It is a striking graph. Among Democratic women over 65, fewer than half say the problems women face are due in large part to the behavior and actions of men, compared to just 16% of Republican women. But among women ages 18 to 29, the partisan divide is enormous: 66% of Democratic women blame men, […]
Diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives are fading under pressure from the Trump administration. Florida and Texas have dismantled DEI offices, while Georgia has barred mandatory DEI training and eliminated diversity statement requirements. Similar substantive and symbolic efforts, such as renaming, defunding, and slowly demolishing the DEI infrastructure, are underway in many other states. Although some […]
Automated license plate readers — high-speed cameras that capture the license plate information of each passing vehicle — are making headlines for all the wrong reasons. In Arkansas, recently released body camera footage shows a young couple with a small baby in the car being detained at gunpoint after an ALPR mistakenly flagged their vehicle […]
During a time when rising grocery costs, gas prices, and monthly rent are stretching family budgets more than ever before, it is paramount that we protect, preserve, and strengthen the one program that these citizens should be able to rely on: Social Security. For more than 70 million people, including retirees and disabled people, Social […]
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 […]
President Donald Trump’s affinity for tariffs is well known. For national trade policy, the executive branch also has quotas, license fees, and other mechanisms at its disposal. There’s a lot to admire regarding the administration’s renewed focus on trade. But it’s important to remember that not all imported products are created equal. This is especially […]
On May 15, Democratic House candidate Brad Lander stood before Friday prayers at the al Khoei Islamic Center in Jamaica, Queens, and introduced himself as a proud Jewish New Yorker. Then he told the room that Israel’s so-called “genocide” in Gaza was a desecration. That every Palestinian child there was as divine as his own […]
My brother spent a career in the Army Special Forces. My son graduated from West Point and flies Army helicopters. I have listened to two generations of family describe what happens when the people around them on a deployment do their jobs, and what happens when they do not. Specialist Winston Hencely learned that lesson […]
The American Civil Liberties Union is turning America’s own justice system against us — and keeping Khalid Sheikh Mohammed from paying the price for...
