The U.S. trade deficit grew to $88.6 billion in July, a 24% increase from June, as the country imported goods to fuel the artificial intelligence boom and President Trump worked to rebuild his tariff framework after legal setbacks.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday he misspoke a day earlier when he described the Iran war as an "economic chokeout" in which no U.S. service members had died.
On this episode of "The Sitdown with Alex Swoyer," host Alex Swoyer sits down with Alex Adams, Assistant Secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, marking his first year in office -- covering Head Start reform, the "orphan tax," foster care shortages, migrant children and more.
DHS did it again. Six months after wrongly deporting a teen migrant to El Salvador despite a court order prohibiting his removal -- and less than one month after un-deporting and bringing him back -- the Department of Homeland Security admitted to a federal judge that it has now deported the 19-year-old a second time.
Last September, the Washington Examiner published an abolitionist case against the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the other self-regulatory organizations Congress has empowered. It argued that SROs are an “administrative state inside the administrative state”: opaque, unaccountable private bodies exercising powers that belong in government. Less than a year later, the Trump administration is reportedly […]
It must be nice to have complete control over what goes in your backyard. President Donald Trump certainly believes he has that power. Just look at the UFC venue he had built in the South Lawn, and the giant construction project where the East Wing used to be. Meanwhile, his administration is seeking to end […]
At the United Nations Security Council on Monday, the United States proposed what Sudan’s war urgently requires: extending the U.N. arms embargo from Darfur to the entire country and explicitly bringing drones and related technologies within its scope. The existing measures expire on Sept. 12. The Council must act now; the case is overwhelming. Start […]
The Trump administration’s recent recommendation to strip the American Bar Association of its near-monopoly power to accredit law schools is not a partisan overreach. It is a long-overdue reckoning with an organization that has abandoned its core duty: enforcing standards that protect equal opportunity, academic freedom, and nondiscrimination. An organization I founded, S.A.F.E. Campus, formerly […]
There is more than one way to erase a country. Sometimes you simply change the vocabulary. A former political territory becomes two administrative regions. A constitutional conflict becomes an “Anglophone crisis.” A question of consent becomes a problem of decentralization. An unresolved political dispute becomes primarily a humanitarian disaster. That, in my judgment, is part […]
President Donald Trump’s case against the federal bureaucracy rests on a simple observation: It is slow, it is unaccountable, and it is nearly impossible to fire. Voters agreed. His administration’s answer has been to shrink it, speed it up, and, increasingly, automate it. That diagnosis is right. The last part is happening faster than most […]
