people who were actually hurt. For decades, the fight over lawsuit abuse has centered on what happens once a case is underway: […]
I run a nonpartisan think-tank, so, for the most part, I don’t offer public opinions because that’s the nature of the job. I’m taking a break from those duties today to let the Albanian Kosovar refugee take the keyboard. The ruling on Sept. 16 by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a project run by The Hague, […]
When a government raids LGBT organizations, arrests activists, silences advocates, and invokes religious doctrine to justify persecution, America’s LGBT movement should be among the loudest voices demanding accountability. So, where is the outrage over Turkey? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is no longer merely attacking LGBT rights rhetorically. His government is putting that ideology into […]
Battleground Republicans across the country are on defense as ICE operations keep finding their way into local headlines.A flurry of ICE activity in four...
Trump told officials that anyone in the country illegally remains "on the table" for arrest and deportation after internal ICE guidance caused confusion.
2019—Federal district judge Ketanji Brown Jackson issues a nationwide injunction (in Make the Road New York v. McAleenan) barring the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing its...
