A federal judge has blocked New York's new law barring ICE officers from wearing masks while on duty in the state, but allowed another law that blocks localities from signing cooperation agreements with the deportation agency.

U.S. Special Operations Command chief Adm. Frank Bradley recently warned that troops must be careful about how artificial intelligence enters the delivery of military force. The harder question is no longer whether the Pentagon will use commercial AI, but who will control the software once it becomes part of a mission. The answer should be […]

The 340B drug discount program grew to an eye-popping $100 billion in drug sales in 2025, making it the largest government program most people have never heard of. Enacted under the Public Health Service Act to require drug manufacturers to provide outpatient drugs at steep discounts to safety-net hospitals serving low-income patients, 340B has metastasized […]

President Donald Trump is not a leader who thinks in shades of grey. He has sorted the United States’s allies, by and large, into two categories: those worthy of diplomatic energy and close military coordination, and those who are not. The European nations, excepting Poland, fall into the “not” box. The gung-ho Asian tigers — […]

In the past few days, we’ve witnessed the unsettling images of tens of thousands of Moroccans, young unemployed Muslim men, clambering over the barbed-wire fence border between Morocco and Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta. The images conjure up several ironies of Spanish history — a reverse “Reconquista” of Spain whereby Muslims avenge the final […]