Some illegal immigrants were kept in small metal cages for up to two hours while being detained at "Alligator Alcatraz," according to a federal inspector general's report on Monday.
Vice President J.D. Vance on Monday raised pointed suspicions about the motives behind Big Tech's growing calls for federal regulation of artificial intelligence.
President Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., enjoyed a lavish May wedding that was partially funded by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, according to a new report.
President Trump's attempt to rope the U.S. Postal Service into policing which ballots can and can't be mailed suffered another setback after a second federal judge issued a ruling halting the idea.
Former President Barack Obama is urging Democrats to make regulating artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” in this year’s elections, but when it comes to what exactly he wants Democrats to do policy-wise, he appears to have no answers. Not that Republicans seem to have much of an AI agenda either. This Sunday, House […]
One of the more curious developments of the artificial intelligence revolution is that its most visible political enemy has turned out to be a windowless warehouse filled with computers. Data centers, once infrastructure that interested few outside the tech industry and planning commissions, are becoming objects of intense opposition worldwide. But they are an avatar […]
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. […]
Last Tuesday, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband stood in Parliament and announced a ban on goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. In response, the Israeli government immediately announced that the British consulate in East Jerusalem, operating since the 19th century, would be closed. Nobody in London asked the roughly 18,000 Palestinians whose wages […]
Kansas City spent 45 years running a contracting program that its own hired consultant said the city couldn’t defend, then took two more months to admit it. On Aug. 13, the city council voted 12-0 to kill the Minority and Women Business Enterprise program and replace it with three tiers of race-neutral small business certification, […]
This year, we’ve witnessed a tidal wave of positive movement to protect children online with the avalanche of Big Tech legal cases, and Meta is facing some of the most significant consequences. Now Congress has the opportunity to turn that momentum into lasting, industrywide standards. Meta’s $17 billion settlement with more than 47 state attorneys […]
With the midterm elections just around the corner, healthcare and affordability will likely once again dominate the airwaves. There’s no shortage of ambitious reforms out there, yet Congress should start by focusing its attention on the biggest drivers of health spending in recent years: hospital systems. Between 2022 and 2024, hospital services represented 40% of […]
