Opinion

Every day, prosecutors across the country show up ready to do their jobs: enforce the law, protect communities, and hold offenders accountable. But when it comes to organized retail crime, they are increasingly confronting a sophisticated national and transnational criminal threat with inadequate tools designed for isolated local offenses. Organized retail crime has real consequences […]

A city’s true character is revealed in how it handles juvenile offenders. In Washington, D.C., recent years have shown a significant change in the prosecution of youth crime. Data from the D.C. Sentencing Commission, acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request, highlights these shifts.  Let’s start with the statistics. In the last year of the […]

Medicare Advantage is the way most Medicare recipients choose to get their coverage. That should impact nearly every public conversation about Medicare because debates that once sounded technical now land directly on the kitchen tables of millions of American seniors. If ever there was an issue that marries policy and politics, this is it. Medicare […]

In times of national crisis, communications are essential. Whether responding to a terrorist attack or a tragic natural disaster, first responders need a guaranteed method of connecting. That’s why few initiatives sit more squarely at the intersection of national security and public safety than FirstNet, a dedicated communications network for U.S. first responders and public […]

As the 250th anniversary looms, it is time to admit something. The American Revolution, however benign its consequences, was fueled by a conspiracy theory of QAnon proportions. The patriots, along with many British Whigs, convinced themselves that George III, that dim and dutiful dullard, was scheming to restore the monarchy to a level of autocratic […]

Washington is sending billions of dollars into Iraq while trying to contain Iran across the Middle East. Those two policies are colliding, and the United States is losing. For years, the U.S. has funneled billions of dollars into Iraq’s economy through oil revenue mechanisms tied to the Federal Reserve. The goal was stability: support Iraq’s […]

Approval ratings for Congress currently sit at an abysmal 16%, and it’s no wonder why: Last year, the federal government broke its record for longest continuous shutdown at 43 days. Today, a partial shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security has surpassed 69 days. Congress has an opportunity to regain the public’s trust by delivering […]

They warned us that the Democratic Socialists of America were coming to a town near you. I just didn’t realize it was going to be my town. In New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District — a region defined by manicured lawns, multimillion-dollar estates, and quaint bistros — Rep. Analilia Mejia (D-NJ), a radical Democratic socialist, cruised […]

When facts are stranger than fiction, pundits will say, “You can’t make this stuff up.” But actually, you can make this stuff up — that turns out to be the Left’s modus operandi. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a malignant organization that smears decent conservatives, has been caught red-handed — le mot juste — financing […]

Congressional Democrats are unilaterally and unprecedentedly refusing to pass a normal Department of Homeland Security spending bill. So, Republicans are taking an equally partisan approach to ending what’s now the nation’s single longest government shutdown. With President Donald Trump’s blessing, both Republican-controlled chambers of Congress are moving to fund DHS fully through the rest of […]

“Nobody knows the system better than me,” President Donald Trump crowed while accepting the Republican nomination in 2016, “which is why I alone can fix it. I have seen firsthand how the system is rigged against our citizens …” Only a corrupt New York City developer like him, Trump was arguing, could root the corruption […]