In my recent analysis of the Trump administration’s proposed $20 billion strategic Bitcoin reserve, I argued that anchoring a national treasury to seized digital assets introduces severe systemic risks to the U.S. dollar. The article ignited an immediate, highly charged debate. Much of the sharpest pushback came directly from my own friends, colleagues, and professional […]
Our nation’s major metropolitan areas have detailed community response plans for hurricanes, forest fires, and other natural disasters. But in my decades in the field, I have noticed a worrisome gap: pre-disaster community planning for a nuclear event such as a terrorist plot. In 2010, President Barack Obama told the 47-country Nuclear Security Summit, “Two […]
Washington’s renewable energy mandates are making its electricity so expensive that the Council of the District of Columbia explicitly exempted its government buildings from being required to pay the costs of the regulations. Why should municipal buildings be exempt from a mandate that it imposes on residents, businesses, and federal taxpayers? We don’t think they […]
For six years, President Donald Trump has been trying to fix a problem almost nobody in Washington wanted to talk about: The United States hands out congressional seats partly on the basis of people who have no legal right to be there. This week, his administration attempted a major overhaul of the United States census […]
Congress has returned from its August recess, but not for long. The House will have just four voting days before members leave Washington to campaign for the November midterm elections. The Senate will remain somewhat longer, but little legislation of broad national consequence is expected to clear Congress before Election Day. None of this is […]
A quarter-century has passed since the morning the world fractured. For the educators standing at the whiteboard today, a daunting demographic threshold has been crossed. Every single student sitting in a K-12 classroom has no lived memory of Sept. 11, 2001. To them, the thick black smoke pouring from the twin towers is not cultural […]
Washington has spent years debating how the United States should regulate cryptocurrency. But as digital assets move deeper into the American financial mainstream, another question is emerging in federal court: Who gets to own the language of crypto innovation? A new lawsuit brought by Unicoin against Uniswap Labs puts that question squarely before the courts. […]
Congressional Republicans plan to bypass the Senate filibuster and pass the SAVE America Act's voter ID and proof of citizenship rules via reconciliation.
President Donald Trump rejected calls for AI guardrails and singled out Dario Amodei, as David Sacks challenged the industry's push to pace the frontier.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims the Trump administration is illegally expanding a rule that allows feds to deny green card and visa applications based on welfare status.
